Hi Adrian, The problem I had was of my own creation, & that's why I knew exactly where to go to get Jaws to start announcing the, Safe To Remove Hardware: The 'USB Mass Storage Device' device can now be safely removed from the computer., dialog again. The culprit was what I explained in my original post. It just took some experimentation to find which of the icons I changed the status of in Taskbar properties to nail down the icon that was causing the, Safe To Remove Hardware: The 'USB Mass Storage Device' device can now be safely removed from the computer. , dialog to not be spoken by Jaws. The Safely Remove Hardware icon was in the system tray, & wasn't the problem, but an icon that I hid in Taskbar properties was what caused the problem of Jaws not speaking the, Safe To Remove Hardware: The 'USB Mass Storage Device' device can now be safely removed from the computer, dialog. Now, if that explanation wasn't more difficult to comprehend than any of the legal lingo you've read in your legal days, I just don't know how to make it any easier! LOL
In all honesty, give me a call, & I'll show you exactly what I mean via your Taskbar properties. We won't change anything, but it'll just be easier to understand as I walk you through it. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. Early to bed, early to rise, keep my iHemorrhoids from being a surprise. ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Safe To Remove Hardware, Not Being Announced By Jaws, A Possible Fix Mike, here are notes I made to myself when I encountered the same problem long ago. I'd try to have them make more sense, but I'm not experiencing the problem and so can't try to replicate it in order to go through the steps before posting this. I hope you can get somewhere with them. System tray, JAWS can't read icon You can cycle through the system tray and clock with Windows+b, then left and right arrows. When JAWS speaks chevron, it is on an item that is otherwise invisible to JAWS. I pressed applications key and got a serious of options. Spacebar and enter on the icon did nothing. If a message pops up while navigating, press the JAWS left mouse button. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:37 PM To: Jaws-Users List Subject: [JAWS-Users] Safe To Remove Hardware, Not Being Announced By Jaws, A Possible Fix Hi All, Running Windows 7 Pro & Jaws 15 thru 18. I was hiding several icons in the notification area of the Taskbar properties, & after doing so Jaws quit announcing the Safe To Remove dialogue. The Safe To Remove icon was showing in the system tray, but Jaws just wouldn't announce the Safe To Remove dialogue after clicking on a drive I wanted to remove. Below is what I did to fix it. When attempting to remove drives from the system tray via the, Safe To Remove Hardware icon, & Jaws doesn't make the Safe To Remove announcement, & all your settings for sounds are correct try the following: 1. Open the Taskbar properties, tab to the, Notification Area Customize button, & press the spacebar to open. 2. Tab to the, Windows host process (Rundll32) Combo box icon, & if the, Hide Icon And Notifications, is highlighted this is probably the most likely reason Jaws isn't announcing the Safe To Remove Hardware dialogue. 3. Arrow up / down & highlight either the, Show Icon In Notifications, or the, Only Show Notifications option. 4. Tab to, Okay, press the spacebar, again tab to, Okay, press enter to save & close. This happened to me & doing the above steps fixed the problem. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. Early to bed, early to rise, keep my iHemorrhoids from being a surprise. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
