How do I set Jaws 16 to announce punctuation?  Thanks, Judith

I usually use F6 which gets me into the addressbar, then I press Control+A to highlight the entire address and Control+C to copy it to the clipboard. Once I’m in the email or other document where I want to paste it I do so with Control+V.

This works equally well in Firefox.

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

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Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:36 PM
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Subject: Copying and Pasting Web Addresses

 

Using JAWS 17, I used the command look-up feature to determine how to highlight, copy, and paste a Web Address from, for example, Internet Explorer into a document.

I found out that JawsKey + a will read the address or put the Jaws Cursor on the Web Address (though I found this did not actually work in practice), but I was pretty sure there was a way to copy the web address into the keyboard buffer and then paste it into a document with control + v.

Alas!  Perhaps I’m just imagining this useful feature is in Jaws

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Brilliant!  I knew there was a way.  THIS WORKS!

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: Copying and Pasting Web Addresses

 

I usually use F6 which gets me into the addressbar, then I press Control+A to highlight the entire address and Control+C to copy it to the clipboard. Once I’m in the email or other document where I want to paste it I do so with Control+V.

This works equally well in Firefox.

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Marquette, Ed
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:36 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Copying and Pasting Web Addresses

 

Using JAWS 17, I used the command look-up feature to determine how to highlight, copy, and paste a Web Address from, for example, Internet Explorer into a document.

I found out that JawsKey + a will read the address or put the Jaws Cursor on the Web Address (though I found this did not actually work in practice), but I was pretty sure there was a way to copy the web address into the keyboard buffer and then paste it into a document with control + v.

Alas!  Perhaps I’m just imagining this useful feature is in Jaws

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I usually use F6 which gets me into the addressbar, then I press Control+A to highlight the entire address and Control+C to copy it to the clipboard. Once I’m in the email or other document where I want to paste it I do so with Control+V.

This works equally well in Firefox.

Regards,

Sieghard

Using JAWS 17, I used the command look-up feature to determine how to highlight, copy, and paste a Web Address from, for example, Internet Explorer into a document.

I found out that JawsKey + a will read the address or put the Jaws Cursor on the Web Address (though I found this did not actually work in practice), but I was pretty sure there was a way to copy the web address into the keyboard buffer and then paste it into a document with control + v.

Alas!  Perhaps I’m just imagining this useful feature is in Jaws

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Using JAWS 17, I used the command look-up feature to determine how to highlight, copy, and paste a Web Address from, for example, Internet Explorer into a document.

I found out that JawsKey + a will read the address or put the Jaws Cursor on the Web Address (though I found this did not actually work in practice), but I was pretty sure there was a way to copy the web address into the keyboard buffer and then paste it into a document with control + v.

Alas!  Perhaps I’m just imagining this useful feature is in Jaws

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What is the keystroke for minimizing a document?  Just one of those things I forgot and need.  Judith

Hi,
The answer is a resounding yes, as Windows 10 Creators Update will
indeed let you use Narrator during first moments of Windows Setup.
Take a look at the following Win10 forum discussion:

I wonder if Microsoft Accessibility could help with this. Your SSD issue I think is definitely something for a real pro/technician who really knows what he or she is doing since it could be caused by so many things. Your battery life should be better with an SSD. Sorry, forgot if you mentioned this or not, but is this a Windows 7 or Windows 10 machine? How old is the laptop?

I bought an Acer laptop in 2012 and changed the 640 Gb hard drive that was in it for a 120 Gb SSD at the time and later upgraded it to a 240 Gb. Originally this was of course a Windows 7 machine, but I updated it to Windows 10 and under no configuration did I ever have major problems.

Now after that laptop was 5 years old I bought an Asus 15.6 inch Zenbook with 4K touch screen and while it was a rather expensive laptop, it is a beautiful machine. It came with a 512 Gb SSD, 16 Gb of DDR4 RAM  and the only thing I did was to upgrade the Windows 10 Home version it came with to a Windows 10 Professional and just because it was easy I actually paid for that. Depending on what I do I get an amazing 7 to almost 10 hours of battery life with this laptop and I am experiencing very few of the Jaws issues which have been mentioned here recently.

Regards,

Sieghard

I think I’ve finally gotten around to downloading whatever Win 7 updates there were. I also went to dell’s site and grabbed updated drivers. Generally, things with some services disabled are a bit better. Processor is still running high for whatever reason and there is still overall system sluggishness. Another odd thing I’m noticing is that with my old mechanical hard drive, battery life would run close to four hours on my extended capacity 9 cell battery, but now, I’m always under three hours with this SSD. Power settings are more or less the same. Screen brightness set to 5% dim right away on battery etc.

