[nfbcs] odd jows behavior in command window

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Thu Sep 27 15:30:02 UTC 2012


Well, thank you Denise, but I didn't ask for advice on handling the bug. I
can't keep pressing control every time jaws starts reading the entire line.
If I'm typing in a long command, it might do it 5 or 6 times and it
interrupts my typing. 

What is "advance mode"?

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Dr. Denise M Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] odd jows behavior in command window

just hit ctrl and shut him up and start typing what you want or put jaws in
advanced mode and he wont talk that much denise

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:34 PM, John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Can anyone confirm the odd behavior I've been noticing with jaws 13 
> and the Windows 7 command window? On my system, jaws is way too 
> verbose in the Windows 7 command window. I'd appreciate it if someone 
> would try to reproduce my problem. To do that, please open a command 
> window and just start typing. On my system, jaws often reads the 
> entire line including the prompt.  So if my prompt is 
> "C:\Users\jheim>", if I type in a dir command, jaws will say "C colon
backslash users backslash jheim greater than dir".
>
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