On Aug 24, 2019, at 9:21 PM, Andrew Diederick <andrew.diederick@gmail.com>

Hello all.
Looking to purchase a new dell laptop computer. Here are the specs:
I9 processor
16 GB ram
256 GB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

I would like this computer to last me about six years. Are all of these

Appreciate any advise.

Thank you-
Andrew

On Aug 24, 2019, at 9:21 PM, Andrew Diederick <andrew.diederick@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all.
Looking to purchase a new dell laptop computer. Here are the specs:
I9 processor
16 GB ram
256 GB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

I would like this computer to last me about six years. Are all of these specs acceptable for running JFW? Is there anything else that I should make certain a new laptop has for JFW use?
Appreciate any advise.

Thank you-
Andrew

so i have no idea how to interact with this. I can't believe someone
would design a web page like this. When i hit the enter button on the
edit box, it makes like a beep sound like it's going into forms mode.
Then when i hit alt and down arrow, it sounds like it's coming out off
forms mode.
I arrow down to Rhode Island, depress the enter key, and it keeps
telling me something about edge, like it's launching the edge web
browser. Now i'm really confused. Any help guys?

On 8/24/19, Jed Barton <jed@jedbarton.com> wrote:

ok, what is waterfox? I'm using firefox

On 8/24/19, dennis <dennisc67@gmail.com> wrote:

after it says state there is a blank line. press enter to activate forms
mode. press alt plus down arrow like you would open a dialog box. then
just
down and up arrow till you find your state and press enter. i'm using
latest
jaws and waterfox. hope this helps.

On 8/24/2019 4:29 PM, Jed Barton wrote:

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state. It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state. I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

--
Dennis Cornelison

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Virus-free. www.avast.com

Jed,

No snark whatsoever is intended with what follows.

Try a different web browser (pick any Chromium based one), screen reader, or
both.

What I get when I hit the state box is a bit odd, but if you begin typing
out the whole state name the correct one appears as soon as you've given
enough characters to make it distinct.  For example, typing V shows
Virginia, Vermont, and Virgin Islands.  Add the letter I and Vermont
disappears, add the "rgini" and you only have Virginia as the choice.  When
I hit Enter it fills in Virginia and says something like "Virginia link" or
similar.   This thing is not a conventional combo box.  It is a new thing
that I have never encountered before, and I actually like it far better than
a conventional combo box.  I cannot figure out why the list of options is
not being read as one arrows down through them, but either this new object
is not exposing the text to the screen reader or screen readers have not yet
been updated to deal with this new web object.  I was using NVDA and Brave
(which is Chromium-based) for my quick test.

If you need to fill in Rhode Island then all you need to do is type the
letter R and hit Enter.  The screen reader should tell you that Rhode Island
now appears in the state box.

Over time I have certainly learned that different browsers and different
screen readers may "play better" with specific web pages.  When push comes
to shove I change one variable at a time, typically changing the browser
first, and the screen reader second.

--

Brian *-* Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1903, Build 18362

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

~ Eric Hoffer

so when i am going through this form, after the zipcode, there is an
edit box, after that, it says  black down pointing small triangle.
What the hell is that supposed to mean.  so i depress the enter key.
Then as i am arrowing through the states, they just look like words.
So i get to rhode island and depress the enter key.  Then it says
starting microsoft edge.
Why would it launch edge, i'm not even running edge, i'm running
firefox.  What am i missing here guys.  I have to get this form filled
out this weekend.

Cheers,

Jed

On 8/24/19, Jed Barton <jed@...> wrote:

so i have no idea how to interact with this.  I can't believe someone
would design a web page like this.  When i hit the enter button on the
edit box, it makes like a beep sound like it's going into forms mode.
Then when i hit alt and down arrow, it sounds like it's coming out off
forms mode.
I arrow down to Rhode Island, depress the enter key, and it keeps
telling me something about edge, like it's launching the edge web
browser.  Now i'm really confused.  Any help guys?

On 8/24/19, Jed Barton <jed@...> wrote:

ok, what is waterfox?  I'm using firefox

On 8/24/19, dennis <dennisc67@...> wrote:

after it says state there is a blank line. press enter to activate forms
mode. press alt plus down arrow like you would open a dialog box. then
just
down and up arrow till you find your state and press enter. i'm using
latest
jaws and waterfox. hope this helps.

On 8/24/2019 4:29 PM, Jed Barton wrote:

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state.  It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state.  I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

--
Dennis Cornelison

[image]
Virus-free. www.avast.com

so i have no idea how to interact with this. I can't believe someone
would design a web page like this. When i hit the enter button on the
edit box, it makes like a beep sound like it's going into forms mode.
Then when i hit alt and down arrow, it sounds like it's coming out off
forms mode.
I arrow down to Rhode Island, depress the enter key, and it keeps
telling me something about edge, like it's launching the edge web
browser. Now i'm really confused. Any help guys?

On 8/24/19, Jed Barton <jed@jedbarton.com> wrote:

ok, what is waterfox? I'm using firefox

On 8/24/19, dennis <dennisc67@gmail.com> wrote:

after it says state there is a blank line. press enter to activate forms
mode. press alt plus down arrow like you would open a dialog box. then
just
down and up arrow till you find your state and press enter. i'm using
latest
jaws and waterfox. hope this helps.

