[nfbcs] A useful trick

[Bryan Schulz]

nope they will run at the same time, you just have to process two different 
voices at the same time.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] A useful trick


> Hey Steve,
>
> I suspect it causes much unhappiness if two screen readers
> are running at the same time, so either way you'd need to make sure
> that JAWS was shut down before trying to bring up either NVDA or
> another JAWS session.
>
> Take Care,
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:46:47AM -0600, Steve Jacobson wrote:
>> The difference I see is that if you have lost speech on a screen reader 
>> such as JFW, you don't know if it is still running or not.  The shortcut 
>> key generally
>> won't do a thing if JFW has gone silent but is still running.  I'm not 
>> sure, though, if there is an advantage to this over putting NVDA on the 
>> computer and
>> assigning a shortcut to it.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve Jacobson
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:31:04 -0800, Jim Barbour wrote:
>>
>> >Hey Tracy,
>>
>> >How is this different than simply assigning a shortcut key to JAWS so
>> >you can restart JAWS from the keyboard when it craps out?
>>
>> >Thanks,
>>
>> >Jim
>>
>> >On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:24:39AM -0500, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>> >> Lately, Jaws has been getting stuck or shutting down unexpectedly, 
>> >> leaving
>> >> me with no idea what's happening.  But, following instructions on the 
>> >> NVDA
>> >> website, I put NVDA on a flash drive with autolauncher.  When Jaws 
>> >> craps
>> >> out, I plug in my NVDA drive, and in a few seconds I have speech again 
>> >> and
>> >> can figure out what the problem is.  I'm finding it very handy, and
>> >> thought I'd share.
>> >> Tracy
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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