I am not sure your diagnosis is correct. It is easy to blame a feature in
which you are not familiar. Quick Keys are very productive and have been
copied by most screen readers. At some point you should give them a chance.
In Word, it niormally requires Control + N to open a new document and
JAWSKey (CapsLock for a laptop keyboard layout or Insert for a desktop
layout) + D to open the Dictionary Manager. Perhaps you have more thabn one
key on your keyboard sticking? Does it help to reboot the computer?
JAWS does not like to perform a repair from different updates downloaded
from the web. It works fine if you installed from the CD and never updated
from the web. But who ever does that? There are ways to force the repair.
I can not remember the details. I just uninstall the damaged version and
install again. You may need another version of JAWS installed or use
another screen reader to do this with speech.
Quick Keys can be turned off for the session in Internet Explorer by
pressing JAWSKey )CapsLock for a laptop keyboard, Insert for a desktop
layout) + N or in the "Adjust JAWS Verbosity" by pressing JAWSKey + V,
hitting the letter n until you hear "Navigation Keys"and hit Space until you
hear "off", then Enter.
Navigation Keys can also be turned off temporarily in Word by pressing
JAWSKey + Z or through the "Adjust JAWS Verbosity" by pressing JAWSKey + V,
hitting the letter E until you hear "Easy Navigation Keys"and hit Space
until you hear "off", then Enter.
To turn these off permanantly, open the Configuration Manager by pressing
JAWSKey + 6 in the numbers row, then press Control + Shift + D. Press Alt
+ S to open the "Settings" menu and press K to open the "Keyboard Options"
dialog. The first set of radio buttons controls the Quick Keys navigation
feature. Arrow down to "off" and hit Enter. Save the settings in
Configuration Manager by pressing Control + S, then close with Alt + F4.
Performing
Don Marang
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From: "Josh" <lawdog...@comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:22 PM
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Subject: [JAWS-Users] QUICK KEYS
All JAWS users,
My previous email may have been linked with the email I had sent a while
back regarding the pressing of a letter in a word document such as the
letter "N" would bring up a new document and the letter "D" would bring up
the JAWS dictionary. This is very annoying since many words contain the
letter "N" and the letter "D". My email earlier today was regarding quick
keys being turned off while on the internet. I am finding that quick keys
which I believe is the culprit to all my JAWS problems is being very
problematic for me. The response I received a while back was to run a JAWS
repair and see if that fixes the problem. Now my issue with running a JAWS
repair is where to go on the freedom scientific website to accomplish the
repair. I went to the JAWS 10 32 bit download and selected run from the
run or save menu. Then it got to the setup wizard and I selected next.
Each window I have checked for the repair option with no luck. I
eventually got to a point where it said it could not be installed because
it already exist. Please any help on this issue would be greatly
appreciated and please be very detailed in the instruction since I am
still fairly new to JAWS
My equipment: Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with XP (OS) running JAWS 10
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