[nabs-l] JAWS

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Tue May 16 22:38:24 UTC 2017


Hello,

It seems like many of you including those tech savvy people are having 
trouble with Jaws 18 and either Word or Outlook.
Given that these are mainstream products used often in work settings, this 
could be a serious problem since if you are typing or something important, 
you do not want jaws to conk out on you. Without jaws, you are clueless and 
would need a sighted person's help to save your work and shut down the pc 
properly.

Does freedom scientific know about this? Kelsey, did you contact FS about 
this? This sounds bad and something FS needs to be working on ASAP.

I've got jaws 18 and I think it has froze on me in Word. I'm using older 
software. Its windows 7 and Microsoft 2010.
I'll keep this all in mind and next time it crashes on me, I'll make a note 
and call FS.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve Jacobson via NABS-L
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 12:20 PM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Cc: Steve Jacobson
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] JAWS

Which version of Outlook are you using and which build of JAWS 18?  I have
also had problems since a recent build, Build 2738, of JAWS and Office 2016
through Office 365.  Certainly problems are minimized by more speed and more
memory, but it does seem as though something has gotten more troublesome
recently.  I have reverted to JAWS 17 when I know I am going to be doing a
good deal of work in Outlook, Word or Excel, and the problems are a good
deal less when I do that.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

-----Original Message-----
From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Linson
Productions via NABS-L
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 10:26 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Linson Productions <blindgeek1989 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] JAWS

I think this problem doesn't matter what version of jaws that you have. I
am running 18 and outlook, they both work fine on my machine.


On May 16, 2017 10:15:50 AM Gary Wunder via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> I find this happening more than I would like. What version of Outlook are
> you using?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kelsey
Nicolay
> via NABS-L
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 10:49 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Kelsey Nicolay
> Subject: [nabs-l] JAWS
>
> Hello,
> I was hoping someone who uses JAWS could help me out.  I have been on JAWS
> 18 at work since November.  I have noticed within the past couple months,
> JAWS has a tendency to crash.  Most of the time when this happens, I can
get
> JAWS 17 started or turn on Nvda, but on Friday, it locked up to the point
> where I could not perform any keystrokes, not even standard Windows
> keystrokes like alt fbled.  I later determined from Nvda that Outlook had
> stopped responding, but when this causes JAWS to lock up and prevent me
from
> doing keystrokes, there's a problem.  What I ended up doing was pressing
the
> power button to initiate a shutdown and then boot up again.  IT did a scan
> of my computer and couldn't find anything.  Therefore, has anyone else
> experienced similar issues when using JAWS 18 on Windows 7? JAWS 17 never
> did this.
> Thank you,
> Kelsey Nicolay
>
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