[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

Ray Foret Jr rforetjr at att.net
Thu Jun 9 18:49:37 UTC 2011 

My windows using friends tell me it aint too good now either.  I agree.  the Iphone is best for FAcebook.  But, physically real people are best of all, like Mike said.


Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

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On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] wrote:

> 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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