I also would like to learn how to do this with Window Eyes. Thanks,
Chris Sent from my iPhone > On 15 May 2015, at 2:40 am, Corey Knapp via Talk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Rob, > Could > you please give me some info about creating the auto hotkey program thanks > so much. > Corey > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob via Talk > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 4:11 AM > To: Rick Thomas; Window-Eyes Discussion List > Subject: Re: Is there a 9.2 on the horizon? > > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/captinlogic%40 > gmail.com. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/coreytk%40gmai > l.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/blindcat7%40gmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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