[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[John Heim]

Right now I am at 12.0.1161 which was just released  the day before 
yesterday. That was another thing they had me do, update to the very latest 
version. But I can reproduce this problem on a machine running version 9. I 
can reproduce it on Windows XP, jaws version 9, and Windows XP jaws version 
12, and Windows 7 jaws version 12.  I can reproduce the problem on every 
machine I've tried it on and have been able to do so for many years.

To be quite honest, I think Freedom Scientific is jerking me around. But I 
thought I'd better make sure before i started thinking badly of them.

First they asked for a more detailed explanation of the problem which I 
think is fairly clear to anyone who knows anything about computers. Second, 
they made me update my version even though my version was only a couple of 
weeks old and the problem has been around for years anyway. Now they say 
they can't reproduce it. Hmmm... I suppose its possible I've done something 
wrong when installing jaws all these years but I just set up a Windows 7 
machine a few weeks ago and haven't done anything to it yet but installed 
jaws. And it does the same thing. I mean, its practically a fresh install of 
Win7.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Lester" <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] need help with jaws


> 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>
>> 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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