Hi, Tom. JAWS should not say Speech Off. It should say Speech Mute. If you press INSERT plus SPACE, S again, it should say Full Speech.

Try the following.

1. Open JAWS Settings Center.

2. In the search box, type the word speech.

3. Arrow down to Speech options, and press ENTER.

4. Open Speech Options with Right Arrow.

5. Arrow down to Less Speech Options

6. When you Arrow down to Less Speech Options, if it says Speech Mute, press Space once.

7. It will say Speech On Demand.

8. TAB to the OK box and press ENTER.

Now, when you press JAWS key plus SPACE, S, it should toggle between Full Speech and Speech On Demand.

Thanks to all those who offered suggestions regarding my speech on demand problem under Jaws .78.

In an attempt to fix the problem, the following steps have been done:

The Jaws repair function was run a couple of times including after downloading a new .exe file.

Unfortunately, although everything else in this version of Jaws seems to be working well, there has not been any improvement.

Pressing insert, spacebar then s gives just 2 options, speech on or speech off.

Pressing insert, spacebar shift s no longer seems to give any feedback at all.

There are some options under Settings Centre, Speech Options that seem to deal with the Speech on Demand feature but, being a recent convert to Jaws from WE,I don’t know what to change or leave alone.  So, I may just have to leave it all as is for a while.

Tom

At home, I am running Win 10  1709; home edition; Jaws 2018 Pro; and, when I try to install 2018  .78, I get an error message and Jaws suggest I run a repair on Jaws and try again.  I am running a Dell 15-5559 laptop.  I cannot find repair on my computer.  Where is it?

I am not sure if that is all the information I should include, please forgive me if not.

Have a great day!

Bob Hicks

Hi, Bob. Repair is an option when running the installer for the latest JAWS update. Just choose it from the options when you run the installer.

At home, I am running Win 10  1709; home edition; Jaws 2018 Pro; and, when I try to install 2018  .78, I get an error message and Jaws suggest I run a repair on Jaws and try again.  I am running a Dell 15-5559 laptop.  I cannot find repair on my computer.  Where is it?

I am not sure if that is all the information I should include, please forgive me if not.

Have a great day!

Bob Hicks

Eset definitely slowed my wife's computer down.

On the other hand there is no good reason to pay for anti virus software since Microsoft comes with very good free anti virus protections in the form of Windows Defender. I assume the person from the Disability Help Desk would have checked this, but make sure you don't have both Microsoft Defender and Eset NOD32 running since this could definitely cause problems.



-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill White
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 10:17 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: computer slow just after logging in

I doubt that NOD32 would be slowing down your computer significantly. I use the same product, and it isn't affecting my speed after logon.

Bill White
billwhite92701@...

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Val Paul
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 9:05 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: computer slow just after logging in

Hi Everyone!

Don't know if you remember, I was on about my computer being very slow after logging into windows startup? I contacted the microsoft disability desk yesterday, and got a very helpful lady who gave my pc a right going over!

She thinks it could be my Eset Nov32 antivirus that could be slowing things down, could this be the case?

She did clean my computer up a good bit, and removed things which she said i didn't really need.


Val.

I use Anyburn.  It is free and you can put your files into the list very easily.  Simply go to the file you want and copy it to your clipboard and then paste it in the list box in the program. I have not had a failure yet.  This program is very versatile, for ripping, burning, creating startup disks, making disk images and more.  The format is easily navigated.

Carol


On 2/25/2018 7:54 PM, Val Paul wrote:

Hi everyone!

Can you burn off cd's with jaws, or do you have to install a cd burner


Val.

Thanks to all those who offered suggestions regarding my speech on demand problem under Jaws .78.

In an attempt to fix the problem, the following steps have been done:

The Jaws repair function was run a couple of times including after downloading a new .exe file.

Unfortunately, although everything else in this version of Jaws seems to be working well, there has not been any improvement.

Pressing insert, spacebar then s gives just 2 options, speech on or speech off.

Pressing insert, spacebar shift s no longer seems to give any feedback at all.

There are some options under Settings Centre, Speech Options that seem to deal with the Speech on Demand feature but, being a recent convert to Jaws from WE,I don’t know what to change or leave alone.  So, I may just have to leave it all as is for a while.

Tom

Thanks to all those who offered suggestions regarding my speech on demand problem under Jaws .78.

In an attempt to fix the problem, the following steps have been done:

The Jaws repair function was run a couple of times including after downloading a new .exe file.

Unfortunately, although everything else in this version of Jaws seems to be working well, there has not been any improvement.

Pressing insert, spacebar then s gives just 2 options, speech on or speech off.

Pressing insert, spacebar shift s no longer seems to give any feedback at all.

