I don't know the cause, but I know one cause for this behavior. I've seen it many times. It happens on laptops when the touchpad has not been disabled. It's very easy to brush against the touchpad with the palm of your hand when typing. That makes the cursor jump around. The user has no idea this is happening. Let me be clear, I don't think this is the only cause of this behavior, but it is definitely one cause. I've seen it more times than I can count.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:39 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word text moving on its own And if you talk to FS, they will swear they have never in their lives seen that behavior. On 7/21/16, Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7200) <courtney.l.r...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Hmmm, I've had this happen even in Notepad. > > > Courtney > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] > On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 5:58 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] MS Word text moving on its own > > Wayne, > > I'm afraid this is not very helpful, but I know exactly what you are > talking about because it has happened to me too and not just in Word. > I've had the same thing happen in Outlook. I'll be typing along then > when I go back to proof what I've written, I sometimes find portions > of my text in a completely different paragraph or line from where I intended. > > I haven't been able to figure out any pattern regarding when this > occurs making it sort of random which is why I have never mentioned it on the list. > I had a half-baked theory that I was inadvertently hitting some key on > my Braille display that was causing the cursor to jump, but I just don't know. > Are you using a Braille display when this text jumping happens to you? > > If anyone else has seen this behavior, I'd like to hear about your > experience. Maybe we can figure out what's going on and report it to > FS or whatever the heck they're calling themselves these days. <grin> > > Kimberly > > Sent from Kimber's iPad > >> On Jul 20, 2016, at 4:54 PM, wayne smith >> <waynesoundsm...@earthlink.net> >> wrote: >> >> I need some of you big brains! I have an MS Word 2007 doc that is >> about 250 pages long. At some points when I write the text sometimes >> it appears in the middle of a different paragraph from the one I am >> working on. This happens often but it seems to be inconsistent. I >> am using JAWS 15. Any thoughts would be welcome. >> >> >> >> Wayne >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > -- Kimberly For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
