[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[John Heim]

Nvda works in a full screen command window. To tell you the truth, the 
reason i submitted the bug to Freedom Scientific is that it works in nvda. 
For years I've ben switching to nvda to run apps in a full screen command 
window. But that's a PITA.

I expected FS to tell me that they were aware of the problem and would put 
the fix on their wish list.  But I think they're giving me a run around 
instead. But like I said, I don't want to jump to any conclusions.

Does everybody know what nvda is? Its a fre, open-source screen reader. Its 
pretty darn good too.  I don't know if I'd put it in the same class as jaws 
but in some ways, its better.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws


> 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
> sent from my iPhone
>
>
> 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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