Check to make sure there isn't a screen saver or background interfering with JAWS. Also check your colors and such.
Sunny Day Maria Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] O God, help me to link my littleness to Your greatness, my faintheartedness to Your boldness, my fear to Your faith. Then nothing can stop me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginny Quick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 8:34 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Greetings and A Problem with Jaws > Greetings all. I'm having an interesting/strange problem with Jaws, and > I'm about at my wit's end trying to solve it. > > I installed Jaws on a Dell laptop which was given to me at work so I could > telecommute from home. We got Jaws up and running just fine, however, it > seems that Jaws is not reading things that it has read on every other > computer I have used (including the desktop I'm currently on). > > For example, if you take the Jaws cursor and move around the screen with > it (and I do with certain programs that aren't particular good iwth Jaws > but that I can get to work with Jaws, all I hear is "blank, blank, blank" > etc. > > Also Jaws is not reading me numbers/characters in edit boxes or the > address bar in IE. Also in dialogue boxes,it won't read me the names of > the tabs if there are any. > > I also have a Focus 40 Braille display and it's not showing me anything on > that either. > > At first, I thought it was some program or box obscuring the screen, but > now I'm not so sure, as it's a problem that I'm seeing not only on the > desktop but as I said in edit boxes and dialogue boxes too. > > I've made sure there's no active desktop, changed my display settings to > "windows classic", made sure jaws was running as a service, and now I'm > not sure what to do, oh yes, I even uninstalled and reinstalled Jaws, and > Jaws is running the most current update posted 05/22/2008, I think. > > The only other thing I can think to do is to fire up the laptop and have > my husband look to see if there's something, some kind of program or > toolbar or something obscuring the desktop. And oh yes, the quick launch > toolbar is disabled too. > > I'm hoping someone can help me as I need to get this working because this > could interfere with my ability to do my job effectively once I'm allowed > to telecommute, which I don't think they'll let me do until I figure this > problem out. > > Also, has anyone used a program called Aventail, it seems to run through > your browser allowing you to connect to your work's network or something, > it's like a way to log into your work's resources securely or osmething > like that and work from anyone. Thta seems to work OK with Jaws, but > again, I need to fix whatever is preventing me from seeing my jaws cursor > because one program in particular, I really need to have that... > > Anyway, any thoughts/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Ginny > > > -- > Visit my blog at: http://www.ginnysthoughts.com > > If you want to V-Me (call me) click here: > https://v-me.vonage.com/quickgm32 > > If you are a Vonage customer you can set up your V-Me service by clicking > here: > https://v-me.vonage.com/ > > Powered by VONAGE > www.vonage.com > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
