[gui-talk] Screenreaders

[Mike Freeman]

Hi, Jaybee.

More and more PC's these days are being configured such that the function
keys perform functions analogous to those on a Mac computer. You've seen
this in the volume/mute function keys. I had the same problem with this
HPPavillion DV7 laptop.

The solution is to have a sighted person who knows what s/he is doing go in
and change the BIOS such that the function keys perform their original
purpose and the shift key is required to makethem do their Mac-like thing.
In the BIOS on this computer, it was a simple change to a toggle. There's no
guarantee that the BIOS on your machine has the capability of reverting to
the behavior of the function keys you're used to but I bet it does.

In the meantime, if you have enough hands, holding down the Shift Key while
pressing the function keys may well bring back the behavior you expect.

Mike Freeman
 

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of jaybee
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 5:52 PM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Screenreaders

I wonder if anyone can haelp with what may or may not be a screenreader 
problem?  Here's the situation.  I just purchased a laptop from Dell, and 
JAWS does not read the function keys.  In fact, some of the function keys 
have been set for other use such as volume. Is there any way to change this?

For example, is there any way to make JAWS read each of the function keys, 
or is there any way to change settings where the function keys are not 
volume, projector etc.?  Thanks for any assistance.  If this quest is 
inappropriate for this list can anyone write off list: jayjohnson66 at att.net?
"Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old 
aside."  (Alexander Pope) 


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