Hello, Hope this will solve your problem. I had the same problem, if you have a wireless keyboard try to reset it with the receiver. first press the button on the receiver then the button under your keyboard simultaneously. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Trouble with JAWS not reading menu bar items
> Just to cover the obvious - make sure that Jaws screen echo is set to read > highlighted. You can toggle through these settings by pressing insert + > S. > The options are none, all and highlighted. If your screen echo is set to > none, the menus will not be read. > > Other things to try > > Set verbosity to beginner -I had a problem with menu reading once and > adjusting screen echo did not help. For some reason going back to beginner > verbosity solved the problem. I have stayed on this ever since. > > Apart from that I would restore default settings by repairing and or > reinstalling. There is a way of restoring defaults without running a > repair > but I cannot remember the process. I think it involves retrieving a file > and > renaming this as default.jcf. Someone from Sight and sound Tech did this > on my Jaws setup once and solved a problem. Someone else on the list may > know how to do this. > > Best of luck > > David Griffith > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike > Williamson > Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2008 16:30 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Trouble with JAWS not reading menu bar items > > I believe some other folks had this issue but I was not able to find the > discussion in the archives, so I'm gonna ask again. I've got a student > who > recently put JAWS 9 (9.0.519 to be exact) on his new laptop which is > running > XP Home and when he's using MS Word '03, JAWS fails to read the menu bar > items and the submenu items. Can anyone tell me how to correct this. > Like > I said I know it was discussed earlier, so I apologize for reposting. > > Mike Williamson > Technology Specialist > TCRC Sight Center > 309.698-4001 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > 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 > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
