Here's what I do now when a screen reader dies.
Create another administrator account.
When the screen reader decides to go play golf somewhere without notice, hit
windows l, alt w, to switch user.
Right arrow to the second user and hit enter on it.
Press control shift escape to bring up task manager.
Kill the offending process, such as wineyes.exe or nvda.exe or whatever.
Reverse the steps to get back to the original account.
Restart the broken--and hopefully now fixed--screen reader and go about your
business.
These steps are taken on Windows Seven. I have no idea how to do that in
Windows Eight.
Another option is to make a small autohotkey script that launches taskkill
to close out the frozen processes. Compile it into a .exe and then you can
then put it in your startup folder and, when things die, you hit the
assigned hotkey and in theory your computer unlocks. By putting it in your
startup folder, you save the headache of navigating with your half broken
keyboard to where the script is located.
I have found that, when you think the keyboard is locked, you can actually
hit a few keys, especially function keys or those beginning with the super
key, *read: windows key.) So you could set your autohotkey script to trigger
on windows+f12 or windows+semicolon or something really obscure so you don't
trigger it by accident.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Thomas via Talk" <[email protected]>
To: "'Josh Rivera'" <[email protected]>; "'Window-Eyes Discussion
List'" <[email protected]>; "'Darrell Bowles'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 1:53 AM
Subject: RE: Is there a 9.2 on the horizon?
Hi: I too get some heavy lockups in Internet Explorer.
Very often on a page WE goes silent and there is no keyboard response.
If I hit the activate narrator key sometimes after a few minutes narrator
will start and I can alt tab to the desktop or sometimes to just a list of
2
objects, one for the Desktop and one for the WebPage I was on but hitting
enter on either of these does nothing.
Sometimes I got the Focus Switching message, sometimes that above
mentioned
list and sometimes something like Program Manager or just nothing in which
case, like Josh, I have to hit the button on the machine to ReBoot.
Many times though I can get WE back if I muck about in narrator if
keyboard
response does come back enough to close the page in question.
I, like Josh, run Windows 8.1 and the latest version of Internet Explorer
if
he is using Internet Explorer but the symptoms sound very similar to what
he
is trying to describe.
I have not had this happen in my Desktop Application yet but it happens
several times every day lately while trying to work in Internet Explorer
(using Yahoo Finance or Amazon and is indeed quite annoying.
For example, I may be reading a Financial Article to determine if I should
buy or sell a stock and in the middle of reading the article, or trying to
tab or arrow to something, have everything lockup and have no keyboard
access and have to leave that article to try and get speech back somehow
(if
lucky and I can get narrator fired up) - not good me thinks.
So this is a problem and even if it is related to Internet Explorer WE can
not allow the keyboard to get locked up.
With the keyboard locked up there is no way of trying to analyze anything
to
further identify the problem - just ReBoot if speech doesn't come back
after
several minutes I guess as the cleanist option and lose whatever you were
working on.
I hope that since the new Spartin browser will be simpler that WE will
work
much, much better with it - this is indeed one of my biggest headaches
with
the new WindowEyes to date.
I havent mentioned it since I have no good analysis other than the rather
general description above but it is happening here, in Windows 8.1, as it
is
happing to Josh on his Windows 8.1 machine so not isolated to his system.
Rick USA
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