[NFBCS] JAWS Keeps Locking Up with Spellcheck before Send in Outlook

[Charles Vanek]

I experience this occurrence from time to time after heavy Outlook utilization and lengthy messages typically with a lot of images/links/etc.
I do know that when it happens if I press escape to get the message Outlook hasn’t completed checking your spelling, in about 5-8 seconds the JAWS speech returns and I can continue the message send if I don’t care about the spelling much or know that the spelling error was just technical commands which are accurate.

It’s annoying true, but is how I’ve worked around it.

I’m curious if anyone has disabled the AiSquared Add-ins in Outlook? These might not be on JAWS only since they are AiSquared they might be only for Fusion with Jaws. 

Best,
Charles


> On Nov 29, 2023, at 6:11 PM, Christopher Chaltain via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Wow, I never knew about this alt+shift+l command in JAWS! It’s definitely going to be right at the top of the toolbox!
>  
> That being said, spell checking in Outlook should work, and I’m not sure I’m ready yet to turn off automatic spell checking before an email is sent. I’ve had this problem in the past with JAWS or Outlook hanging up when the spell checking dialog comes up, but I’m not seeing it at the moment. I have the same set up except that I’m using Microsoft 365 and not Outlook 2019. My $0.02 is to start by sending in a report to Freedom Scientific.
>  
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> Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷
> Chaltain at Outlook, USA
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> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Curtis Chong via NFBCS
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 3:16 PM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] JAWS Keeps Locking Up with Spellcheck before Send in Outlook
>  
> Nicole:
>  
> I do not typically punch F7 to invoke spell check in an email I am about to send, nor do I hve Outlook spell check automatically before sending. Here are my suggestions:
>  
> Do not spell check automatically before sending.
> To determine if you have an error in your email before sending, try using the ALT+SHIFT+L JAWS command. If JAWS says you don’t have a spelling error, you’re good to send. If you do have an error, JAWS brings up a list of the spelling errors, and you can press Enter on the word you want to fix.
>  
> HTH.
>  
> Kind regards,
>  
> Curtis Chong
>  
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org>> On Behalf Of Nicole Torcolini via NFBCS
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 1:51 PM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbcs at nfbnet.org>>
> Cc: Nicole Torcolini <torcolini at comcast.net <mailto:torcolini at comcast.net>>
> Subject: [NFBCS] JAWS Keeps Locking Up with Spellcheck before Send in Outlook
>  
>             I have Outlook 2019 on Windows 10 64 bit with the latest version of JAWS. I have Outlook set to spellcheck before sending. Sometimes, it works fine, but, more and more often, if there is a spelling error, JAWS stops talking when in the window with the spellchecking—going to the desktop or somewhere else restores speech. Repeatedly pressing escape to exit the spellchecker fixes the problem, but I then often have to run spellchecker before pressing send rather than letting run after pressing send. Has anyone else experienced this?
>  
> Nicole and JAWS the misbehaving shark
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