Hi the reason for this is window-eyes would scan the system tray icon buy icon trying to get each tool tip. This was time consuming and not always reliable. Now window-eyes asks the system tray threw msaa what is there giving you a instant view of the tray and it is much more reliable. The problem is there is a long standing bug that the documented way of getting system tray icons does not always name each icon. Jaws ignores these unnamed icons while window-eyes does not.
Hth -----Original Message----- From: meadowlark77 [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 7:35 AM To: jim grimsby Jr. Subject: RE: how do I get Window-Eyes to not say "Unnamed" Is that how it is? I had not had this situation until 7.0. Hmmmm. Interesting. Take care, Brenda At 12:09 AM 12/13/2008, jim grimsby Jr. said >This is a known Microsoft problem. At some point I hope they will fix it. >the new method of getting tray icons means that window-eyes will be more >reliable getting them. The drawback is of course that when you run in to >this situation where the name is not exposed to msaa you will get the >information that these icons are unnamed. > >-----Original Message----- >From: meadowlark77 [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 6:50 PM >To: jim grimsby Jr. >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: RE: how do I get Window-Eyes to not say "Unnamed" > >Jim, I did exactly what you said and it worked. What was happening is >that it wasn't saying "Local Area Connection" any more and I couldn't >see the status of things because of that, but when you said to right >click it, that did the trick. Thank you. > >Brenda > >At 08:14 PM 12/12/2008, jim grimsby Jr. said > >Hi not sure I am understanding your question. > >If you are talking about the system tray then you just right click on the > >icon. The next time it should have a name. hope Microsoft fixes this one > >soon. > >-----Original Message----- > >From: meadowlark77 [mailto:[email protected]] > >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 5:43 PM > >To: Marvin Commerford > >Cc: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: how do I get Window-Eyes to not say "Unnamed" > > > >Nothing is working. I even tried to see it when you tab to the system > >tray and try to read the buttons. Well, tell ya what! It doesn't even > >show up then. Not sure where to go to from here. I can't hit > >CTRL-Shift-e to edit dictionaries like that either. Hmmmm. Now, where to? > > > >Take care and thanks, > > > >Brenda > > > >At 07:14 PM 12/12/2008, Marvin Commerford said > > >Hi. You can try a couple of things. These icons don't label well > > >until the mouse goes over them. So, you can route the mouse to the > > >item with ins-numpad plus. I've also had luck by pressing the > > >application or context key while arrowing through the tray > > >list. Use the escape to get out of the connections tray. Also, > > >sometimes the ins-s will bring these to life as well. It's a bit of > > >a crap shoot with tray icons though. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "meadowlark77" <[email protected]> > > >To: <[email protected]> > > >Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:22 PM > > >Subject: how do I get Window-Eyes to not say "Unnamed" > > > > > > > > >>Hello. How do I get Window-Eyes 7.01 to not say "Unnamed"? > > >>Obviously the icon has a name to it. At any rate, what it is is > > >>that in the system tray, my network connection icon is there, so I > > >>can see the status of connections. Window-Eyes 6.1 used to say: > > >> > > >>"Local Area connection" > > >> > > >>and then it would give me the status. But now, I only get: > > >> > > >>"Unnamed". > > >> > > >>Is there a way to label that? Thanks, in advance, > > >> > > >>Brenda > > >> > > >>If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > > >>sender only. 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