[gui-talk] Screenreaders

[Mike Freeman]

Kris:

Part of the solution is to disable the touch screen and synaptic pointing device. More this evening. 

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone


On Aug 3, 2011, at 7:36, "Kris Hickerson" <krishickerson at att.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
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