[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

you are correct, even after switching to say all, nothing is spoken with the 
screen maximized.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:35 AM
Subject: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws


> 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.
>
>
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