[nfbcs] A useful trick

[Jim Barbour]

Hey Steve,

I suspect it causes much unhappiness if two screen readers
are running at the same time, so either way you'd need to make sure
that JAWS was shut down before trying to bring up either NVDA or
another JAWS session.

Take Care,

Jim

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:46:47AM -0600, Steve Jacobson wrote:
> The difference I see is that if you have lost speech on a screen reader such as JFW, you don't know if it is still running or not.  The shortcut key generally 
> won't do a thing if JFW has gone silent but is still running.  I'm not sure, though, if there is an advantage to this over putting NVDA on the computer and 
> assigning a shortcut to it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve Jacobson
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:31:04 -0800, Jim Barbour wrote:
> 
> >Hey Tracy,
> 
> >How is this different than simply assigning a shortcut key to JAWS so
> >you can restart JAWS from the keyboard when it craps out?
> 
> >Thanks,
> 
> >Jim
> 
> >On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:24:39AM -0500, Tracy Carcione wrote:
> >> Lately, Jaws has been getting stuck or shutting down unexpectedly, leaving
> >> me with no idea what's happening.  But, following instructions on the NVDA
> >> website, I put NVDA on a flash drive with autolauncher.  When Jaws craps
> >> out, I plug in my NVDA drive, and in a few seconds I have speech again and
> >> can figure out what the problem is.  I'm finding it very handy, and
> >> thought I'd share.
> >> Tracy
> >> 
> >> 
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