I believe that your friend in these circumstances is the Jaws cursor. Remember that the Jaws cursor is actually the mouse cursor. In the circumstance when the virtual cursor is not reading in the way you mention I switch to the Jaws cursor by pressing the Jaws cursor button. This is num pad +.
The Jaws cursor will read what is under the mouse as you move across the screen using the cursor keys. This will enable you to track where you are, for example , the desktop. When you want to click on any area you press the * button on the mum pad. This will resume focus in the way you describe. I have used this method to resolve problems of the kind you mention. I think these are issues of cursor focus. Helpfully for us the Jaws Cursor will continue to read when the virtual jaws cursor has given up the ghost. I do not know the technical reason why this should be the case but it has saved me many a reboot. Regards David Griffith . -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Robinson Sent: Monday, 16 June 2008 01:49 To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] What do the rest of you do? I can see a little and do occasionally use the mouse especially when all else fails. Sometimes jaws gets into a condition where pressing the arrow keys produces the error gong. No amount of tabbing, control tabbing, or alt tabbing will get out of this condition. The only means of escape seems to be moving the mouse to an empty part of the desk top and clicking. After that I am able to use the arrow keys to move from icon to icon as intended. Also in MS word, sometimes the blinking cursor just disappears. If I type on the keyboard jaws echoes the letters normally and it seems that all is well but absolutely nothing is being typed in the document. Once again the only escape I have found is to click with the mouse somewhere in the document. The blinking cursor goes to that location. I once asked a totally blind friend and the only solution this individual found was to close word and restart it. I find it hard to believe that jaws has no way out for the totally blind. What am I missing. Just curious. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.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 Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.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]
