[gui-talk] Screenreaders

[Kris Hickerson]

Hi Guys,  

Well, there are several problems here. 

First of all I'm using a relatively new HP computer running Windows 7.  This
is my first introduction to 7, and I hate it, sofar. 

Something is not set right in Windows because when I'm typing an email all
of a sudden it will take me out of the message I'm typing and put me
somewhere else.  I don't realize it's happened until I get some strange
message from JAWS indicating that I'm no longer in the message I was
attempting to write.  Then I have to alt tab until I bring up the message I
was writing in the first place.  This has happened four times just while I'm
trying to compose this message.    

Secondly, is it possible to change the touch on these new computers.  This
keyboard is so sensative you can almost breathe on it and type a character.
My getting used to this  computer is also part of the problem.  The keys are
not as sloped as most keyboards are, it is practically perfectly level and
that is giving me a problem. 

 dthirdly,  as I mentioned before, I think there are settings in Windows I
could change to make it perform more to my liking, but I don't know what to
change.  

And exactly where or if JAWS fits into this picture I'm not sure.  There are
probably settings in JAWS I could choose to make it better as well.  Here
again, I really don't know where to start and what to change.  I don't like
the way it displays some of my emails.  It has everything in coluns and most
of the time all I get are numbers and rows of the columns and not the text .
I feel certain this is a JAWS problem. 

Anyway, after starting this email over four times I hope it's cleaned up
enough to send. 

Kris
 
-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:16 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Screenreaders

Mike,

We don't know at this point whether her gripe is really with JFW or if there
might be some things with Windows 7 that are throwing her for a loop.  I
hate to see her make a switch and spend money only to find that she has the
same frustrations.  <smile>  I find Windows 7 to work pretty well using
Window- Eyes, for example, but there are things I had to learn and to get
used to.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:17:44 -0500, Mike Arrigo wrote:
>I use system access every day at work with windows 7, it does everything I
need, give it a try, I think you will be pleased.
>On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Kris Hickerson wrote:

>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Is anyone using System Access  successfully with Windows 7?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm getting very frustrated with JAWS and all it's conflicts.  It 
>> seems like everytime I sit down at the computer, all I get 
>> accomplished is problem solving.  If it isn't JAWS, it's Windows 7 
>> itself.  XP was so easy!!  So, if SA works, I think I'll try it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kris
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