Yes, the taskmanager is a good example of cases when this occurs.
Also offlist, I have received feedback, that more than me finds these Dings
anoying. Hopefully GW will get on with this. Has been there for long time, if
not always. So might even be a basic problem in WE's way of handling screen
information.
----- Original Message -----
From: net bat
To: gwm
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: When WE plings at me -
i get the same thing when i leave the task manager open useing control shift
escape. and try to use windows mail. w e 7.51 will not read the text as i type
or back arrow over the text until i close the task manager.
sometimes i leave the vista task manager open because of all the times fire
fox crashes and i loose speech until i close firefox.
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:00 AM
Subject: When WE plings at me -
Quite frequently, I am experiencing this behavior. And, if I am to judge
from the messages on this list, I doubt I am on my own. Yet I don't see any
good reason why it has to be that way; hence wonder if this is a bug that GW
could have paid some attention to. I can't remember ever having the problem
with my former screen reader, so it definatley seems to me, to be a WE problem.
Rather often, when in some kind of an edit box, be it in a message that I
am writing under Outlook Express, an edit box on a webpage, or like this
morning, in the address field of Windows Explorer. Well, I even have seen it in
Notepad. You can type the text you want. With keyboard echo set to WORDS, you
will hear the text as you type. And, if you don't do anything but typing, and
then sending it off to the recipient or the webpage or whatever by hitting
Enter, everything seems just fine. But, if you start to edit your entry, by
using the arrow-keys, or the Backspace or Delete key, all you get is a DING.
Really helpful! Or should we rather be honest, and tell it to be no less than
anoying!
OK, I do know: This is the Error-sound from Windows itself. But that
doesn't help here. Since the text gets entered correct - and if you are good at
keeping track of what you are doing, you even can edit the field (in blindness,
litterally) - apparently there is no error going on, hence no need for Windows
to DING at you. If now, I experience this behavior, and stop my current
activity, then Alt-Tab through the list of open windows. Well, what do I find?
In quite a number of cases, it proves to be the fact, that some kind of window
has popped up. You will - for instance - see this behavior if the update window
of Adobe Flash has come up. Or, this morning it took place, because the update
manger of my HP system had popped up - kind of in the background. Once this
kind of popup-windows has been closed, the edit field works as normal, with the
speech reporting to me what I am actually doing.
Again, since I can't remember seeing this with other screen readers, and
combined with the fact that the editing apparently goes through - long as you
can do it without having any other feedback but a load of DINGS - I do claim
this to be a trouble that stems from WE and its way of handling the screen,
whenever a popup is present. And why? What good is there in a screen reader,
when it produces DINGS, even when the information on the screen - in the edit
box - actually gets properly updated.
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