This started happening on my laptop running Vista about 6 weeks ago. Every
time I hit alt tab to rotor through open programs I hear Task Switching.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <[email protected]>
To: "Dave Bahr" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: WE 8.4 stuck on task switching title in windows 8
Yep, experiencing it with Win7 64bit pro. Even happens rather often, and
is no less than anoying, agree with you there. It even says "task
switching" followed by the window name, when it Alt-tabs throuth the list
of open windows, and it is not stuck on the Task Switching. Other times,
it gets stuck, and all you hear when alt-tabbing is "TaskSwitching" and
nothing else. Definitely needs a fix.
David
On 10/21/2014 2:48 PM, Dave Bahr wrote:
Hi. For some time now, I have noticed that Window-Eyes has this annoying
habit of not pronouncing the current window when I open up an
application. For example, if I press the Windows key plus r to open the
run dialog box, the box opens but Window-Eyes doesn't speak the title. I
couldn't figure out why this was going on and never thought to push the
Windows title hotkey (control shift T.) It was only then that I
discovered that the title of the window was listed as "task switching."
This is an extreme annoyance which had been brought up on the list before
but I don't know if there have been any resolutions to the problem. So,
in this case, Window-Eyes is getting stuck on this "task switching"
window. The only way I've found to get out of it is to press some other
key like the tab key. However, it seems to also render the mouse cursor
useless. This is especially evident when opening the properties of a file
or folder, realizing that you are stuck in the purgatory of "task
switching," pressing tab (which would have your cursor on a checkbox
which Window-Eyes would not speak), going to the top left of the window
with your mouse cursor and trying to read down which yields nothing. This
behavior is intermittent, sometimes WE is fine and switches windows and
reads them fine. other times, it gets stuck. This "task switching" thing
of course always comes up when you alt tab. Again, this was brought up
earlier on the list, but I'm not sure of a resolution. I searched the
archives and couldn't seem to find anything. Perhaps I missed something?
So, it looks like if I alt tab from one window to another, Window--Eyes
will read the windows around it but not speak the text of the current
one. This does not have to do with any apps that I have installed because
they're currently off. Is anybody else experienced this rather irksome
behavior? If so, some enlightenment would be much appreciated. Thanks,
Dave
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