[Social-sciences-list] JAWS and Command Prompt: A Weird Issue

Arielle Silverman arielle71 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 00:07:50 UTC 2013


Hi Christine,
I'm not sure what's happening either, but sometimes uninstalling and
then re-installing JAWS fixes these kinds of bugs. I think you will
need to uninstall JAWS completely using the "add or remove programs"
feature in the control panel, then re-install from disk or online
copy. Hope that helps!
Arielle

On 2/16/13, Christine Szostak <szostak.1 at buckeyemail.osu.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>   my apologies for the second JAWS question, but it relates to my work as a
> scientist.
>
>   I am regularly using command  prompt for running programs relating to my
> work. the problem is that somehow I accidentally set JAWS so that it only
> speaks information when the following occurs:
>
> a)  I up-arrow.
>
> b)  I  Left or right arrow, and in these cases, it  repeatedly states the
> information under the cursor in a rapid fashion (e.g., if the character
> under the cursor when I arrow to the left is a, JAWS restates in a rapid
> fashion "a a a a ...").
>
> c)  When I do a control+c.
>
>   My  computer in my lab properly works with command prompt and reads each
> line as I arrow up or down and does not do the rapid repetition...
>
>   Thus, I am wondering if anyone can help provide details about how to make
> my JAWS software at home perform as it should. I have no idea what I did to
> cause it to do this as it used to work just fine:).
>
>   I am running JAWS 9.0 and Windows XP.
>
>   Any help with this issue would be much appreciated as it makes work less
> efficient.
> Many thanks,
> Christine
> Christine M. Szostak
> Doctoral Candidate and Research Consultant
> Language Perception Laboratory
> Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
> The Ohio State University
> Columbus, Ohio
> szostak.1 at osu.edu
> www.soundresearchconsulting.wordpress.com




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