There are some options under Settings Centre, Speech Options that seem to deal with the Speech on Demand feature but, being a recent convert to Jaws from WE,I don’t know what to change or leave alone.  So, I may just have to leave it all as is for a while.

Tom

Hi Bob,

At home, I am running Win 10  1709; home edition; Jaws 2018 Pro; and, when I try to install 2018  .78, I get an error message and Jaws suggest I run a repair on Jaws and try again.  I am running a Dell 15-5559 laptop.  I cannot find repair on my computer.  Where is it?

I am not sure if that is all the information I should include, please forgive me if not.

Have a great day!

Bob Hicks

Hi Bill Nino Hear.

How do you mute Jaws so it wont get into total recorders files?

The way you do it sounds a lot easier than uninstalling software and then reinstalling like total recorder wanted to do.

Have a good day.

I use an application which captures audio from the Internet. I can use either Speech On Demand or Speech Mute, and won’t get JAWS in the captured audio. So there are other uses for these two options than with a braille display.

I don’t have a braille display, either, but I can turn this on and off although from what I can tell it makes little sense for a speech only user.

Thanks for your reply Sieghard.

Yes, I do definitely have the Jaws version  of a few days ago loaded. i.e. 2018.1802.78.

There is no braille device connected  so am wondering if this is making the difference. I wished to explore the feature to see how it worked but maybe this is not possible with no braille device connected.

I’ll study your remarks below to see what I can learn.

Thanks

Tom

Speech on demand only makes sense if you use a braille display (at least as far as I am concerned).

Yes, Jaws Key+Spacebar followed by S toggles between speech on demand and full speech.

If you want the old behaviour back where this keystroke toggles between Speech and Mute you have to first toggle from full speech to speech on demand.

Now press Jaws Key+Spacebar followed by Shift+S and Jaws will say “Speech offset to Speech Mute”.

If you now press Jaws Key+Spacebar followed by S it will toggle between full speech and mute.

In order to go back to Speech on Demand you have to Mute Speech, then again press Jaws Key+Spacebar followed by Shift+S.

Jaws will say “Speech offset to speech on demand”.

If you try the Jaws Key+Spacebar with Shift+S when you are in full speech mode Jaws will say “not available in full speech mode”.

Regards,

Sieghard

Hi,

Using W10 latest Home 64 bit and Jaws 2018.1802.78

After downloading and installing Jaws  a couple of days ago without a problem, I have now encounted one.

Well, maybe I am doing something incorrectly.

Trying out the new feature, Speech on Demand by pressing Jaws, spacebar s  gives a very different result from that as demonstrated in the December FS Podcast. When Jonathan used the above key combination his system said either “Speech on Demand” or “Full Speech”. My system says “Speech on” or “Speech off” and that is all.

With the speech off none of the reading keys like insert up arrow says anything.

As this feature was not tried prior to the recent update, it is not known whether it has ever worked.

Could someone try this featureand see what results are   obtained?

Thanks

Tom

Malwarebytes offers more threat protection than either MSE or WD, which don't cover you from ransomware and crypto schemes. Oh yes, that's another one you should definitely look into--CryptoProtect, also free.

I just go with Windows Defender, receive regular reports that my machine has just been scanned twice, and all is good.  

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of HH. Smith Jr.
Sent: February 23, 2018 6:10 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: accessible anti-malware?

 

Hello fellow listerrs,

I know we’ve dealt with this subject in the past, but can someone tell me a fairly decent anti-malware software. 

Thx,

 

Hi:

Do you know how to initiate  a contact

I am using Skype with my tutor and I don’t know how to call her.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks

It might work some, but it is not as accessible as previously.  I like the split window aspect of the old Skype, and I don't know how to quit without signing out, which I found out how to do accidentally by going into my profile.

Maria Campbell

lucky1inct@...

"Preach the Gospel, and when necessary use words!"

--St. Francis

Hi,

The Windows 10 Skype app is very accessible.

When you enter on the app, you are right on your list of contacts. Enter on one, and you are put right into the message field to type a message. You just tab to call, video call, and so on. You can press CTRL+1 to get to your list of contacts wherever you are on the screen.

David Moore

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: Maria Campbell
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 2:57 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: The latest skype

 

Don't update if possible.

 

Maria Campbell

lucky1inct@...

"Preach the Gospel, and when necessary use words!"

--St. Francis

On 2/24/2018 1:32 PM, Juanita wrote:

I’m using Windows 10 and the latest jaws update. Is the latest version of Skype accessible from the keyboard? Luckily it didn’t update, just loaded a trial version. I couldn’t find any accessibility settings or menus. The control-comma didn’t bring up options, but something about my not having a camera.

 

Juanita