[NFBCS] Jaws scripts and terminal emulation

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

Which emulator are you having trouble with?  I tried to use the Moccia 3270 emulator because they were moving to that at work, and although I got it to work, the response to cursor movement was terrible.  It seemed to be using a very slow blink rate that I could not change.  I have had pretty good luck with IBM's Personal Communication 3270 emulator, I think version 6.2, and that works pretty well once one changes some settings.  I have never done much with a script, though, other than getting me the cursor location and a few things like that.

I think it would be pretty hard to do a script without access to the emulator.  The script may be making JAWS crash and the likely crash can probably be found, but it sounds like there are interactions with the cursor that are not correct as well.  Maybe I am wrong, though.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Subject: [NFBCS] Jaws scripts and terminal emulation

I have been using the same Jaws script and terminal emulator for more than
20 years, and they still work very well.  However, my boss would prefer, if
possible, that I use the same emulator as my co-workers.  I'm OK with that,
but it behaves erratically.

When I log in or out, Jaws crashes and has to be restarted.  I researched
that with a helpful person on this list who works for Freedom Scientific,
and he identified the crash as a script problem.

 

Moving around in Edit, Jaws reports a different character under the cursor
than the braille display shows, and the braille is right.  But, other times,
the braille display starts jumping, flipping back and forth too rapidly to
read.  Both these things are deal-breakers for me.

Are these probably issues with the script, as well?

Could we hire a consultant to fix the script I have now?  It works very
well, for the most part.

How would we test any mods, if the consultant doesn't have a terminal
emulator?

What would be the estimated cost of such a project?

 

If a script writing consultant wants to write offlist, my email is
Carcione at access.net.

Thanks.

Tracy

 

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