I may be having a similar problem come to think of it with word 2003 and Jaws. If I type a word and/or line and then try to read it with insert-up arrow. no go. If I arrow up or down, it just says blank. If I go up to the top and start again, I can read it fine. It drives me nuts at work. I'm using word 2000 at home, and I didn't have this problem when I began to use 2003. Sharon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Annette Carr Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Jaws losing focus in word 2003
I had this problem occasionally in JAWS 6.x, but it got significantly worse with JAWS 7 and 8. On my home laptop I think there is a correlation between the location of the mouse pointer and JAWS loosing focus. So I move the mouse in a diagonal direction multiple time to move the pointer into one of the corners of the screens. Of course I have no idea if it really got there, but I' give it my best shot. Then I refresh the screen. This seems to help. Do you use braille or Large print. If so, maybe you can get a hardcopy blank template of the form so that you can ensure you are catching all of the fields. Or maybe you can make a list of the fields in the order which they appear on the form so that again, you can keep track of what you are filling in. HTH, Annette ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jason smith Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws losing focus in word 2003 Hi everyone, thanks to everyone who helped me with my log-in screen problem at work. I got it worked out. Although, one time when trying to log in again, Jaws seemed to not read the item I was on properly. Hopefully this wont happen again. The problem I have now, is on a similar topic i.e Jaws losing focus. Atwork, we have several forms we have to access and fill information in on each client. I find that I am having to constantly refresh the screen for Jaws to correctly report which part of the form I am on. I have experienced this loss of focus issue on my desktop at home for several months now. At work it seems even worse though. While I try to deal with this on forms that I know, it will be a major issue on those forms I am less familiar with. I can't afford to be putting information into the wrong sections, or missing parts altogether, because I am not aware of them because of Jaws. It is one thing for it to happen with my uni studies, where I have more time to go back over work, but with my counselling and mediation work, it is not acceptable as it slows my work progress down a lot. Both my home desktop and work desktop are running word 2003. I am also using Jaws 8.0 on both. My work is running windows XP professional. While at home, I am using windows XP home. Is anyone else having this same problem, or know what I can do? Like I said, I refresh the screen, alt tab away and back again, use left or right arrows and even close and re-open word again, to keep getting Jaws to refocus. Sometimes I end up deleting work I need, Because Jaws is reading it to me wrong, or I end up typing things twice, because I don't think it is there. It is getting very frustrating. I don't remember it being an issue until about Jaws 7.0 and even then, not till a few months after using it. Hope to hear from someone soon thanks Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ In order to contact the management team simply fill out the following form found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/contact.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
