This will happen if task manager is set to be on top or if it is
covering the window that you are trying to read. We are working to
reduce our reliance on our OSM in cases where we can which will help
with this issue.
At 11:47 AM 8/31/2011, you wrote:
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: <mailto:[email protected]>David
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[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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