Hi Don: I have encountered the same thing. In fact, in Outlook WE just stopped responding but I did get it back up and focus had changed from the window ehere I was reading text of a message to the "From" field in the message headers. I was able to tab back to the message body. I have encountered something similar in using IE 11 with windows 8.1 and we 8.4. A couple of times I found myself in the top stuff where the url and some other IE related navigation links are - don't know what that area of the screen is called. A few times WE just stopps speaking and I do manage to close the browser, go to the Desktop and then reOpen the browser. Also, often when typing in the text box to search for a ie 11 string in the google accessibility page WE just wont read or speak anything inside the box with browse mode off. I have lost focus in a couple of other situations but these are the ones I remember since they happen enough to register with my old brain. Finally, if you have browse mode set to automatic you might arrow down over a control and get locked into it with no indication other than you might hear a sound to indicate WE has changed the browse mode. Even when I have automatic browse mode turned off often when I arrow over some controls we will speak nothing for a couple, few, down arrow strokes. Likely, this is a result of arrowing over some controls that don't have anything WE can recognize as text for the interactive object. Also, while down arrowing I quite often have focus stop reading, including read to end, and focus placed at the top of the page. Sometimes focus will return to where reading stopped but as often as not it jumps to the top of the page. Again, likely due to a page or something like perhaps a Ajax refresh or something - don'tknow. Like others I am looking forward to the next release of WE to see if any of these situations improve stability. Rick USA
-----Original Message----- From: Don H [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:41 AM To: gwmicro Subject: WE and browse mode Using WE 8.4 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine and using IE 11 and latest version of Firefox. On numerous web sites the page is loaded and I start using the down arrow to read the page line by line. After some random number of lines read correctly WE just stops talking. Pressing the down arrow produces no speech but in some cases continuing pressing the down arrow does scroll the page on the screen but no speech. Only way to get speech back is to close the browser and try again. Going back to same web site may or may not read correctly. 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. 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.
