[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
What do you have your laptop set to do when you close the lid? Hibernate? Standby? Or no action? WEB TEXT READER Find news, sports, stock quotes, phone listings, encyclopedias, dictionaries, TV listings and more, fast and easily with Web Text Reader. For a 14 day free trial, go to: www.WebTextReader.Com http://www.webtextreader.com/ _ From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siobhan Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:44 AM To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] new laptop with a few quirks Hi all. For those who read this on the other jaws list, ignore please. I bought a del inspiron fifteen zero one laptop with two gigs of ram and an eighty gig hard drive. I don't know the display of my graphics card, sory meant name of it. Jaws if I close my lid, and ope it will not read the system tray or other list views like winamp's equalizer. Someone on another list told me to set the display to the classic theme, but if I do that, wpn't it screw with how the start menu works, and other things like that? Also when jaws does do this to me, I find that outlook express is effected and the mail fields aren't read like two edit bcc edit. Hope someone can make sense of this, and I'm sorry but right now have no spell check on this yet. Thanks, Siobhan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Hi. I have it set to do nothing, no background and no screen saver either. It also acts strange if I open a window on the Net and backspace it says blank. Leave it to me to get the how the heck did you do that? problem. Thanks for the help. - Original Message - From: Denny Huff To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:29 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks What do you have your laptop set to do when you close the lid? Hibernate? Standby? Or no action? WEB TEXT READER Find news, sports, stock quotes, phone listings, encyclopedias, dictionaries, TV listings and more, fast and easily with Web Text Reader. For a 14 day free trial, go to: www.WebTextReader.Com -- From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siobhan Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:44 AM To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] new laptop with a few quirks Hi all. For those who read this on the other jaws list, ignore please. I bought a del inspiron fifteen zero one laptop with two gigs of ram and an eighty gig hard drive. I don't know the display of my graphics card, sory meant name of it. Jaws if I close my lid, and ope it will not read the system tray or other list views like winamp's equalizer. Someone on another list told me to set the display to the classic theme, but if I do that, wpn't it screw with how the start menu works, and other things like that? Also when jaws does do this to me, I find that outlook express is effected and the mail fields aren't read like two edit bcc edit. Hope someone can make sense of this, and I'm sorry but right now have no spell check on this yet. Thanks, Siobhan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
It had started that when I got the pc, I think that's what it was set to so I had changed it to not hibernate. also just another question, I don't leave the laptop on, like I did with desktop i figured that wasn't ok for it. Am I right? Thanks for the hlp. - Original Message - From: Denny Huff To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:31 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks What happens if you set it to hibernate when you close the lid? WEB TEXT READER Find news, sports, stock quotes, phone listings, encyclopedias, dictionaries, TV listings and more, fast and easily with Web Text Reader. For a 14 day free trial, go to: www.WebTextReader.Com -- From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siobhan Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:58 AM To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks Hi. I have it set to do nothing, no background and no screen saver either. It also acts strange if I open a window on the Net and backspace it says blank. Leave it to me to get the how the heck did you do that? problem. Thanks for the help. - Original Message - From: Denny Huff To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:29 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks What do you have your laptop set to do when you close the lid? Hibernate? Standby? Or no action? WEB TEXT READER Find news, sports, stock quotes, phone listings, encyclopedias, dictionaries, TV listings and more, fast and easily with Web Text Reader. For a 14 day free trial, go to: www.WebTextReader.Com From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siobhan Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:44 AM To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] new laptop with a few quirks Hi all. For those who read this on the other jaws list, ignore please. I bought a del inspiron fifteen zero one laptop with two gigs of ram and an eighty gig hard drive. I don't know the display of my graphics card, sory meant name of it. Jaws if I close my lid, and ope it will not read the system tray or other list views like winamp's equalizer. Someone on another list told me to set the display to the classic theme, but if I do that, wpn't it screw with how the start menu works, and other things like that? Also when jaws does do this to me, I find that outlook express is effected and the mail fields aren't read like two edit bcc edit. Hope someone can make sense of this, and I'm sorry but right now have no spell check on this yet. Thanks, Siobhan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Hi Siobhan, Just some things I thought about reading your various messages to the list. What kind of screen to you have on it? Is it a TFT active matrix display, or an LCD? The reason I ask is that some laptop screen produce static, and so when you close the lid, it will occasionally interfere with the smooth running of the touch pad. The other thing I'm wondering is if you have a touch pad, or a track ball, or a touch stick to control your mouse? I find that a great number of my focus issues for Jaws on my laptops are due to the mouse being too sensitive, and so, when I run my hand over it, it picks up the heat of my fingers and voila, the window I was working with suddenly looses focus and I have to alt+tab over to the window I was working with. When I bought this new laptop, I thought it was so cool. It had a 15 inch wide screen display, a full size keyboard, with out the number pad, which is the way I wanted it, by the way, and hot buttons running up and down the sides of it that would give me full control of any DVD's I played on this puppy. Until I found out that