Hello Mitch: Do not blame JAWS2018 for that; the fact is that Windows changes are coming at great speed down the pike, so are changes to browsers and websites. Jaws is just trying to keep up. Technology in general is evolving at such a quick pace that it is hard for sighted persons to keep up, much worse for us.
Regards, Humberto -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 4:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Temporary loss of speech I have pondered, as a long time but casual user of JAWS, if the program is approaching the status of “too big to succeed: The recent collection of user complaints with a variety of serial frustrations with J2018 seems to support my concerns. I have a new high-performance Dell Desktop so stressing the requirements of the JAWS program is not the problem. And so I guess the SMA dance will roll on. All just FWIW. Mitch If at first you don’t succeed, then sky diving is probably not for you. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Dave...Oregonian Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 2:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Temporary loss of speech John, Agree that it's not RAM. I suspect that since JAWS 17, when they came out with a new paradigm for how it works "under the hood", they began to use some memory space that is often crowded by other applications, or perhaps subjugated in the processing hierarchy. All I know is, that for any fairly heavy processing (painting an Internet Explorer screen, loading a PDF file, launching Outlook) JAWS often shuts down and comes back later announcing "Home Use Edition". Very irritating. I've turned off the auto restart capability of JAWS in every version since 17. If a program announces that it's not refreshing, then I'd rather know that than to just have JAWS shut down for 20 seconds or more. Dave Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 11:10 Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Temporary loss of speech This temporary loss of Jaws speech seems to be quite common when involving software which uses a lot of RAM. Here's another interesting observation. I have created shortcut keys for loading Jaws and other reading software. During that temporary silence, using the shortcut key for Jaws (CONTROL+ALT+J) doesn't work for restarting jaws. This is a bit out of my league but could it have something to do with not enough RAM in the system? If so, that would be a surprise to me. My new desktop at work has 18 gig of RAM. Yet, it still goes silent temporarily when loading certain on-line packages. JOHN AND LINDA JUSTICE WITH GUIDE DOGS EDWIN AND CALYPSOE PERSONAL E-MAIL: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Audiobookfan Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 1:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Temporary loss of speech I temporarily lose speech often when accessing an SD card in my built-in card reader. Here's what happens. When I insert my SD card into the card reader, most times I lose speech for about 20 seconds and each time I take some action the same thing happens. For example, I must wait about 20 seconds or so after inserting the card before I can arrow up and down to locate a folder. Once I get speech, I can arrow up and down fine, but as soon as I enter on a folder name to open the folder, I lose speech again for about 20 seconds. The same thing happens when I press the applications key to bring up the context menu. I must wait the 20 seconds or so before I can arrow through the menu. I'm running JAWS 2018 on Windows 10 version 1703, although this same problem occurred on JAWS 18 on this computer. This only happens with SD cards and not absolutely every time, but most times. Accessing the local SSD, external USB drives and network drives all behave as they should. I suspect this might be an issue with some setting in Windows 10, but I have no idea what setting or where to look for it. And perhaps it's something altogether different. I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks, Jeff 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/ 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/
