That’s odd; and some keystrokes are disabled by default on some Dells. My mother’s Studio SPS15 is like that; the normal commands for file, edit, and the menu bar don’t have enabled shortcuts. You have to press Alt and then arrow left and right for the menus to speak, and not to mention, those keystrokes are windows keystrokes, so they work for sighted people too, and they don’t work for her. That’s how I know they are disabled in BIOS or something. Alt F4 doesn’t work either screen reader running or not, and even a sighted person can use that. And try miscellaneous in the punctuation settings for WE.
From: sandra fouts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: my apostraphy key Hi. My apostraphy key will not speak no matter what I seem to do. In fact I just spelled tou the word, apostraphy, so you would know what I’m talking about. It drives me crazy when I hit it and it does not speak. I have a new 17 inch inspiron from dell. I have We 7.5.4.1 on i t with windows 7 on it. Any ideas? I don’t know if there is something I need to do, or if for reason the key is not working the way it should do. Although it seems to be actually making an apostraphy. I mean I can rat write a word like don’t etc. Also, the alt key just to the right of the space bar doesn’t do do everything. Only certin things. Back to the apostraphy key. If I hit the apostraphy key which does not speak, the letters right after the apostraphy, don’t speak until I hit the space bar. Any ideas? Thanks.ß If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
