[nfb-talk] need help with jaws

[Steve Jacobson]

John,

You might get better answers on GUI-Talk, but I'll comment here.  If what you are encountering is that you don't get speech when you are in full screen 
mode, that is not a bug as such, or at least it is not a JFW-Specific bug.  The full screen mode works differently than even running maximized so screen 
readers seem not to be able to get the information they need.  If you create a shortcut for the command prompt that runs it maximized, you should achieve 
most of what you are after and JFW should still speak.

If I am understanding what you wrote correctly, this is an old and well-known limitation and FS should have been able to explain this and certainly duplicate 
it.  If I have not understood correctly, please describe in more detail and I'll try again.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:35:12 -0500, John Heim wrote:

>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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