[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[Mike Freeman]

In fairness, I'm not sure *any* screen reader works in full-screen mode although I haven't used them all so my word ought not to be the last on the subject and, knowing this list, I hazard that it won't be. (grin)

Mike Freeman
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On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:06, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> wrote:

> 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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