[nabs-l] A Few More Questions About Windows 7/Jaws

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Kerri,
In IE 9, dialogs about saving vs. opening downloaded files and other
such notifications show up in a separate "notification bar". It is
accessible, but you have to press Alt-N to get to it. Sometimes JAWS
won't tell you there is a notification until you hit Alt-N, though, so
if you suspect there is a notification (i.e. you just clicked on a
link to download something) just press Alt-N to hear the notification.
When JAWS stops speaking on me, I usually do what you did-try closing
the window and then manually restarting if that doesn't work. This
shouldn't be happening a lot, though. If it does happen more than once
a day, you may want to get a sighted person to tell you what is
displayed on the screen next time JAWS freezes. When I first started
with Windows 7, I was getting these pop-ups asking if I wanted to
allow programs to make changes to my settings and these often
interfered with JAWS speech. I was able to have my sighted boyfriend
click on something to stop the notifications and the problem went
away, so I suspect it might be something like that or something with
your antivirus software or firewall that is blocking JAWS and causing
it to quit. Most of these things can be permanently disabled with a
few mouseclicks from someone sighted.
Best,
Arielle

On 10/2/11, Kerri Kosten <kerrik2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> Well, I received my laptop Thursday and am absolutely loving it. It's
> really fast, and it definitely is fast enough to run everything I want
> and doesn't slow down. I love it.
>
> Anyway I had a few more questions though.
>
> It turns out my computer did come with Internet Explorer. It is
> Internet Explorer 8 though. I am considering upgrading to IE 9. When
> you download something in IE 9 does the same dialogue come up asking
> you to open, save, or cancel or is it different in IE 9? The reason I
> am asking is because I've heard it's a lot different...it apparently
> comes up in a toolbar which I heard wasn't accessible. Is this true?
> What comes up when you go to download something?
>
> Also, what is the best thing to do when Jaws stops speaking/crashes?
> Yesterday I was downloading music and something came up (not sure what
> it was)and anyway Jaws completely stopped speaking. I tried hitting
> alt-F4 to get out of whatever it was, and then hitting alt-tab to get
> out of the window to see if Jaws would speak if it was in a different
> window. Nothing. I ended up having to manually shut the computer down
> by holding the power button down and restarting. Is this the best
> thing to do when in that kind of situation where Jaws does not speak?
>
> I looked in the control panel today and saw Narrator. I did not
> actually turn it on because I had Jaws running but I learned the
> keystroke is alt-N. Next time Jaws crashes or stops speaking do I just
> hit alt-n and Narrator should come on or do I need to do something
> first to enable it?
>
> Thanks,
> Kerri
>
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