Sometimes when this happens to me I do a window's key + M then alt tab to first window I want and then alt tab to next to go back and forth. Having IE open seems to trigger this for me especially if using Excel too
Al -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Scott Duck Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:47 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Alt Tab Kimsan, I could do that but, if I am going to go to the trouble to use the extra key strokes, I may as well use the JAWS window list. That is fine sometimes but, To me, it is much better to just use alt tab, if you are just jumping between two or three windows and doing so very frequently. If I am switching windows five or six times a minute, using the task tray or JAWS window list to switch gets a bit cumbersome. Thanks, Scott Duck -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kimsan Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:18 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Alt Tab Um...? I don't have a solution but Have you tried windows key t, to jump to the taskbar and navigate to the open program that way? Kimsan Song kimsans...@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Scott Duck Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:56 AM To: Jaws List Subject: [JAWS-Users] Alt Tab Hi, I have posted about this a couple times before and didn't get much feedback but I'm going to try again because it's about to drive me crazy. Previously, up through Windows Vista, I could alt tab between all of the programs that I had open. With Windows 7 and now with Windows 8, often I cannot alt tab between all of them. I'll give you an example. I was just paying a bill online. I had open Internet Explorer, Notepad (where my payment info was), and JAWS. I was in IE and wanted to alt tab to Notepad. However, when I pressed alt tab, it went from IE to JAWS and would go no farther when I held alt and continued to press tab. If I released alt and then pressed alt tab again, it would go back to IE and would go no farther. So, only IE and JAWS were in the alt tab order even though Notepad was also open. To get to Notepad, I had to use the JAWS window list, which I don't find as convenient as alt tab. Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone have any idea how to fix it? As I said, this started with Windows 7 but I am now using Windows 8, on a different machine, and am getting the same behavior. I upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 at the same time that I upgraded from JAWS 9 to JAWS 13 (I'm now using JAWS 14). I don't know if this is a Windows issue or a JAWS issue or something else. This is a small thing but it really bugs me so if anyone has any ideas, please speak up. 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/