On 8/24/2019 4:29 PM, Jed Barton wrote:

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state. It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state. I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

--
Dennis Cornelison

[image]
Virus-free. www.avast.com

ok, what is waterfox? I'm using firefox

On 8/24/19, dennis <dennisc67@gmail.com> wrote:

after it says state there is a blank line. press enter to activate forms
mode. press alt plus down arrow like you would open a dialog box. then
just
down and up arrow till you find your state and press enter. i'm using
latest
jaws and waterfox. hope this helps.

On 8/24/2019 4:29 PM, Jed Barton wrote:

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state. It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state. I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

--
Dennis Cornelison

[image]
Virus-free. www.avast.com

after it says state there is a blank line. press enter to activate forms
mode. press alt plus down arrow like you would open a dialog box. then just
down and up arrow till you find your state and press enter. i'm using latest
jaws and waterfox. hope this helps.

On 8/24/2019 4:29 PM, Jed Barton wrote:

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state. It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state. I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

--
Dennis Cornelison

[image]
Virus-free. www.avast.com

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state.  It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state.  I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Jed Barton <jed@jedbarton.com> wrote:

Hey guys
So i am trying to apply for a position, but am running into an issue
with their web page.
So i can fill out most of the form, until i get to the state. It
comes up as an edit box, but it also looks like it's a dropdown to
select a state. I don't understand why people don't use combo boxes
the way they are supposed to.
Can someone look at it, to figure out how i am supposed to enter the
state, cause i can't submit the form.

https://www.embracehomeloans.com/recruiting/lets-talk

You might also want to check the drive periodically with smartmontools
and if the reallocated sectors are anything but 0, get a new drive.

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:51:48 -0400,
Dave Durber wrote:

Hello Chris:

I just checked the hard drives serial number, on the Western
Digital web site, and discovered, that the drive is over five
years old, it has served me well. So, off to hard drive heaven it
goes.

I have decided to order a 3 TB hard drive, which is the same size
as the external drive which has the data recovered from the
defective drive. When it comes, I will use Image for Windows to
copy the partitions stored on the external hard drive to the new
internal hard drive, which will save time in initializing,
partitioning, formatting and then copying the data.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hill"
<hillco@earthlink.net>
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Disk repair utility, usable with JAWS

Hello. Sounds like you did the right things, except for one. If
a drive gives you errors, and you manage to fix it using the
process you used, you may not want to trust it again. Hard
drives are cheap, and data is hard to replace. I had a drive in
a laptop that failed in a similar manner to yours. I was able
to write zeros to it and get it going again. Six months later
the whole disaster began again with another bad sector in a bad
spot making it unreliable. I finally put in a new drive and
restored the backup. That was the true fix to the problem.


Good luck.


CH



On 8/24/2019 09:35, Dave Durber wrote:

Hello John

Thank you for your suggestions. In addition, I would also like
to thank others on this list for their suggestions.

It has beena week or 2 since I posed my original question.

Later that day, a friend came round and after I told him my
problem, he said that he had the Ontrac data recovery software
on his system. I took the drive out of the particular computer
and, along with that hard drive, an additional USB hard drive
and a USB 2.5/3.5 inch docking station we went to his house.

Please note: the latest version of the Ontrac Data Recovery
software, is not accessible to any screen reading software. I
tried it before my friend came to my house.

Once he had run the Ontrac software and performed a scan on
the troublesome hard drive, to my enormous relief and enormous
good luck, he was able to recover all the data on the drive
and copy it to the spare hard drive. The software, did report
some problems with some sectors on the drive, fortunately,
there was no data in those sectors.

When I got home, I reinstalled the hard drive in the
computer. As the hard drive is a Western Digital hard drive, I
downloaded and installed their Data Lifeguard software.

As I had all the data from the drive stored on another
drive. I decided to choose the option to write zeros to the
entire drive, in effect, returning the drive to the state it
was in when I purchased it. The function completed
successfully, with no errors.

Once that was done, I used the windows Disk Management
utility, to initialize, partition and format the drive.

I then used CHKDSK, with the /f switch, to check the drive. It
came back with no errors.

I restarted the computer and used CHKDSK, with the /F switch
again, and again, the program came back with no errors.

I restored the data from the backup drive to the original
drive. So, everything is back to normal.

I will check the drive regularly to check reliability.

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Disk repair utility, usable with JAWS

I would get smartmontools and see what it says about your drive.
Also, a great utility for disk repair is spinwrite at www.grc.com.

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 06:00:21 -0400,
Dave Durber wrote:

Hello Everyone:

I have a system running Windows 7 Professional 64 BIT, which I
intend upgrading to Windows 10 when I get a new Motherboard for
it. I have JAWS 2018 installed on it. In addition to the CD-DVD
ROM, it has a 120 GB SSD, which is the system drive, and 2 1 TB
Hdd Drives, which ar F and G.

Yesterday, when I started the system, I tried to log onto drive
g. Windows reported a drive error. Of course, being Windows, the
operating system did not tell me what type of error was affecting
the drive, only that Windows could not access it.

I ran CMD, and in the DOS shell window, I used CHKDSK with the /f
switch. CHKDSK, reported that it could not attempt to scan the
drive because of a drive error and closed itself and returned me
to the DOS Shell window.

My question is, is anyone on this list, using a good disk repair
utility, which is accessible using JAWS
At present, I have no idea, as to whether the problem is with
the partition, its format or the problem is with the files which
hold the information about the data stored on the drive.

Any Suggestions please.

Sincerely:

Dave Durber

--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?

John Covici wb2una
covici@ccs.covici.com

--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?

John Covici wb2una
covici@ccs.covici.com