What version of jaws are we talking about here? Cheers Alex -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: 20 January 2014 23:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and Error Messages
I've had the same issues before on occasion and have had to either start a competitor's screen-reader or do the Jaws dump and re-start Jaws. I could close the dialog, but I'd like to see what the error might be. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Duck" <[email protected]> To: "Jaws List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 3:46 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and Error Messages > Hi Everyone, > > Sometimes, I will get an error message in whatever program that I am using > at the moment and JAWS will stop speaking until the error message is > cleared. For example, if I am using IE and I get the message "Internet > Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close", JAWS will fall > silent until I hit the "close" button to close Internet Explorer. It will > not read the error message. I either have to get someone sited to read > the > error message or I run another screen reader to see what is going on. > Now, > when JAWS stops speaking, I will hit the space bar so that, if this is the > problem, it will close the error message. I have also encountered this > with > Word and Outlook. I am running JAWS 15 but this happened with JAWS 14 > too. > This has occurred ever sense I have had this computer. I have not had > this > problem on other machines. This is the only PC that I have used that is > running Windows 8. I don't know if it is a Windows 8 thing or something > specific to this computer. Any thoughts? > > 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/
