I had to transmit to a modern machine, and ended up with a Windows8.1
OS. Here, I am running Firefox and ThunderBird. At least for the moment.
I do experience a good amount of extra chatter from the speech synth,
that I did not have under XP, and which I do see absolutely no good
reason for. Hopefully, someone can tell me the use of it, and maybe how
to get rid of it, in case there is no real use for it.
First of all, when in Thunderbird, on each and every message I open, I
hear the phrase
Application Main Window.
OK, What do I care? And, if I did, why did I not get a hotkey to call
for that info. Reading through as much as 50 mails, and every mail
tells me this phrase, I don't know what good that is going to do, other
than making my ears go heywire. :)
The same phrase keeps chattering in my ears, in Firefox. Neither here,
do I see any benefit whatsoever for that annoying extra info. If GW
really finds it necessary, why not let it be spoken when you hit the
CTRL-Shift-T, for getting the window title.
Is there any known fix for this?
Another troublesome issue that I am experiencing, is when hitting
Alt-Tab. Sometimes, all I hear, is
Task Switching.
OK, so I do know, that I am switching task. Actually, that is what I
intended to do, when hitting the key-combo. But what good does it give
me to be told that, when it does not tell me which task - or window - I
am switching to. Sometimes, it does tell me the window title and other
times not. Seems like a restart of WE usually will fix the issue, but I
still don't see why this extra phrase. We lived fine without it under
XP, so what is so important about it in Windows8, Please? Hope for an
explanation, as that may help me appreciate why it keeps seeking to wear
my ears off.
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