Sherry, Make sure you are set to structured mode in the configuration manager. It sounds like it might be set to line mode.
Denny -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherry Gomes Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws 7.1 or 8, MS access and braille display Hi all, At work I am using jaws 7.1 pro. I work all day long in various microsoft access databases. When all the blind staff were upgraded to JAWS 8 a couple months ago, I had a lot of trouble with it in our databases and with the braille display and asked to go back to 7.1, which had worked quite well. The problem was that jaws was either reading too much in a record, such as reading every field in a form all at once, instead of reading each individual field as I tabbed through them. and it wasn't reading enough at other times. The braille display was showing far too much and not showing the necessary information. Here's an example. let's say I'm in a person's admissions record. I am tabbing through a phone interview form which has edit fields and combo boxes where I have to enter or select information. The person's name is john Smith. The braille display will show Smith, John, phone interview report and several other words but may not show me the actual field or the information I have entered or someone else has entered in the form. But jaws may read that current field and the next six all at once. So, I stayed with jaws 7.1, but something had gone crazy when we did the uninstall of 8. Yesterday, the IT people came and uninstalled all of JAWS and reinstalled only 7.1. And now, all those same problems are happening again. it is frustrating and slows down my work to some degree. I am trying to figure out if there is a setting or configuration I should change. I've checked and rechecked all the obvious ones like making sure highlighted text is checked for screen echo. There don't appear to be any verbosity options for Access when I bring up the verbosity dialog with insert V. If I'm going to have the same problems now that I did with jaws 8, I might as well let IT upgrade me to that one if I have to use internet explorer 7, as I mentioned in another post. Anyway, if anyone has any idea of what could be causing jaws to work this way or what I could do to change it, I'd be thrilled. I have worked in MS Access for years and never had this kind of problem. again, I'm currently using jaws 7.1 pro, windows XP pro,, MS access 2003 and a focus 40 braille display. Sherry Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php
