[NFBCS] problems with JAWS 2021 and my Linovo laptop

David Andrews dandrews920 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 11 13:10:50 UTC 2021


It sounds like you may have accidently locked one of the cursors. The 
command, to toggle this on and off on a regular keyboard is jaws key 
plus slash on the num pad, and the other cursor is jaws key plus * 
asterisk on the numpad. I don't know the laptop keystrokes.

Dave

At 09:21 AM 2/1/2021, you wrote:
>Good morning all,
>
>I am using the latest version of jaws2021 with my Linovo Yoga
>laptop running Windows 10.
>I'm having all kinds of problems as it seems that JAWS is causing problems
>with me using the keyboard. I have the layout set to laptop. It works fine
>for a while, but then, the keys don't function properly. For instance, if I
>am using the arrow keys to read through text, I keep hearing "select or
>unselect" as if I were holding down the control key, but that isn't the
>case. The caps lock key isn't functioning properly either as I can't use it
>to enter JAWS commands.
>
>I had to go back to using jaws 2020.
>Any help and advice is appreciated.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Liz Campbell
>--
>Elizabeth Campbell




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