[nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products

[Denise Robinson]

You chose wisely without even knowing it...that is fortunate....now others know also
All things are not created equal in the tech world when running blind software

Denise M Robinson
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> On Oct 4, 2015, at 11:53 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I hadn't made a correlation between graphics cards and my screen reader performance, but I did have a bad experience with an ATI card quite a few years ago. I haven't really avoided them, but the only graphics cards I've purchased since then have been Nvidia adapters, and the laptops I've purchased have either just had on board Intel graphics chips or Nvidia adapters.
> 
>> On 10/03/2015 02:16 PM, Dr. Denise M Robinson via nfbcs wrote:
>> Christopher, Do you happen to have a geforce video card? I have discovered
>> that mine gives a very stable performance with my blind software. Where my
>> students have issues, I do not. I have discovered this over time so always
>> order it with my machines. I am sure there are other great video cards too,
>> but have always been a geforce user.
>> Denise
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:39 PM, David Andrews via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Steve, I have these problems on several different computers, and I know
>>> others at work, and elsewhere do.  I don't think it is unique to your
>>> system, and sounds like a Microsoft problem.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> At 08:31 PM 10/2/2015, you wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Chris,
>>>> 
>>>> What are you using for a synthesizer, and what sort of computer are you
>>>> running on?  I really need to know your secret.  I am having some problems
>>>> with office 2013 on all three of my computers.  Sometimes it is outlook
>>>> restarting or not responding, sometimes it is long delays with no speech
>>>> after which speech comes back and so forth.  The problems are somewhat
>>>> different depending upon whether I am using JAWS or Window-Eyes, so the
>>>> screen reader has something to do with it all, but it is impacting my
>>>> productivity as well as adding to the stress level.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Steve Jacobson
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
>>>> Chaltain via nfbcs
>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:53 PM
>>>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Cc: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't experienced this at all myself. I use JAWS 16, Windows 7 and
>>>> Office 2013. I'll occasionally get the message that one of the Office
>>>> applications has stopped responding, but no more frequently than my
>>>> sighted
>>>> coworkers do. I don't find JAWS 16 to be particularly unstable.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/01/2015 12:19 PM, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:
>>>>> I've had issues with Jaws16 stopping and restarting itself for no
>>>>> particular reason.  Sometimes I'm in Outlook, sometimes in my terminal
>>>>> emulator.  Some days it happens 3 or 4 times, and other days not at
>>>>> all.  My only conclusion is Jaws 16 is not stable.
>>>>> Tracy
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert
>>>>> Jaquiss via nfbcs
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 11:41 AM
>>>>> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Cc: Robert Jaquiss
>>>>> Subject: [nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>> 
>>>>>       I have been having considerable trouble with JAWS crashing when
>>>>> using Microsoft Word and sometimes Explorer.
>>>>> I usually run JAWS 16 and have Word 365. The Word version is a 32 bit
>>>>> version on a 64 bit machine. I have also had problems with JAWS 16 and
>>>>> Word
>>>>> 2013 on my home machine. I have observed that JAWS 15 is sometimes
>>>>> more stable. Have others on this list had similar issues? Thank you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Robert
>>>>> 
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