[nabs-l] JAWS

Tue May 16 22:51:54 UTC 2017

I was going to comment on that too. You are not clueless without sighted
help. I use narrator to rescue me from jaws "conking out" e.g: crashing.
Sometimes you either do need to use the task manager however or restart
depending on which part of jaws crashed. But if you can alt-tab and
reboot jaws with narrator you should be fine. Also setting up a hotkey
like ctrl+alt+j might be useful.
HTH,
On 5/16/2017 6:48 PM, Aaron via NABS-L wrote:
> I don't think that the statement "jaws would conk out on you and you'd need
> sighted assistance..." What about installing NVDA or learning how to use
> narrator. 
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Linson 
> CEO Blind Faith Project
> CEO Linson Productions
> Aaron Linson 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett
> via NABS-L
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 6:38 PM
> To: steve.jacobson at visi.com; National Association of Blind Students mailing
> list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] JAWS
>
> 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
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> 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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