[NFBCS] Potential Issue with Latest JAWS

Wed Sep 2 06:33:36 UTC 2020

Yes, I also find JAWSKey+Esc. does not work either.

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Nathaniel Schmidt
Undergraduate student
Bachelor of Computer Science (S306)
School of Information Technology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Deakin University, Cloud campus
https://sync.deakin.edu.au/profiles/student/njschmidt/

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> Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>; 'Rasmussen, Lloyd'
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Potential Issue with Latest JAWS
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> Insert Escape is always my first attempt.😀
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> It doesn't work for this problem.
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> Curtis
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> Have you tried insert-Escape in Duxbury? I have found many occasions where
> the OSM needs to be refreshed, both with JAWS and Window-Eyes, before you
> can properly edit in Duxbury.
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> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
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> Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Potential Issue with Latest JAWS
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> Howdy Glen:
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> The one place where I have noticed this a lot is with the Duxbury Braille
> Translation program. If JAWS starts earlier, for whatever reason, when you open
> a new document, JAWS is not reading the characters I have typed n the screen at
> all. If I then recycle JAWS, the characters show up. Go figure<smile>.
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> Curtis
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> From: Glen Gordon <GGordon at Vispero.com>
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> Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
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> Subject: RE: [NFBCS] Potential Issue with Latest JAWS
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> Hi, Curtis,
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> Can you provide a couple of examples where reading doesn't work right if you
> have JAWS automatically start after login? The main difference between the
> automatic start and creating a startup shortcut is that the former starts JAWS
> much earlier in the login process.
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> --Glen
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 9:50 AM
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> Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Potential Issue with Latest JAWS
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> Greetings:
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> For the past while, even before this latest update of JAWS, I have noticed a
> problem with JAWS and Windows 10 which only seems to appear if you set JAWS
> to start itself automatically after log in. In some instances, JAWS will not detect
> characters that are normally detected when you move through a document.
> Restarting JAWS does fix this problem, and this might be why a lot of people
> don't report it.
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> My permanent fix for this was to copy the JAWS shortcut into a folder called
> shell:startup and then to tell JAWS not to start automatically except before the
> logon screen. So far, it's working for me.
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> Cordially,
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> Curtis Chong
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> Cc: Nathaniel Schmidt <schmidty2244 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [NFBCS] Potential Issue with Latest JAWS
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> Hi all,
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> I am having a strange issue that only started with the last JAWS version as of this
> writing (v2020.2008.24).  When I open a text editor such as
> 
> Notepad++, for example, JAWS will periodically not speak the text under
> 
> Notepad++the
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> PC cursor when navigating through the text with the arrow keys.  The only way
> to fix this problem seems to be to re-start JFW altogether.  And yes, I have
> restarted my computer after updating.
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> I may or may not be making circumstantially invalid correlations here; however,
> I have noticed that this error only appears to occur whenever I have recently
> opened a convenient OCR window and OCRed a PDF doc for instance.
> Otherwise things appear to be normal.
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> Anyone got any suggestions? It's a frustrating new development, as I am
> studying a degree that requires me to do a lot of programming and NPP is my
> preferred editor of choice for this field of study.
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> Regards,
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> Nathaniel
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> Bachelor of Computer Science (S306)
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> School of Information Technology
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> Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
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> Deakin University, Cloud campus
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> https://sync.deakin.edu.au/profiles/student/njschmidt/
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