I HAVE NOT RECENTLY SEEN SCREEN READER ISSUES WITH SCREENN SAVERS BUT
THEN I'VE NOLT FULLY TESTED JAWS OR WINDOW EYES IN THIS REGARD
LATELY. I DID SET UP A COUPLE OF SYSTEMS RECENTLY THOUGH AND THE
ONLY WAY I KNOEW THAT THERE WAS A SCREENN SAVER RUNNING WAS THAT WHEN
I TAPPED THE SPACE BAR OR A KEY AFTER A BIT OF INACTIVITY, THE SCREEN
CAME BACK TO LIFE OR I LOOKED IN THE SCREEN SAVERS LIST AND SAW THAT
ONEE WAS CONFIGURED WITH A DEFAULT TIME SHORT. THE ONLY TIME A
SCREEN SAVER SHOULD ACTIVATE IS WHEN THERE IS INACTIVITY.
UNFORTUNATELY, WE LIVE IN A SHARED WORLD SO WE HAVE TO ALLOW FOR SOME
WIGGLE ROOM SO THAT OUR LOVED ONES CAN PARTICIPATE FULLY WITH US..
On Mar 26, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Harry/ Linda Bates wrote:
For a blind person using a computer of any kind it is always best to
have no screen saver at all. The picture interferes with the screen
reader on several levels. It slows down the screen reader by having
it try to interpret a graphic and I visited a web page that had a
sceen of autumn falling leaves, and that really made the screen
reader jump around a lot, since the screen reader tried to interpret
the falling leaves. Of course it could not. At first I thought my
computer was broke. It was not broken. It was just trying to do its
thing.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman"
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Screensaver
Richie, the way to keep your screen reader for your wife and to be
able to read long documents is to set it to almost never come on.
On Mar 25, 2007, at 10:42 PM, Marshall F. Scott wrote:
Richie,
I just turn off the monitor or turn down the brightbness on my
laptop. The only other thing a screen saver does is give you a
convienent way of securing your machine if you need that capability.
Marshall
On Mar 24, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Bejarano wrote:
Hello,
I've thought about turning my screen saver off, too, but I've been
concerned that this would hurt the screen (e.g., by burning it
out). I understand this used to be a problem with old cathode ray
tubes, but I don't know if it's also a problem for LCD displays.
As it's never been a high priority issue, I've never inquired
into it, but since you're bringing it up, I thought you might
clarify whether or not turning screen savers off might also hurt
LCD displays.
Cordially,
Rafael Bejarano
On Mar 24, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
Do any of you leave your screensavers on? I ask this because I
turned mine off, in order for me to read a rather lengthy
publication I receive electronically, and in the middle of the
reading, the Screensaver was activated, so I went into the
System Preferences and turned it off. I then went back to the
publication and it read just fine. My wife loves the
screensaver, but it means nothing to me, so I turned it off. I
just wondered if any of you use yours for anything? Richie
Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
Marshall F. scott
University of Utah - CVRTI
95 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Phone: (801) 587-9523
Fax: (801) 581-3128
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype: scott9576a