I’m still fighting with the stuttering audio though. This is probably the most frustrating part if anything.

I know others have also mentioned the stuttering/choppy audio problem with their machines so I’ll go ahead and post a couple of links to where some possible solutions have been illustrated. I’ve already gone through a few and while it has gotten better, the stuttering still pops up every now and then which can drive one crazy real quick. I did have this problem back on an XP Pro machine and recall downloading a registry fix for it and way back when, had a similar issue on this same Dell, but for the life of me, can’t remember what I did to finally get rid of it.

Anyway, if anyone’s got any ideas or if any of the solutions outlined in either of the links works for them, I’d like to hear it.

To be clear on the audio, this isn’t necessarily a jaws exclusive issue. I’m experiencing it with Eloquence, the new VE voices, NVDA, etc. There are even some YouTube videos of folks with similar problems and some solutions. Unfortunately though, I haven’t seem to come acrosss a YouTube fix yet.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19462013#vostro

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3513/t/19475969

I am late-in on this thread, but let me ask if you have run "resource monitor" to see *exactly which process* is causing your high CPU usage problem?  The answer to this will lead to the resolution.  Type "reso . . . " into your start button search box.

I think I’ve finally gotten around to downloading whatever Win 7 updates there were. I also went to dell’s site and grabbed updated drivers. Generally, things with some services disabled are a bit better. Processor is still running high for whatever reason and there is still overall system sluggishness. Another odd thing I’m noticing is that with my old mechanical hard drive, battery life would run close to four hours on my extended capacity 9 cell battery, but now, I’m always under three hours with this SSD. Power settings are more or less the same. Screen brightness set to 5% dim right away on battery etc.

I’m still fighting with the stuttering audio though. This is probably the most frustrating part if anything.

I know others have also mentioned the stuttering/choppy audio problem with their machines so I’ll go ahead and post a couple of links to where some possible solutions have been illustrated. I’ve already gone through a few and while it has gotten better, the stuttering still pops up every now and then which can drive one crazy real quick. I did have this problem back on an XP Pro machine and recall downloading a registry fix for it and way back when, had a similar issue on this same Dell, but for the life of me, can’t remember what I did to finally get rid of it.

Anyway, if anyone’s got any ideas or if any of the solutions outlined in either of the links works for them, I’d like to hear it.

To be clear on the audio, this isn’t necessarily a jaws exclusive issue. I’m experiencing it with Eloquence, the new VE voices, NVDA, etc. There are even some YouTube videos of folks with similar problems and some solutions. Unfortunately though, I haven’t seem to come acrosss a YouTube fix yet.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19462013#vostro

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3513/t/19475969

Hi again,

If bad sectors exist, replace the drive. Bad sectors on a hard drive grows like weeds.

Hi,

If all connections are correct according to specifications, then I would recommend downloading from the manufacturer of the Hard drive and run a health test or run a check disk and see if bad sectors exist. Bad sectors will slow down your access time on a hard drive.

Hello list,

So over the weekend, I swapped out my old hard drive with an SSD. I’m up and running and am coming across high CPU usage and can’t figure out why. It’s a clean install of Windows 7, 8 GB of ram and iCore 3 2.2 GHZ processor. The PC and Jaws feels sluggish at times too. The machine boots fast as would be expected, but launching of programs still takes a bit. At least more than what one would anticipate with an SSD. Standard programs like Office 2016, Malwarebytes/Essentials and Jaws 18. No files as of yet. The drive is more or less empty.

Jaws is stuttering too. The stuttering thing I had way back when and was able to fix it at that time, but for the life of me, can’t recall how I got rid of it.

Anyway, I’m going to check later for any firmware updates for the SSD (Crucial) in case that may help, but generally, I was curious if there was anything else I may have overlooked or can adjust to bring down the CPU usage. I’m talking anywhere from a consistent 78 to 98%.

Any input would be appreciated.

Hi,

I don’t know this for a fact, but I would expect that JAWS depends on the format of the system date in Windows itself to know that it is interpretting a date. You would need to have your Windows system date format in the ISO format that you describe.

Anyway, JAWS should interpret march 17^th as Saint patrick’s Day to honour us Irish. I’ll have to have a word with them before next year (smile)!!!

I know dates may be read out by Jaws in different formats, but I’m unaware of any way to get Jaws to say, March 17, 2017 when the date is formatted as 2017-03-17.  Of course, 3/17/2017 works just fine.

The YYYY-MM-DD ensures dates will sort correctly, even when treated as text fields, and we have some business procedures that call for the YYYY-MM-DD format.

I suppose one might write a script, but that hardly seems worth the effort.  I can do lots of converting in my head for the time it would take to write a script.

