Hi all. I'm using current JAWS v16. My question regards the ability to temporarily change the speech rate with CONTROL + ALT + PageUp or PageDown.
I expected this setting to stick with the application while it was running. In other words, if I set a slow rate in Outlook, but a fast rate in Internet Explorer, then I should be able to switch between those two programs with ALT + TAB and have either slow or fast speech depending on which program has focus. If I exit the program and restart it, then I'd expect the speech rate to be restored to the default. But while the program is running, I'd expect the temporary speech rate setting to stay in effect, even after I switch back to the program from somewhere else. What I see instead: Switching away from a program then back to it with ALT + TAB seems to cause JAWS to forget about the temporary speech rate setting for that program. Text from the program is then read at the default speech rate rather than my temporary setting. Note that I'm not exiting the program. It's still running, I'm just changing focus with ALT+TAB away, then back to the running program again. But JAWS seems to have forgotten the temporary speech rate that I had set for that program. If I'm not mistaken, it has been sticky for the program up until some relatively recent JAWS update, and now I'm getting this new behavior where JAWS forgets about the speech rate setting after switching away and back. Has it always worked this way, and I'm somehow mistaken? Or is this a bug? -Paul _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
