Rebecca,

Thanks for this info. Seems to me a sort of bug. But nice to know a workaround.
|I have mine set to show all folders, so there is no problem here.

And mostly I am using Xplorer2, a windows explorer replacement.

Regards, Marten


On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:06:27 -0500 Rebecca Lineberger via Talk 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> In Window-Eyes, as we arrowed down through a list of folders or files, W-E
> would give the position of the selected item in the list:
> 
> 1 of 50, 15 of 50, 40 of 50, etc.
> 
> I also have my verbosity setting in Kurzweil set to give me this information
> as well, just because I was used to having it in W-E.
> 
> In JAWS, by pressing the insert-up arrow keys for "say current line," JAWS
> would give me a position.  The same with insert-tab.  But I found that the
> information was often incorrect. The insert-page down keys would always tell
> me correctly that there were 50 items.  
> 
> There is no "count" option listed in the quick settings menu when in File
> Explorer.
> 
> Presumably W-E and JAWS access information in different ways, so I went
> prowling around looking for a possible solution. IN Documents, I went to the
> file menu, folder options, then to the view tab.  In the tree view of
> settings, there is a checkbox for "show all folders".  Mine was not checked.
> When I checked this, JAWS gets the position right.  I'm using the Fall
> Creator, first 1703 and now 1709.  I can't say what is available in earlier
> versions of Windows.  
> 
>  
> 
> Perhaps most people will find the item position of no value, but some
> migrating from W-E might miss it.  Smile.
> 
> This is just my solution and perhaps there is another setting somewhere in
> JAWS that would take care of this.  I'm still learning, so if there is,
> please pass it along.
> 
> Just thought this might be of interest.
> 
> Rebecca    
> 
> Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to
> you.
> 
> Aldous Huxley
> 
>  
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