[nfbcs] With silent disk, how do you know?

[Joseph C. Lininger]

I just wanted to tell everyone that I find this issue and people's 
solutions to it to be highly interesting. The reason is, for most 
purposes I'm considered totally blind. However, my useable vision works 
well enough that I can do certain things (avoiding large obsticles and 
the like), and detecting whether status lights are on happens to be one 
of them. I can even tell if the start menu pops up when I hit the key 
for it (a common method I use for detecting lock-ups if the screen 
reader isn't working), although I can't read or interact with the menu 
using vision. How to do it when you absolutely can't see them and can't 
ask someone who can is a problem to which I hadn't given a lot of 
thought. I had given thought to detecting if normal lights or lamps are 
on because of totally blind friends and signifficant others, but this is 
a diffferent sort of issue that I hadn't really considered.

--
Joe

On 3/27/2018 09:26, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:
> With the new silent disks, how do you know your computer is doing
> something, when Jaws goes silent?  For instance, I have trouble making
> sure my new laptop is on.  I can feel a tiny draft from the fan, but it's
> very subtle.
> Or, just now, my old work desktop decided to do an automatic update, and
> Jaws stopped talking.  The only way I knew the PC was still working was
> that I could hear the disk spinning, and, when it rebooted after the
> update, spinning for another few minutes before Jaws finally came up.
> So, with the new silent discs, how do you know something is happening and
> you should just wait a bit?
> Tracy
>
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