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I think I’ve finally gotten around to downloading whatever Win 7 updates there were. I also went to dell’s site and grabbed updated drivers. Generally, things with some services disabled are a bit better. Processor is still running high for whatever reason and there is still overall system sluggishness. Another odd thing I’m noticing is that with my old mechanical hard drive, battery life would run close to four hours on my extended capacity 9 cell battery, but now, I’m always under three hours with this SSD. Power settings are more or less the same. Screen brightness set to 5% dim right away on battery etc.

I’m still fighting with the stuttering audio though. This is probably the most frustrating part if anything.

I know others have also mentioned the stuttering/choppy audio problem with their machines so I’ll go ahead and post a couple of links to where some possible solutions have been illustrated. I’ve already gone through a few and while it has gotten better, the stuttering still pops up every now and then which can drive one crazy real quick. I did have this problem back on an XP Pro machine and recall downloading a registry fix for it and way back when, had a similar issue on this same Dell, but for the life of me, can’t remember what I did to finally get rid of it.

Anyway, if anyone’s got any ideas or if any of the solutions outlined in either of the links works for them, I’d like to hear it.

To be clear on the audio, this isn’t necessarily a jaws exclusive issue. I’m experiencing it with Eloquence, the new VE voices, NVDA, etc. There are even some YouTube videos of folks with similar problems and some solutions. Unfortunately though, I haven’t seem to come acrosss a YouTube fix yet.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19462013#vostro

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3513/t/19475969

Hi again,

If bad sectors exist, replace the drive. Bad sectors on a hard drive grows like weeds.

Hi,

If all connections are correct according to specifications, then I would recommend downloading from the manufacturer of the Hard drive and run a health test or run a check disk and see if bad sectors exist. Bad sectors will slow down your access time on a hard drive.

Hello list,

So over the weekend, I swapped out my old hard drive with an SSD. I’m up and running and am coming across high CPU usage and can’t figure out why. It’s a clean install of Windows 7, 8 GB of ram and iCore 3 2.2 GHZ processor. The PC and Jaws feels sluggish at times too. The machine boots fast as would be expected, but launching of programs still takes a bit. At least more than what one would anticipate with an SSD. Standard programs like Office 2016, Malwarebytes/Essentials and Jaws 18. No files as of yet. The drive is more or less empty.

Jaws is stuttering too. The stuttering thing I had way back when and was able to fix it at that time, but for the life of me, can’t recall how I got rid of it.

Anyway, I’m going to check later for any firmware updates for the SSD (Crucial) in case that may help, but generally, I was curious if there was anything else I may have overlooked or can adjust to bring down the CPU usage. I’m talking anywhere from a consistent 78 to 98%.

Any input would be appreciated.

I know dates may be read out by Jaws in different formats, but I’m unaware of any way to get Jaws to say, March 17, 2017 when the date is formatted as 2017-03-17.  Of course, 3/17/2017 works just fine.

The YYYY-MM-DD ensures dates will sort correctly, even when treated as text fields, and we have some business procedures that call for the YYYY-MM-DD format.

I suppose one might write a script, but that hardly seems worth the effort.  I can do lots of converting in my head for the time it would take to write a script.

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I think I’ve finally gotten around to downloading whatever Win 7 updates there were. I also went to dell’s site and grabbed updated drivers. Generally, things with some services disabled are a bit better. Processor is still running high for whatever reason and there is still overall system sluggishness. Another odd thing I’m noticing is that with my old mechanical hard drive, battery life would run close to four hours on my extended capacity 9 cell battery, but now, I’m always under three hours with this SSD. Power settings are more or less the same. Screen brightness set to 5% dim right away on battery etc.

I’m still fighting with the stuttering audio though. This is probably the most frustrating part if anything.

I know others have also mentioned the stuttering/choppy audio problem with their machines so I’ll go ahead and post a couple of links to where some possible solutions have been illustrated. I’ve already gone through a few and while it has gotten better, the stuttering still pops up every now and then which can drive one crazy real quick. I did have this problem back on an XP Pro machine and recall downloading a registry fix for it and way back when, had a similar issue on this same Dell, but for the life of me, can’t remember what I did to finally get rid of it.

Anyway, if anyone’s got any ideas or if any of the solutions outlined in either of the links works for them, I’d like to hear it.

To be clear on the audio, this isn’t necessarily a jaws exclusive issue. I’m experiencing it with Eloquence, the new VE voices, NVDA, etc. There are even some YouTube videos of folks with similar problems and some solutions. Unfortunately though, I haven’t seem to come acrosss a YouTube fix yet.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19462013#vostro

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3513/t/19475969