the track point mouse, and touch pad, have a feature for sighted people that would become the bane of my existence. Basically, not only is it heat activated, the sides have scroll capabilities, and touch capabilities, as well. So, what does this mean to the average blind person? Try typing with fat hands on the home row, and not touching the touch pad, or any part of it. I guarantee you, that on a laptop, it can't be done. Grin. Anyway, it might be that your graphical user interfaces, like your mouse touch pad and the like, are getting in the way of your access technology. The other thing is that your laptop might have some perks designed for the sighted user that may be running in the background. These can also get in the way of certain focus issues. You might want to get a copy of your laptop's user's manual, read it through and see if there are things that are on by default, things that you may want to disable so that it isn't taking focus away from the virtual viewer. Another thing that I do, and this is because I've been around computers for a long time, I go through the control panel and see what's in there, and look through the items in there to see if there are some things that I don't recognize. Just to give you a quick example, this new laptop has a feature called Virtual sound, that comes on by default fresh out of the box. Essentially, what happens is when ever some type of media file is played, whether video or sound, the computers speakers suddenly double in size and you feel like you're in a high definition stereo sound system and theatre. Great if you're listening to music or movies all the time, but when the slightest sound, like a window opening or an error sound comes on, suddenly Jaws sounds like he's falling down a hole, or yelling from the other side of a concert hall. Suffice it to say, he sounds really stupid when ever this virtual sound feature is active, so I have to disable it when I'm not listening to any music, movies or what ever. Like I said, it's the little things and perks for the sighted user that suppose to impress them, but ends up getting in the way of the assistive technology that bothers us. Anyway, what ever the problem is, I hope you find it soon, and you can enjoy that sweet laptop. Victor --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Victor is right about all the fancy stuff for the sighted on laptops that get in the way for us blind folks. I have disabled the virtual sound as well as the touch pad. Sunny Day Maria Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] DON'T TELL GOD HOW BIG YOUR STORM IS, TELL YOUR STORM HOW BIG OUR GOD IS. Author Unknown - Original Message - From: Victor Gouveia To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:51 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks Hi Siobhan, Just some things I thought about reading your various messages to the list. What kind of screen to you have on it? Is it a TFT active matrix display, or an LCD? The reason I ask is that some laptop screen produce static, and so when you close the lid, it will occasionally interfere with the smooth running of the touch pad. The other thing I'm wondering is if you have a touch pad, or a track ball, or a touch stick to control your mouse? I find that a great number of my focus issues for Jaws on my laptops are due to the mouse being too sensitive, and so, when I run my hand over it, it picks up the heat of my fingers and voila, the window I was working with suddenly looses focus and I have to alt+tab over to the window I was working with. When I bought this new laptop, I thought it was so cool. It had a 15 inch wide screen display, a full size keyboard, with out the number pad, which is the way I wanted it, by the way, and hot buttons running up and down the sides of it that would give me full control of any DVD's I played on this puppy. Until I found out that the track point mouse, and touch pad, have a feature for sighted people that would become the bane of my existence. Basically, not only is it heat activated, the sides have scroll capabilities, and touch capabilities, as well. So, what does this mean to the average blind person? Try typing with fat hands on the home row, and not touching the touch pad, or any part of it. I guarantee you, that on a laptop, it can't be done. Grin. Anyway, it might be that your graphical user interfaces, like your mouse touch pad and the like, are getting in the way of your access technology. The other thing is that your laptop might have some perks designed for the sighted user that may be running in the background. These can also get in the way of certain focus issues. You might want to get a copy of your laptop's user's manual, read it through and see if there are things that are on by default, things that you may want to disable so that it isn't taking focus away from the virtual viewer. Another thing that I do, and this is because I've been around computers for a long time, I go through the control panel and see what's in there, and look through the items in there to see if there are some things that I don't recognize. Just to give you a quick example, this new laptop has a feature called Virtual sound, that comes on by default fresh out of the box. Essentially, what happens is when ever some type of media file is played, whether video or sound, the computers speakers suddenly double in size and you feel like you're in a high definition stereo sound system and theatre. Great if you're listening to music or movies all the time, but when the slightest sound, like a window opening or an error sound comes on, suddenly Jaws sounds like he's falling down a hole, or yelling from the other side of a concert hall. Suffice it to say, he sounds really stupid when ever this virtual sound feature is active, so I have to disable it when I'm not listening to any music, movies or what ever. Like I said, it's the little things and perks for the sighted user that suppose to impress them, but ends up getting in the way of the assistive technology that bothers us. Anyway, what ever the problem is, I hope you find it soon, and you can enjoy that sweet laptop. Victor --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Hi Victor, Maria and all. For now, I just deal with what i have, it's annoying but i'm not about to go and screw with things, hat's the main reason I bought this laptop, because I got cocky in the desktop's registry and killed something so powerful in jaws seven one, that not only could eight not work right, but seven one kept giving me a this package can't be opened verrify you have the right to open it or something of that nature. I do have a touch pad, it has two what look like volume buttons below it, I stay away from those. Other thenthat, it doesn't really mess with