[gui-talk] What does one have to do with the other?

[Kenlawrence124 at aol.com]

Hi List members, Ken here with a baffling question.  My Windows XP  machine 
was doing the same thing as this one and we've taken it to be  reformatted. 
 Now all of the sudden, this windows 2000 machine does the  same thing and 
I'm baffled.  When the sign on screen of AOL is up I hit  enter and it 
connects, but when the machine says you've got mail, all at once it  just stops 
talking even when thunder is running at the same time.  I do  know that a 
portal opens up and a whole bunch of pages come up on the welcome  screen but 
there is no way to close them down because nothing talks.  not  even the tell 
me what window it is command.  I'm sure the computer is doing  what the 
keyboard command is telling it, but no speech comes out.  Jaws  isn't shutting 
down, it not shutting thunder down either, it all of the sudden  just clams 
up.  it's like the cat has it's tongue.  If I force it to  reconnect by 
holding down one of the touchpad keys on the phone suddenly Jaws  remembers to 
talk.  What is loaded on the AOL welcome screen that would  inter fear with 
Jaws if display animation in web pages is off?  it is a  problem on all 
screen reader and this machine is just starting this.  is  something going on the 
machine that would cause this to happen.  What does  connection have to do 
with speech?  what is happening when AOL welcomes me  after the you've got 
mail announcement?  They shouldn't have anything to do  with each other.  I'm 
trying to see if the mail waiting to be sent dialog  coming up prevents 
this from happening.  So composing offline and sending  when I connect.      I 
pledge to participate actively in the  efforts of the national federation of 
the blind To achieve equality,  opportunity, and security for the blind; to 
support the policies and programs of  the federation; and abide by its 
constitution.
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