[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

ckrugman at sbcglobal.net ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 2 02:44:30 UTC 2011


there are limitations regarding what one can do with the mobile Facebook as 
compared to the full-featured site. I haven't set up a Facebook page and 
have no intention of doing so until such time that Facebook acts in good 
faith to address accessibility issues as I don't need it that badly.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws


> Someone said to try the mobile facebook.
>
> Terry Powers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lester [mailto:jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:01 PM
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws
>
> Well, that's why everyone needs to join me.
> I'm about to get rid of Jaws, anyway, because of a different problem.
> I'm wanting to experiment with HumanWare's products.
> Facebook won't cooperate with Jaws.
> Every time I try to create a page, the Jaws makes my computer shut down.
> I don't understand why.
> I have Jaws 11.0.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 6/9/11, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>> Right now I am at 12.0.1161 which was just released  the day before
>> yesterday. That was another thing they had me do, update to the very
>> latest version. But I can reproduce this problem on a machine running
>> version 9. I can reproduce it on Windows XP, jaws version 9, and
>> Windows XP jaws version 12, and Windows 7 jaws version 12.  I can
>> reproduce the problem on every machine I've tried it on and have been 
>> able to do so for many years.
>>
>> To be quite honest, I think Freedom Scientific is jerking me around.
>> But I thought I'd better make sure before i started thinking badly of 
>> them.
>>
>> First they asked for a more detailed explanation of the problem which
>> I think is fairly clear to anyone who knows anything about computers.
>> Second, they made me update my version even though my version was only
>> a couple of weeks old and the problem has been around for years
>> anyway. Now they say they can't reproduce it. Hmmm... I suppose its
>> possible I've done something wrong when installing jaws all these
>> years but I just set up a Windows 7 machine a few weeks ago and
>> haven't done anything to it yet but installed jaws. And it does the
>> same thing. I mean, its practically a fresh install of Win7.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joshua Lester" <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu>
>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws
>>
>>
>>> John, what version do you use?
>>> If I were you, I'd talk to the freedom scientific guys, in person.
>>> They should be at convention, this year.
>>> Are you going?
>>> Blessings, Joshua
>>>
>>> On 6/9/11, Bryan Schulz <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> you are correct, even after switching to say all, nothing is spoken
>>>> with the screen maximized.
>>>>
>>>> Bryan Schulz
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net>
>>>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:35 AM
>>>> Subject: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm having a problem with my jaws screen reader. I submitted a bug
>>>>> report but Freedom Scientific tells me they can't reproduce the
>>>>> bug. My experience has been that all version of jaws have had this
>>>>> problem and it happens on every computer I've ever tried it on.  So
>>>>> I was hoping other users of jaws could tell me if they can
>>>>> reproduce the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that jaws can't read text in a full screen command
>>>>> window.
>>>>> A command window is the way Microsoft Windows lets you ttype in
>>>>> commands sort of like the old days of DOS. If you use jaws I think
>>>>> you may be able to reproduce my problem by doing the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Press Windows+r to open a run dialog box. Jaws should say "Type
>>>>> the name of a program etcetera" Type the word command and press
>>>>> enter. That should open a command window.
>>>>> 2. Press Alt+Enter to make the window full screen. At this point,
>>>>> if you type a command like dir or help, text will be displayed on
>>>>> the screen but not spoken by jaws. Or at least that is what it does
>>>>> for me.
>>>>> 3. Put the window back to normal size by pressing Alt+Enter again.
>>>>> Now when you type a command, jaws will work correctly and read the
>>>>> text that is displayed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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