anything to bad. Also I will look up the usuer's guyde but anyone know how to find out what model I have? I'm not quite sure. Forgive the speling please, I need a spel check on here. Though I'd glad i went from chractrs for two days to none, when jaws types, which is what I want, I type to fast for jaws to know what i'm sayng smile. Thanks very much everyone, I just want to love this laptop for awhile, not totally kill it. Although I wil I bet, grin. Siobhan - Original Message - From: Victor Gouveia To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:51 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks Hi Siobhan, Just some things I thought about reading your various messages to the list. What kind of screen to you have on it? Is it a TFT active matrix display, or an LCD? The reason I ask is that some laptop screen produce static, and so when you close the lid, it will occasionally interfere with the smooth running of the touch pad. The other thing I'm wondering is if you have a touch pad, or a track ball, or a touch stick to control your mouse? I find that a great number of my focus issues for Jaws on my laptops are due to the mouse being too sensitive, and so, when I run my hand over it, it picks up the heat of my fingers and voila, the window I was working with suddenly looses focus and I have to alt+tab over to the window I was working with. When I bought this new laptop, I thought it was so cool. It had a 15 inch wide screen display, a full size keyboard, with out the number pad, which is the way I wanted it, by the way, and hot buttons running up and down the sides of it that would give me full control of any DVD's I played on this puppy. Until I found out that the track point mouse, and touch pad, have a feature for sighted people that would become the bane of my existence. Basically, not only is it heat activated, the sides have scroll capabilities, and touch capabilities, as well. So, what does this mean to the average blind person? Try typing with fat hands on the home row, and not touching the touch pad, or any part of it. I guarantee you, that on a laptop, it can't be done. Grin. Anyway, it might be that your graphical user interfaces, like your mouse touch pad and the like, are getting in the way of your access technology. The other thing is that your laptop might have some perks designed for the sighted user that may be running in the background. These can also get in the way of certain focus issues. You might want to get a copy of your laptop's user's manual, read it through and see if there are things that are on by default, things that you may want to disable so that it isn't taking focus away from the virtual viewer. Another thing that I do, and this is because I've been around computers for a long time, I go through the control panel and see what's in there, and look through the items in there to see if there are some things that I don't recognize. Just to give you a quick example, this new laptop has a feature called Virtual sound, that comes on by default fresh out of the box. Essentially, what happens is when ever some type of media file is played, whether video or sound, the computers speakers suddenly double in size and you feel like you're in a high definition stereo sound system and theatre. Great if you're listening to music or movies all the time, but when the slightest sound, like a window opening or an error sound comes on, suddenly Jaws sounds like he's falling down a hole, or yelling from the other side of a concert hall. Suffice it to say, he sounds really stupid when ever this virtual sound feature is active, so I have to disable it when I'm not listening to any music, movies or what ever. Like I said, it's the little things and perks for the sighted user that suppose to impress them, but ends up getting in the way of the assistive technology that bothers us. Anyway, what ever the problem is, I hope you find it soon, and you can enjoy that sweet laptop. Victor --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Hi Siobhan, On David's site: www.jaws-users.com David has a program called Belarc Advisor. This program, once installed, will give you everything you wanted to know about your computer, laptop or desktop, and more you didn't want to know. It's very easy to install, and once installed, it gives you all the information, right down to the model number, and serial number, assuming you have the original installation package that came with the machine. In other words, no re-formats or anything like that. Once you get the machine's model number, just zip off to the Dell website, and download the manual. My advice is to open the manual up in it's original form, which, if I know Dell, is in PDF format, then convert the file into html. This is best for long files of this type, as things may come up while you're reading the manual, so you'll have to come back to it. In that particular instance, you can just place a placemarker on the page, and come back to it later by pressing one key. Just something to consider. Victor --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Hi list: I know this has been asked and answered before however, I need to know now. What is the difference between stand by, hibernate and sleep mode? I have a laptop with all of these features and don't understand the purpose of them. Thanks! Reese --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[JAWS-Users] Re: new laptop with a few quirks
Do you have an external display connected to your computer? My laptop is connected to an external display that has a higher resolution then my laptop LCD display, and when I change to the external display I get symptoms like this unless the pixel settings are set the same on both the External and Internal displays. Jonathan From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siobhan Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:44 AM To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] new laptop with a few quirks Hi all. For those who read this on the other jaws list, ignore please. I bought a del inspiron fifteen zero one laptop with two gigs of ram and an eighty gig hard drive. I don't know the display of my graphics card, sory meant name of it. Jaws if I close my lid, and ope it will not read the system tray or other list views like winamp's equalizer. Someone on another list told me to set the display to the classic theme, but if I do that, wpn't it screw with how the start menu works, and other things like that? Also when jaws does do this to me, I find that outlook express is effected and the mail fields aren't read like two edit bcc edit. Hope someone can make sense of this, and I'm sorry but right now have no spell check on this yet. Thanks, Siobhan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
