Hi Brendon,
As usual, I found a fix for myself, and, also as usual, I found it in consequence of the stimulation I received by submitting the question to the list. Smile The solution, as per the discussion in knowledge base article GWKB1003, is to set up a silent window covering the title bar, and a speak window covering the entire screen. As suggested, the silent window must have a smaller number, that is, higher precedence than the speak window. This way, no matter what editing I do in the MS Word 2010 macro editor, I no longer hear the title bar speaking. Incidentally, I have noticed that all of the 9.0 betas seem very sensitive to information being written to the screen, certainly more sensitive than any previous version of Window-Eyes. Overall, this is good, and yet it has created for me more than one situationd where I have had to do something to silence unwelcome speech. And, although I suspected that Skype was the problem, this was a guess based on past experience of MSAA interfaces. Thanks for your help, Rod From: Brendon Charles Donohue [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 3:22 PM To: 'Rod Hutton' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Auto Redraw 31/12/2014 Importance: High Rod, The best way to see if Skype is the issue here is to close Skype down completely and see if your issue continues. If it does, it is a bug that will have to be resolved by the AISquaired development team. Thank you. Brendon Donohue. From: Rod Hutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 5:42 AM To: 'Bill Belew'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Auto Redraw Hi Bill, I have Skype open all the time, and perhaps it has something to do with that. I’m not sure. Thanks, Rod From: Bill Belew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 1:10 PM To: 'Rod Hutton'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Auto Redraw I do not experience that behavior in Word 2010 using WE 9 beta 3. Bill From: Rod Hutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 6:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Auto Redraw Hi, I’ve noticed since the betas have come out that, while editing in the macro editor of MS Word 2010, the title bar is continually spoken unless I turn off Auto Redraw under General, Other. My question is whether this is a good solution to my problem, that is, is there any reason where I might miss information which might be updated on the screen. If so, is it better to create a silent speak window which covers the title bar? Actually, I cannot make the Auto Redraw setting stick, since if I toggle it off for MS Word, when I Alt-tab to another window and then back to MS Word, it toggles back On. Thanks for any suggestions, Rod 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.
