Hi, all. We recently got a netbook, and Window-Eyes worked well with it
(it's a Toshiba, I forget which model). Anyway, I could arrow around and
hear all my menus and stuff, just like on a big computer. I upgraded to
Window-Eyes 7.11 right before leaving on vacation, so didn't have time to
test the upgrade with the computer. When we got to our destination, we
discovered that our netbook didn't have an internal modem, so we went out
and bought one, along with a CD rom to install it. (We only had access to
dial-up at our location.) When I was finally able to get online with the
netbook, I discovered that the commands that had previously worked no longer
worked. I couldn't jump to the top of a list of messages and arrow down the
list. If I tried to do so, I'd hear just the current message, and then
folders and contacts and things like that. Since I had done so many
upgrades and installations and stuff, I just dealt with it as best I could
until I could come home and see how WE 7.11 behaved on my regular computer,
and how the netbook behaved on a wireless connection. Well, 7.11 works
great on my desktop, but it still has the same problem on the netbook; or
rather I still have the same problem with the netbook. I had my sighted
husband watch me arrowing up and down what should have been a list of
messages, but they weren't scrolling. And the weird thing is that when I'd
tab over to Window-Eyes, it would just say "Window-Eyes", and not say
anything about anything being active or any files being associated with
anything. A port setting in Outlook Express had also gotten changed, and
that I was able to fix. But I'm not quite sure what to do next. My husband
saw that the arrows weren't making the messages scroll, or whatever they do.
And when I'd right click on a message, he'd see the context menu, but WE
would read totally unrelated things as I arrowed up and down with the
context menu. So I don't know if this is a WE problem, an Outlook Express
problem, a netbook problem, or problem with one of its settings. Or maybe a
whole bunch of stuff got corrupted somehow. Another thing I've noticed is
that, before I open Outlook Express, the arrow keys seem to work fine; but
once I open O.E., the arrow keys stop working. And if I try to use
control-f to forward a message from within the message, I get the find
dialog; I have to use that command from outside the message. If I hit C to
go to edit boxes and stuff, it just says "no combo box". If I hit X to look
for text, it says "no checkbox". I thought maybe I had the JAWS keyboard
enabled, but it shows standard.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to unscramble this mess?
Should I reinstall WE and see if it will read enough to help me fix
everything else? Should I go through and re-associate all the programs I
use with WE, so that it knows it's supposed to be associated with something?
Or should I assume it's a netbook problem that's causing WE to do what it's
doing? I'm just not sure where to start in unraveling this mess.
Peggy
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