[Nfb-web] [nfbcs] JAWS and IE7

[Joe Orozco]

I figured out my own problem.  Earlier I had set my verbosity to turn off 
automatic page refresh.  I turned it back on, and it worked.  But thanks for 
responding.--Joe Orozco

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is 
what we do, what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and 
what we dare to imagine."--Senator Paul Wellstone
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kelly Ford" <kford at windows.microsoft.com>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>; "NFB-Web" 
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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] JAWS and IE7


> Is this on Vista or XP?  Can you check a setting for use of clear type, 
> although I've not seen this matter with JAWS.  Since you say JAWS 7.1 my 
> guess is XP.
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> Open Internet Options off the Tools menu, choose the advanced tab and go 
> down to an entry that talks about using clear type.  Uncheck this or 
> change the setting to off.  You'll need to restart IE.
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> Kelly
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
> Of Joe Orozco
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:46 PM
> To: NFBCS; NFB-Web
> Subject: [nfbcs] JAWS and IE7
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a difficulty with JAWS 7.1 and IE7.  Specifically, I cannot 
> read
> the information I enter into online forms.  I can read what I entered in
> edit fields if I turn on forms mode and read character by character.  If I
> turn off Forms Mode I only hear the edit prompt but no text inside.  If I
> select an item from a dropdown box, I only hear the first available choice
> but not what I selected, even though the screen is showing my selected
> choice.  Does this make sense?  I hope someone has some ideas on how to 
> slap
> JAWS around into reading properly, I would be much appreciative.  At first 
> I
> thought it was only a quirk of the Law School Admissions Council web site,
> but I have now seen this be a problem across several web sites.  Thanks 
> for
> your assistance.
>
> Joe Orozco
>
> "Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is
> what we do, what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and
> what we dare to imagine."--Senator Paul Wellstone
>
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