[blindLaw] Do any of you use ZoomText or fusion?

Sanho Steele-Louchart sanho817 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 11:05:34 UTC 2021 

Agreed wholeheartedly. And I've reinstalled Windows twice to no effect. I'd be happy to learn another way. 

> On Jun 11, 2021, at 5:58 AM, Maura Kutnyak via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Outrageous! I feel vindicated, but no less angry. And it is amazing to hear that so many of you have also been feeling, crazy, in response to these issues. My machine is also a state sponsored active benevolence. Or malevolence.
> 
> I will keep this brief, but I have to come back to that feeling of, crazy. Throughout my epic journey with this laptop, every time I had to call tech-support, my local Center for assistive tech, I felt like everyone on the other end of the phone was baffled, and assuming that somehow the silly blind girl was pressing the wrong key commands. Likewise, if ever I needed to try and explain issues to professors because of interrupted workflow etc., I could never quite find the language. I despise feeling like I’m making excuses for problems that are entirely out of my control.
> 
> I will try to resist dropping another rant here. However, this is clearly a pattern. Somehow the unhealthy relationship with delland our VR agencies needs to change.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Maura Kutnyak, M.P.A.
> University at Buffalo 
> School of Law, J.D. 
> anticipated spring 2023
> 716-563-9882
> 
>> On Jun 11, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Heidi Contreras Ruiz via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I also have a dell with 16 gigabytes using jaws/NVDA and it  literally
>> has been  crashing 3 or 4 hours when using it. I thought I was going
>> crazy because I let a sited family member barro it and it wasn't
>> happening to them. So frustrating and I'm not even in law school yet!
>> 
>>>> On 6/11/21, Sanho Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Every. Single. Person I know who's had this issuehas had it on a Dell. It's
>>> so good to know I'm not just crazy. I mean, I might still be crazy, but at
>>> least this isn't a manifestation of it. Anyway, I've had the problem for a
>>> year. I finally got so sick of rebooting JAWS/NVDA every 30 minutes or so
>>> that I switched to a top-of-the-line computer, also from Dell. Same exact
>>> problems. IT has replaced and updated everything you can imagine in both
>>> machines. Still nothing. Both have 7 gigs of memory available both physical
>>> and virtual. Everything has been checked. And worst of all, when I loaned
>>> the weaker of the two machines to a sighted family member, it's never once
>>> acted up for her. It's 100% a screen-reader issue. There's something about
>>> these Dell machines that simply isn't working. Now try telling that to my
>>> state's VocRehab people.
>>> 
>>> Sanho
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 10, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Maura Kutnyak via BlindLaw
>>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have to chime in! this past year, my one L year, was peppered with
>>>> countless, infuriating, crashes and all other manner of bad behavior on
>>>> the part of my brand new, souped up, Dell. The motherboard was replaced.
>>>> The hard drive was replaced. And even still it is constantly acting up in
>>>> various ways.
>>>> 
>>>> Am I the only one who finds this to be outrageous? All I do is email, PDF
>>>> and Word document reading, and Internet searching of various shapes and
>>>> sizes. I feel like this is a failure on the part of the people who design
>>>> our software. They have a captive audience and they don’t care to make
>>>> tools that work right.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry, not wearing my objective, scholarly legal hat. This truly has been
>>>> the plague of my year, other than the actual plague that has beset us.
>>>> 
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> 
>>>> Maura Kutnyak, M.P.A.
>>>> University at Buffalo
>>>> School of Law, J.D.
>>>> anticipated spring 2023
>>>> 716-563-9882
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 10, 2021, at 5:09 PM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw
>>>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have had to upgrade my work laptop for this reason.  Google Chrome
>>>>> is a massive memory hog as well.  I've found that having too many
>>>>> Chrome tabs open and Jaws at the same time can cause a weaker machine
>>>>> to crash.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 6/10/21, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>> I use neither program. However, it could be a memory issue. If you have
>>>>>> multiple assistive software running, Word docs, browsers, and email,
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> can be quite demanding on the system. I have always added more memory to
>>>>>> help with the demands put on my work laptop, and I try to buy personal
>>>>>> laptops with generous solid state memory for the same reason.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Teresita Rios
>>>>>> via
>>>>>> BlindLaw
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 3:45 PM
>>>>>> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>> Cc: Teresita Rios <teresitarios22 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Do any of you use ZoomText or fusion?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [EXTERNAL]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I often get blue screens and lose some of what I was working on.
>>>>>> Sometimes I exit ZoomText and restart it, but just two nights ago I was
>>>>>> working on a mini note for a competition and it stopped working three
>>>>>> times
>>>>>> during the night, and crashed or a blue screen appeared right before I
>>>>>> wanted to turn my materials in. Do you think it is my Dell?
>>>>>> Is there anything I can do?
>>>>>> I take timed final exams and in all of them it just blue screened, and I
>>>>>> had
>>>>>> to force restart it.
>>>>>> I lost half of legislation and regulation. The good thing is that I save
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> soon as I finish a paragraph so for the others I lost time and not much
>>>>>> material.
>>>>>> Do you think that i also becaus I have a lot of Word docs opened at the
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> time?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:27 PM Sanho Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw <
>>>>>> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Teresita,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What do you mean by crashing? The more specific, the better. I may
>>>>>>> have had similar issues. In my case, it appears to be JAWS and NVDA
>>>>>>> being incompatible with the graphics drivers on my Dell laptops. The
>>>>>>> more I read, the more JAWS and NVDA lag, until they finally crash and
>>>>>>> take the Windows environment with them. The problem happens with two
>>>>>>> different machines with the same drivers and operating system, and it
>>>>>>> only started happening after a Windows update sometime last year. The
>>>>>>> only solution for me has been to restart my screen-reader before it
>>>>>>> crashes.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Warmth,
>>>>>>> Sanho
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 6/10/21, Teresita Rios via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello Friends.
>>>>>>>> This past year my computer started crashing a lot and acting glitchy.
>>>>>>>> finals were horrible. Have any of you had this constant crashing
>>>>>>>> problem with ZoomText and Fusion? Who did you contact? Because at
>>>>>>>> school they say my computer has the IO and hardware to handle it. so
>>>>>>>> we
>>>>>>>> are lost.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thank you!
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