Hi Riana, This is a shot in the dark but,I had a different problem of Jaws constantly repeating any character that was highlighted. Try the following to see if it helps. It will only take a minute or so. The below steps are for XP so, you'll have to figure out how to apply them to Windows7. 1. Open the control panel and press enter to open Accessibility Options. 2. Control + Tab to the display page. 3. Tab to Cursor Options Blink Rate left right slider, this should be at 63%. 4. Tab to Cursor Options Width left right slider, this should be at 0%.
Hope this helps. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Van Der Walt Riana To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to decrease time for JAWS to respond My delay only occurs with jaws, not via Kurzweil. Riana -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to decrease time for JAWS to respond Do you have this key echo delay with other screen readers like NVDA and System Access to Go? It might be worth trying one or both of these two free screen readers to see whether you experience the same key echo delay problem with them as you do with JAWS. This way, you can determine whether the key echo delay is a JAWS problem only, or a more general hardware problem. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victoria Vaughan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to decrease time for JAWS to respond > Thank you for your instructions! They sound very useful for speeding up my > computer. However, what I am particularly referring to, is the time delay > between pressing a letter key and hearing JAWS echo it. Sometimes, JAWS > seems to not even know that I have pressed a key. > > I've cleaned my keyboard, with the compressed air and got a lot of dog > hair out of it. May be it's just wearing out? > > I had thought that this was just a Jaws problem, but now, I'm not so sure. > > Many thanks for any thoughts on this matter! Vicky > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Trouble" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 10:39 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to decrease time for JAWS to respond > > >> Do a scanDisk on both. >> Just go to desk top, myComputer, hit enter. Now on the local drive hit >> application key and chose properties... >> Then do a control + tab and hit enter. Tab to fix drive and check. Then >> ok your way out. >> When you reboot it will do that job. >> after that is done. Run defrag on the system, and disk clean up. You can >> find that in accessories, system tools, disk clean up. >> If you have a registry cleaner run it also. >> Now your all clean. >> Do a insert + f11, and see just what all is running. >> For some you may have to go into control panel, task bar and startup >> menu. Just un check hide icons and they will show all. >> Stop all that don't need to run and then shut computer off and once off >> restart it. >> That will purge the memory and come up clean. Where a reboot will still >> keep junk around. >> At 03:33 PM 7/7/2011, you wrote: >>>Hi folks, I'm using Jaws 11 on a laptop and desktop both using Windows >>>XP. On both of them, I can wait several seconds after I have pressed a >>>key, before Jaws either echoes it or responds to it. >>> >>>Do any of you have any ideas as to how I can decrease the wait? >>> >>>Many thanks for any suggestions! Vicky >>>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/ >> >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 7.0.0.21, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17890) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= > > > 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/
