[gui-talk] Help! Everything's speaking in Jaws! Everything!

[Baracco, Andrew W]

I think what you did was to hit INSERT-S which is a speech toggle.  It
toggles between none, highlighted, and all.  You probably toggled it to
all.  hit INSERT-S repeatedly until you hear it say "highlighted" then
you'll be okay.

Andy
 

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:39 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] Help! Everything's speaking in Jaws! Everything!

This never happened to me before, and I hope there's a simple way to
turn it off. I was just in a Word document that I was editing, and for
no reason I can remember I accidentally hit the jaws key (insert key on
my desktop) and something around the upper left of my keyboard. Maybe it
was the letter A, in fact that's what I feel as if it was.

Well, whatever I did, all of a sudden jaws began speaking everything
from announcing my menu line, the clock every time it changes, the Word
measurements in inches now and then, and mysterious numbers now and then
like 1 or 4 or whatever,. I closed that document and came here into
Outlook Express to compose this plea for help, and even here jaws is
speaking every screen element is can find, speaking my every keystroke
no matter that I use Insert 2 to toggle it to words as I usually keep it
set, and so forth. I can hardly hear myself time because it's always
speaking everything I type, individual characters and then words and ten
whole lines and I just can't do anything to stop it.

Help. I'm hoping there's just one key combo I must have pressed while in
Word that set this off, and I am hoping dearly that it's a toggle so I
can stop all this crazy racket.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. it doesn't do any of this when I'm just reading what I've typed.
But if I'm typing, or doing anything else,it starts all over again. if
that's a clue to someone.


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