[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[Joshua Lester]

John, what version do you use?
If I were you, I'd talk to the freedom scientific guys, in person.
They should be at convention, this year.
Are you going?
Blessings, Joshua

On 6/9/11, Bryan Schulz <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:35 AM
> Subject: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws
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>
>> 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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