Tom, thanks. Good work.
At 08:46 PM 11/12/2017, you wrote:
* About the Screen Reader Check program * This
program is copyright 2017 Tom Kingston all
rights reserved. Seee the included License.txt
file for details. Email:
[email protected] Windows has an internal
setting that tells it if a screen reader is
running. Our screen readers turn this on when we
load them and off when we close them. Windows
uses it to make some changes that help our
screen readers work better. It is also available
for other programs to check when they launch and
make themselves more accessible as well. The
problem comes into play when something goes
wrong with our screen reader, such as it stops
talking but itâs not actually hung or crashed,
which is the case for me when Internet Explorer
throws an error. In my case Iâm running
Window-Eyes. So I load NVDA to see whatâs
going on. Sometimes this alone reopens the flow
of speech from Window-Eyes. If not closing the
error message with NVDA always brings
Window-Eyes back to life. My understanding is
that the same thing happens with JAWS. Next I
unload NVDA and continue on my merry way. But
closing NVDA turns off the screen reader setting
in Windows even though Iâm still running a
screen reader. This is not the fault of NVDA or
exclusive to it. Any screen reader will do the
same. This is where this program comes into
play. In order to turn the screen reader setting
back on we would have to unload our screen
reader and reload it. And in order to do that
and insure the best result we would have to
close all open programs, close our screen
reader, reload it, and then reopen those
programs and do whatever is necessary, e.g. load
files, to get back to work. This is because our
screen readers need to see some programs load in
order to configure themselves to work correctly
with those programs. The Screen Reader Check
program allows you to reset the screen reader
setting without having to close and reopen your
programs and screen reader. You can run this
program and it will first check to see if the
screen reader setting is on or off. If itâs on
the program will simply notify you of this and
close when you press the Ok button. If not it
will attempt to turn the screen reader setting
back on and then broadcast a system message to
tell all open windows that a screen reader is
running. It will then notify you that this was
done and close when you press the Ok button. The
ScreenReaderCheck.zip file will extract a
ScreenReaderCheck folder. That folder includes
License.txt, ReadMe.txt (this file), and
SRC.exe. Simply unzip it into a folder of your
choice. You may then wish to place SRC.exe in a
more convenient place for quicker access. I gave
the program a short name to make it easy to run
from the run dialog. Just press Windows+R and
enter drive:\path\src.exe. for example, if you
place it in the root of your C-drive you would
just enter C:\SRC.exe. You may also wish to open
the context menu (Application key or Shift+F10)
on SRC.exe in the folder you extracted it to and
use âSend toâ to send a shortcut to your
desktop. Within the properties of that shortcut
file, accessed through the context menu or
Alt-Enter, you can assign a shortcut hot key to
it. If you have any comments or inquiries please
email me at [email protected] Below is a
link to the ScreenReaderCheck.zip file. After
downloading the file select it, open the context
menu, P Properties, tab to the Unblock check box
and check it. This will prevent you from having
to go through the Windows security dialog in
order to run SRC.exe.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ugpweuw5igmmg8q/ScreenReaderCheck.zip?dl=1
Hope it's helpful. Tom
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