Hi Tom The resurrection of Window-Eyes: hmm, sounds very biblical, or the title of a good book. (smile) Thanks for the software to reset the flag: very ingenious, and thoughtful to produce it for us.
Take care, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Kingston via Talk Sent: November 13, 2017 8:33 AM To: john schwery via Talk <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Kingston <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Program to reset (if necessary( the Windows screen reader flag. Thanks, John. Glad to help. Now if I could only write the resurrection of Window-Eyes. (smile) Tom On 11/13/2017 6:08 AM, john schwery via Talk wrote: > 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 it’s not actually hung or >> crashed, which is the case for me when Internet Explorer throws an >> error. In my case I’m running Window-Eyes. So I load NVDA to see >> what’s 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 I’m 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 it’s 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 >> “Send to†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 _______________________________________________ >> 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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