[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

Thu Jun 9 18:37:15 UTC 2011

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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