[NFBCS] Jaws scripts and terminal emulation

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Steve.
The emulator most people in my shop are using is Hummingbird, which I
believe is the latest incarnation of Extra or Reflections.
It works OK for a little while, then starts acting up.  
In my experience, emulators are very sensitive to font size, and Hummingbird
sometimes changes the font size without warning.  Or so it seems.  But
that's only part of the problem.
Tracy


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Tracy,

Which emulator are you having trouble with?  I tried to use the Moccia 3270
emulator because they were moving to that at work, and although I got it to
work, the response to cursor movement was terrible.  It seemed to be using a
very slow blink rate that I could not change.  I have had pretty good luck
with IBM's Personal Communication 3270 emulator, I think version 6.2, and
that works pretty well once one changes some settings.  I have never done
much with a script, though, other than getting me the cursor location and a
few things like that.

I think it would be pretty hard to do a script without access to the
emulator.  The script may be making JAWS crash and the likely crash can
probably be found, but it sounds like there are interactions with the cursor
that are not correct as well.  Maybe I am wrong, though.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: [NFBCS] Jaws scripts and terminal emulation

I have been using the same Jaws script and terminal emulator for more than
20 years, and they still work very well.  However, my boss would prefer, if
possible, that I use the same emulator as my co-workers.  I'm OK with that,
but it behaves erratically.

When I log in or out, Jaws crashes and has to be restarted.  I researched
that with a helpful person on this list who works for Freedom Scientific,
and he identified the crash as a script problem.

 

Moving around in Edit, Jaws reports a different character under the cursor
than the braille display shows, and the braille is right.  But, other times,
the braille display starts jumping, flipping back and forth too rapidly to
read.  Both these things are deal-breakers for me.

Are these probably issues with the script, as well?

Could we hire a consultant to fix the script I have now?  It works very
well, for the most part.

How would we test any mods, if the consultant doesn't have a terminal
emulator?

What would be the estimated cost of such a project?

 

If a script writing consultant wants to write offlist, my email is
Carcione at access.net.

Thanks.

Tracy

 

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