[Nfb-science] JAWS and Command Prompt: A Weird Issue

Christine Szostak szostak.1 at buckeyemail.osu.edu
Sun Feb 17 09:05:19 UTC 2013


Hi,
  Thanks for the suggestion. Since this happened quite a while back, I am 
not sure I could even guess when it  originated and thus would likely not be 
able to determine when to roll my computer back to. I appreciate the 
suggestion though!


Christine M. Szostak
Doctoral Candidate and Research Consultant
Language Perception Laboratory
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
szostak.1 at osu.edu
www.soundresearchconsulting.wordpress.com
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] JAWS and Command Prompt: A Weird Issue


> Hello Christine:
>
> My suggestion is to see if the computer's system log has a save point 
> prior
> to when this issue occurred and perform a "rollback" so that JAWS will be
> returned to whatever setting it used to have before this happened.
>
> The nice thing about the system rollback feature is that all applications 
> on
> the computer gets reset to the way they were while still allowing files 
> that
> the user have accumulated to remain on the computer.
>
> Good luck,
> C.C. Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-science [mailto:nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Christine Szostak
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 6:16 PM
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> Subject: [Nfb-science] JAWS and Command Prompt: A Weird Issue
>
> Hi All,
>  my apologies for the second JAWS question, but it relates to my work as a
> scientist.
>
>  I am regularly using command  prompt for running programs relating to my
> work. the problem is that somehow I accidentally set JAWS so that it only
> speaks information when the following occurs:
>
> a)  I up-arrow.
>
> b)  I  Left or right arrow, and in these cases, it  repeatedly states the
> information under the cursor in a rapid fashion (e.g., if the character
> under the cursor when I arrow to the left is a, JAWS restates in a rapid
> fashion "a a a a ...").
>
> c)  When I do a control+c.
>
>  My  computer in my lab properly works with command prompt and reads each
> line as I arrow up or down and does not do the rapid repetition...
>
>  Thus, I am wondering if anyone can help provide details about how to make
> my JAWS software at home perform as it should. I have no idea what I did 
> to
> cause it to do this as it used to work just fine:).
>
>  I am running JAWS 9.0 and Windows XP.
>
>  Any help with this issue would be much appreciated as it makes work less
> efficient.
> Many thanks,
> Christine
> Christine M. Szostak
> Doctoral Candidate and Research Consultant Language Perception Laboratory
> Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area The Ohio State University 
> Columbus,
> Ohio szostak.1 at osu.edu www.soundresearchconsulting.wordpress.com
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