[nfbcs] Speech on Demand Frustrations

[Sabra Ewing]

I have had the opposite problem with lack of accessibility where sighted people at universities tried to set up computers set it jaws cannot work. For example, it would leave their computers on mute and say there was nothing they could do about it because that was just how their system works. And the fact that I was not receiving speech during major screen changes was a problem for me. If you want to use a program that only speaks sometimes, maybe try Zoom text or something else.

Sabra Ewing

> On Mar 9, 2018, at 3:42 PM, Leslie Fairall via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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