[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[John Heim]

All,

I'm having a problem with my jaws screen reader. I submitted a bug report 
but Freedom Scientific tells me they can't reproduce the bug. My experience 
has been that all version of jaws have had this problem and it happens on 
every computer I've ever tried it on.  So I was hoping other users of jaws 
could tell me if they can reproduce the problem.

The problem is that jaws can't read text in a full screen command window. A 
command window is the way Microsoft Windows lets you ttype in commands sort 
of like the old days of DOS. If you use jaws I think you may be able to 
reproduce my problem by doing the following:

1. Press Windows+r to open a run dialog box. Jaws should say "Type the name 
of a program etcetera" Type the word command and press enter. That should 
open a command window.
2. Press Alt+Enter to make the window full screen. At this point, if you 
type a command like dir or help, text will be displayed on the screen but 
not spoken by jaws. Or at least that is what it does for me.
3. Put the window back to normal size by pressing Alt+Enter again. Now when 
you type a command, jaws will work correctly and read the text that is 
displayed.