[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[Bryan Schulz]

thats what i meant, the black command prompt window, the same steps you 
listed.

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 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws


> Thanks. But I should probably make sure we are talking about the same 
> thing. There is a difference between full screen and maximized. A full 
> screen window doesn't have the windows title bar at the top or the scroll 
> bars on the side and bottom. The screen looks like an old DOS screen. To 
> make a window full screen, you press the Alt and the enter key at the same 
> time. To maximize a window, you press Alt+space and then x.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws
>
>
>> 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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