this might be because of the windows scheme that is being used. but leabve this alone. grin. this will change all your system sound settings too. grin. any way mine does not say task switching when i open the run dialog. it says run. and it does this automatically. my run dialog does not have a set file associated with the run dialog. it is useing the default.set file. check this for all your set files. look in verbocity/common/activated and make sure speak titles is turned on. with this off the dialog boxes will not announce the titles. when i turned this off the title would not speak.
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Bahr Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: WE 8.4 stuck on task switching title in windows 8 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 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
