Hi. This isn't completely true. I've had it happen both ways to me in
the past so I know what I'm talking about in this case. The way you're
talking about is one of the things that can happen. The other is that
video intercept is installed, but not currently working properly. The
result of it just not working properly is that it doesn't read certain
things, notably the names of tabs in some multi page dialogue boxes,
like Windows Task Manager and also that the JAWS cursor just reads
blank blank all the time. This problem can be brought about in a variety
of different intricate ways, but most common is that something changed
in video settings. Resolution changes for instance. A few laptops start
the problem if they are put into and later brought out of stand by or
sleep depending which OS, or hibernation. Some will do it if they
support docking stations and happen to get hooked into one or removed
from it. There are some Linovo computers that are really bad for this
for some reason. I've even seen it happen if a certain program throws up
a window that is transparent but which takes foreground or if a program
throws up a notification window that isn't part of the task bar or alt
tab loop. If you try to use the jaws cursor it may just read that
window, not read anything, read mixes of tidbits from the window you
want and that window and possibly a window you don't even want to hear
anything about, or just read properly like you wanted. Mcafee Anti Virus
for instance does this a lot.
Win7 and Vista are supposed to be better about it because of mirror
driver instead of video chaining, but It still happens there too every
now and then.
Restarting JAWS or the whole computer might fix it.
Although VIP Mud doesn't require the JAWS cursor anyway, you use the
read only edit window to read, which you can reach by pressing tab from
the input window. It's still possible for video intercept problems to
mess up that sort of situation, though I don't know if JAWS relies on
video intercept to read that particular window in VIP Mud. I kind of
doubt it but I have seen it make other read only fields show up as blank
when they weren't before. Usually I just restart JAWS when it happens to
me and that fixes it.
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On 11/16/2011 12:24 PM, Trouble wrote:
If it was a jaws video intercept problem. Then jaws wouldn't work at
all and state a video intercept not installed.
At 11:15 AM 11/16/2011, you wrote:
Hi.
I think you have a JAWS video intercept problem. Are you on Alter
Aeon or skype?
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On 11/16/2011 7:07 AM, Kim Friedman wrote:
Hi, I'd like to get messages from those who do role playing and/or
mudding because this is something I'd like to learn how to do and I am
having a quite difficult time even making the attempt to do so. For one
thing, my screen reader (Jaws 13) hasn't been working with the one MUD
client I have (VIP MUD) because if I use the arrow keys from within a
game, it's as if the screen is blank and there's nothing there even
though text may be on the screen. The MUD client also seems to
disconnect at the drop of a hat, so I feel as if I'm in Dickens'
circumlocution office (Reference, Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, in
which the hapless person is going round in circles and backwards at the
same time, in short, going nowhere at all). It doesn't do any good to
tell me to try different Mud clients out as I have no idea how to
determine if I like them or not. (You're talking to the one who doesn't
know what to do with the Mud client she already has, let alone any
others which might be used by the blind.) As far as I know, there is
absolutely no literature on the subject for rank beginners like myself.
I can't seem to get beyond first base in playing an RPG because of this
MUD client problem. The text (if it does come) arrives in great clumps
and as I said, I can't even review what's there to make any decisions.
Please help me out as I am seriously frustrated about this whole
situation. Regards, Kim Friedman. P.S.: I'd like also to know if the
Iron Realms games are regarded as accessible (games are Achaea,
Aetolia,
Lusternia, Emperion, and Midkemia [the last based on Raymond E. Feist's
novels).) K.
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