Yes, this happens to me often when there are a lot of applications open. Mostly when Excel 2010 is one of the applications. Since entering Tab characters into each application is not desirable, I give up and use another method. I use the Insert + F10 key combination to bring up the JAWS list of running applications dialog.
*Don Marang* Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org <http://www.vinuxproject.org/> On 7/10/2012 12:27 PM, Norman King wrote: > Hi. > Actually that's my problem. > When I do that it would go from outlook to ie and if I continue holding the > alt and pressing tab it seems to ignor the alt key. > Focus just moves as if I was pressing just the tab key. > Any suggestions????? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Virgil Cook > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Alt Tab in Windows 7 > > Try holding the alt key down and repeatedly pressing tab. That works for > me. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Duck > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:20 AM > To: Jaws List > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Alt Tab in Windows 7 > > Hi Everyone, > > I posted about this a while back but I didn't get any response. I thought > that I would try again and see if I can explain myself a bit better. Sense > I have started using Windows 7, I have been having a problem with using alt > tab to switch between programs. For example, lets say that I have open > JAWS, Excel, Word, Outlook, and Internet Explorer. I am in Excel and I need > to look up something on the net so I alt tab over to Internet Explorer. > Now, I try to alt tab back to Excel but I cannot. Alt tab will only go > between IE and JAWS. So, I use insert F10 to bring up the JAWS window list > and select Excel from there. Now that I have done that, I can again alt tab > between all of the open programs. Is there a setting that I can change to > make it so that all of the open programs are always in the alt tab rotation? > I don't know for sure that Windows 7 is what is causing the problem but I > have used all flavors of Windows back to Windows 3.1 and I have not had this > problem before. I upgraded to JAWS 13 at the same time that I upgraded to > Windows 7 so I suppose that JAWS could be the problem. I would appreciate > any suggestions. > > Thanks, > > Scott Duck > > 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/
