Hi, I have seen this behavior lately as well. Just in the last 2 days Jaws frequently does not seem to gain focus on the fields in the logon screen.
Last evening I even had to get my wife to use the mouse and click on the password field in order for Jaws to recognize the field. By the way, tabbing does nothing. My wife said the cursor was on the password field but typing characters did nothing either. This is very strange. It is now so bad that this morning I had to reboot my system to get so that I could log into my system. I sure hope this one can be fixed quickly. I wonder if perhaps it is due to some windows update or something. Thanks. Dan Beaver -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Debby Hill Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows 7 login glitch Hi Michelle, the part of the Win7 sign-on you can't change is the fact that you hear JAWS start up twice. Win7 has a modular design, so there is a module for starting up and a module for the rest of the operating system. I am probably not explaining this correctly, but it is how I understand it. Now for your log-on page problem. I am not sure what is going on, but 1. Have you tried tabbing around to see if you can get to the password field? 2. Maybe the screen isn't maximized, so you might give that a try, or 3. Have you tried alt-tab to see if you can focus on the log-on screen. With that in mind, what does JAWSKeY-t have to say. I have 2 windows 7 machines, and so far haven't had this problem, so this is all I can think of. Debby ----- Original Message ----- From: Michelle McQuigge <[email protected] To: [email protected] Date sent: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:27:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows 7 login glitch Ugh, not cool. So what to do when the dialog box doesn't come into focus? Just reboot the computer? On 8/22/12, tim <[email protected]> wrote: Nope, that is how it is. At 01:19 PM 8/22/2012, you wrote: Hi all, I've finally made the leap from Windows xp to Windows 7, and not a moment too soon. The transition has been fairly smooth apart from the whole virtual ribbon scene, but I have encountered one glitch I could use some guidance on. I have opted to have set a password for logging onto Windows. Jaws will announce itself ready for action after the windows music sounds, but won't always focus properly on the password field of the login screen. Sometimes it will simply say "logon dialog" without allowing me to type anything into it. Other times it will go straight there and all will work perfectly. What strikes me is odd is that Jaws will then announce itself as ready a second time once I have managed to log in successfully. Is there a setting I should know about to eliminate this issue? Also, just wanted to confirm my suspicion that jaws works infinitely better when the user account control is set to 0...is that right? Many thanks for your help, Michelle 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/
