[gui-talk] Jaws won't say "control C" on folder namesinWindowsExplorer

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

If I use the tree view (the pane on the left) to select a folder, then tab
into the right-hand pane where the files and subfolders can be examined or
selected, nothing is selected when I land there.  To select anything, I must
use an arrow key, Home, End, PgDn, etc. to move away from that starting
place, or press spacebar to do the selection in place.  The starting place
in the right-hand pane is whatever you reach with the Home key, but this is
determined by the sort order you have applied to that folder.

Anyway, I hope you get it figured out.

We don't have an option to repair Window-Eyes.  All we an do is uninstall
and reinstall it.  <grin>

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:54 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Jaws won't say "control C" on folder
> namesinWindowsExplorer
> 
> Lloyd,
> 
> this is true in a lot of cases, but is completely irrelevant when you
> simply
> land on a filename with your arrow key and it speaks. It's selected, then.
> The only reason to involve the space bar is when you want to select
> contiguous or non-contiguous files along with that one, in that folder. I
> hope I'm understanding you correctly. Because on my desktop, and on every
> computer I've used with every bersion of Jaws and three versions of
> Windows,
> just landing on a filename or a folder name selects it. This has always
> been
> true for me. If pressing the space bar now, for some reason, has the
> effect
> of officially selecting whatever my cursor's on, that will be interesting.
> But it's not gonna happen that way on my desktop, also running Win XP, I
> assure you. Again, you only need to use the space bar to select when
> you're
> selecting more than just the filename your cursor's on. Honest. If playing
> with the space bar turns out to fix my problem, I'll let you know. But I
> doubt it will.