I too am having the same problem that others have mentioned. I thought it
was just with my Dell laptop, but with all the postings, I'm sure that there
are other makes. I have been trouble free for the past two weeks. I went
into the mouse properties and played with some of the settings there. If you
press shift F1, you will get a brief help message that can give you some
clues as to whether this check box may help. This problem is so
frustrating. For a while, I went back to Word 2000, but it seems that I had
trouble working or reading tables with that version. David.
David Greene
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From: Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Jaws losing focus in word 2003
I may be having a similar problem come to think of it with word 2003 and
Jaws. If I type a word and/or line and then try to read it with insert-up
arrow. no go. If I arrow up or down, it just says blank. If I go up to the
top and start again, I can read it fine. It drives me nuts at work. I'm
using word 2000 at home, and I didn't have this problem when I began to
use
2003.
Sharon
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From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Annette Carr
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:23 AM
To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Jaws losing focus in word 2003
I had this problem occasionally in JAWS 6.x, but it got significantly
worse with JAWS 7 and 8. On my home laptop I think there is a correlation
between the location of the mouse pointer and JAWS loosing focus. So I
move
the mouse in a diagonal direction multiple time to move the pointer into
one
of the corners of the screens. Of course I have no idea if it really got
there, but I' give it my best shot. Then I refresh the screen. This
seems
to help.
Do you use braille or Large print. If so, maybe you can get a hardcopy
blank template of the form so that you can ensure you are catching all of
the fields. Or maybe you can make a list of the fields in the order which
they appear on the form so that again, you can keep track of what you are
filling in.
HTH,
Annette
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From: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jason smith
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:16 AM
To: jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws losing focus in word 2003
Hi everyone,
thanks to everyone who helped me with my log-in screen problem at work. I
got it worked out. Although, one time when trying to log in again, Jaws
seemed to not read the item I was on properly. Hopefully this wont happen
again. The problem I have now, is on a similar topic i.e Jaws losing
focus.
Atwork, we have several forms we have to access and fill information in on
each client. I find that I am having to constantly refresh the screen for
Jaws to correctly report which part of the form I am on. I have
experienced
this loss of focus issue on my desktop at home for several months now. At
work it seems even worse though. While I try to deal with this on forms
that
I know, it will be a major issue on those forms I am less familiar with. I
can't afford to be putting information into the wrong sections, or missing
parts altogether, because I am not aware of them because of Jaws. It is
one
thing for it to happen with my uni studies, where I have more time to go
back over work, but with my counselling and mediation work, it is not
acceptable as it slows my work progress down a lot. Both my home desktop
and
work desktop are running word 2003. I am also using Jaws 8.0 on both. My
work is running windows XP professional. While at home, I am using windows
XP home. Is anyone else having this same problem, or know what I can do?
Like I said, I refresh the screen, alt tab away and back again, use left
or
right arrows and even close and re-open word again, to keep getting Jaws
to
refocus. Sometimes I end up deleting work I need, Because Jaws is reading
it
to me wrong, or I end up typing things twice, because I don't think it is
there. It is getting very frustrating. I don't remember it being an issue
until about Jaws 7.0 and even then, not till a few months after using it.
Hope to hear from someone soon
thanks Jason
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