[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[John Heim]

Thanks. But I should probably make sure we are talking about the same thing. 
There is a difference between full screen and maximized. A full screen 
window doesn't have the windows title bar at the top or the scroll bars on 
the side and bottom. The screen looks like an old DOS screen. To make a 
window full screen, you press the Alt and the enter key at the same time. To 
maximize a window, you press Alt+space and then x.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws


> 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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