I too am having the same problem that others have mentioned. I thought it was just with my Dell laptop, but with all the postings, I'm sure that there are other makes. I have been trouble free for the past two weeks. I went into the mouse properties and played with some of the settings there. If you press shift F1, you will get a brief help message that can give you some clues as to whether this check box may help. This problem is so frustrating. For a while, I went back to Word 2000, but it seems that I had trouble working or reading tables with that version. David. David Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:03 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Jaws losing focus in word 2003
>I may be having a similar problem come to think of it with word 2003 and > Jaws. If I type a word and/or line and then try to read it with insert-up > arrow. no go. If I arrow up or down, it just says blank. If I go up to the > top and start again, I can read it fine. It drives me nuts at work. I'm > using word 2000 at home, and I didn't have this problem when I began to > use > 2003. > Sharon > -----Original Message----- > From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Annette Carr > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:23 AM > To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Jaws losing focus in word 2003 > > > I had this problem occasionally in JAWS 6.x, but it got significantly > worse with JAWS 7 and 8. On my home laptop I think there is a correlation > between the location of the mouse pointer and JAWS loosing focus. So I > move > the mouse in a diagonal direction multiple time to move the pointer into > one > of the corners of the screens. Of course I have no idea if it really got > there, but I' give it my best shot. Then I refresh the screen. This > seems > to help. > > Do you use braille or Large print. If so, maybe you can get a hardcopy > blank template of the form so that you can ensure you are catching all of > the fields. Or maybe you can make a list of the fields in the order which > they appear on the form so that again, you can keep track of what you are > filling in. > > HTH, > Annette > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jason smith > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:16 AM > To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws losing focus in word 2003 > > > Hi everyone, > thanks to everyone who helped me with my log-in screen problem at work. I > got it worked out. Although, one time when trying to log in again, Jaws > seemed to not read the item I was on properly. Hopefully this wont happen > again. The problem I have now, is on a similar topic i.e Jaws losing > focus. > Atwork, we have several forms we have to access and fill information in on > each client. I find that I am having to constantly refresh the screen for > Jaws to correctly report which part of the form I am on. I have > experienced > this loss of focus issue on my desktop at home for several months now. At > work it seems even worse though. While I try to deal with this on forms > that > I know, it will be a major issue on those forms I am less familiar with. I > can't afford to be putting information into the wrong sections, or missing > parts altogether, because I am not aware of them because of Jaws. It is > one > thing for it to happen with my uni studies, where I have more time to go > back over work, but with my counselling and mediation work, it is not > acceptable as it slows my work progress down a lot. Both my home desktop > and > work desktop are running word 2003. I am also using Jaws 8.0 on both. My > work is running windows XP professional. While at home, I am using windows > XP home. Is anyone else having this same problem, or know what I can do? > Like I said, I refresh the screen, alt tab away and back again, use left > or > right arrows and even close and re-open word again, to keep getting Jaws > to > refocus. Sometimes I end up deleting work I need, Because Jaws is reading > it > to me wrong, or I end up typing things twice, because I don't think it is > there. It is getting very frustrating. I don't remember it being an issue > until about Jaws 7.0 and even then, not till a few months after using it. > Hope to hear from someone soon > thanks Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ In order to contact the management team simply fill out the following form found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/contact.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
