Hi. the subject of laptop touchpads is interesting. It is far too easy for the sighted and blind alike to touch the pad while typing. My sighted wife has been using laptops for nearly nine years and has always mentioned that the cursor may jump from time to time. I've also noticed this a bit when I use laptops with touchpads. I've been using a Thinkpad from IBM and it only has the stick pointing device. I've never had it jump at all. I think you can make the touchpad do something even with the slightest touch or having a thumb too close to the darn thing. Touchpads are convenient but can even be hard to control for sighted users.
----- Original Message ----- From: Chip Orange To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:29 AM Subject: RE: WE7.1 AND WESERV.EXE ok Richard. if you have a laptop, and you're hearing randomly spoken bits of text, I think it's worth keeping in mind the idea that the problem may be a malfunctioning pointing device on the laptop. I did do several things at once, including disabling my laptop mousepad, and so far my limited testing shows the problem to be gone. eventually I'll need to re-enable the laptop pointing device to see if it comes back. Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Bartholomew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: WE7.1 AND WESERV.EXE Hi, Chip >> Do you often hear the word "left", and then find the text you've been typing is all scrambled, because the insert pointer has jumped all around, and you've been typing different bits into different locations of the message or of the file? Not so far but, then again, I haven't done a lot of typing whilst it's been like this! All I can say, therefore, is that it hasn't happened to date. --- Regards Richard Bartholomew E-Mail: [email protected] From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 July 2009 17:02 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: WE7.1 AND WESERV.EXE Richard, I want to see if your new problem is the same as the one I have on my laptop: Do you often hear the word "left", and then find the text you've been typing is all scrambled, because the insert pointer has jumped all around, and you've been typing different bits into different locations of the message or of the file? I have been intermittently plagued by a problem like this, and it has the feel as if someone has been grabbing the mouse pointer and clicking all around in the window I'm working in. hearing the word "left" randomly spoken is my only clue. I thought this was a malfunction in the mousepad of my laptop, but maybe not if you're having the exact same problem. thanks. Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Bartholomew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:52 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: WE7.1 AND WESERV.EXE Hi, After stating categorically last night that I was having few problems, I've now hit one and am regretting tempting fate! <smile> This morning, I installed an update to the Webbie package and, since then, something appears to be grabbing focus every few seconds, eg as though a process is kicking into life in the background. For example, when in Outlook 2007, both whilst reading a message or simply on the message list, the word "graphic" will be spoken periodically. When in Windows Explorer and arrowing up or down a list of files, the file onto which I'm arrowing doesn't speak but some other information is spoken. At this point, the only applications which are running are Outlook 2007, Live Messenger and Windows Explorer - as well, of course, as WE7.1! I've unloaded WE and loaded another screenreader and looked at the running processes in Task Manager and see that WESERV.EXE is present. Is this process connected with WE, please, and, if so, should it still be loaded/running when WE isn't? Alternatively, I've seen some references from a Google search suggesting it may be a trojan etc. This is under XP Home, SP3. Any suggestions gratefully received before I go ahead with various remedies, eg removing the WESERV.EXE process and/or uninstalling Webbie. 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