[nfbcs] Speech on Demand Frustrations

[Leslie Fairall]

Hello everyone:

The subject says it in a nutshell. I'm finding that I don't like this new 
speech on demand feature in Jaws. The ability to totally turn speech 
on/off has been severely hampered or removed completely. I now work in a 
cubicle setting where I don't necessarily want my time or title bar 
announced. I have made the unfortunate decision not to install Jaws 2018 
on my office PC due to this new feature. I've also found that full speech 
often comes back on when there is a major screen change.

The bottom line is that I want to be in control of my screen reader. I 
found the ability to turn speech on/off essential, but it has been taken 
away from me. I hope deaf-blind users are aware of this change since they 
may not be able to hear their computer talk at all. If speech on demand is 
such a valuable feature, I don't understand why it wouldn't have been 
built in as a layered command. So, when you press insert-s, you would get
three choices instead of two. But what do I know, right?

What are others thoughts on this? Am I the only one not liking this new 
feature?

-- 
Leslie Fairall
mailto:fairall at shellworld.net