[nfbcs] JAWS Screen Echo Issue

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Mike and everyone,

Actually I was the one who posted that message. Mary's account is still the 
default on my laptop a reminder of the recent technology melt-down we had 
the past few months. I need to fix it so my name appears instead of hers.

    I called FS on this issue and was told how to turn JAWS off when 
recording and back on when the recording is finished by activating the 
"Layered Command function with the JAWS Key plus the Spacebar followed by 
the letter S to toggle JAWS off and back on. It's those very error messages 
that ruined a few recordings. I can review them when the recording is 
complete.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] JAWS Screen Echo Issue


Mary:

Best way is to use an external speech synth such as the DECtalk USB or
Tripple-talk USB. You don't want "None" to actually mean "None" because
you'd miss error messages. But with an external synthesizer, all the JAWS
stuff is sent to it and your soundcard gets the output you want.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Mary Donahue
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 3:34 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Cc: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List;
support at freedomscientific.com
Subject: [nfbcs] JAWS Screen Echo Issue

Hello everyone,

    This issue has bugged me for some time so I decided it was time to find
a solution and to make a feature request to Freedom Scientific to help
remedy this problem. I do lots of recording and have had a number of
presentations and programs ruined by unwanted JAWS chatter even when "Screen
Echo" is set to none! My idea of the "None" setting of JAWS screen echo is
obviously different than that of Freedom Scientific. When I invoke this
setting I expect absolutely nothing to be voiced by JAWS including Windows
Update and other messages that often pop up during a recording session. I'm
sure some of you have had this happen and have come up with remedies for it.
I'll appreciate hearing them.

    Whenever I want to record a program from the Internet I could drag out
my trusty mixer which has an internal sound card that would divert JAWS
speech away from the material being recorded but this to me is over-kill
when an enhanced screen echo setting could be included in future releases of
JAWS and other screen readers that would solve this problem. The holidays
are coming up and we record lots of programs during that time. We would
appreciate them not being ruined by unwanted chatter from JAWS during the
recording session. Your feedback, suggestions, and a feature in JAWS 14 to
address this concern would be very much appreciated.

Peter Donahue

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