Richard,

           Thanks.  If it's not happening for anyone else (and I await additional data points with bated breath) then there's probably some weird corruption on this specific machine.

Yes I had the same problem, I installed the Dell sound drivers!

You can get from Dell web site or use the Dell update manager

FYI, check your device maneger and see if the sound is using Windows drivers or Dell drivers!

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop and after updating to version 1809, the sound quality is in the toilet.

It sounds like someone talking through a tin can.

This is one of those built-in sound cards that have almost know adjustability.

Anyone else finding this?

Richard

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I just checked with Jaws 2018 and 2019 beta, on Windows 10 Home 64 bit running the latest Windows 10.1809.

Signatures read fine with both.

Richard

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 3:36 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: JAWS 2018 & the Signature Dialog in Outlook

I am encountering the following problem on a Windows 7 machine running JAWS 2018 and Outlook 2013.

If you get to the Signature dialog,

                ALT+F, T, get to the Mail entry in the Options Dialog, then Tab to the Signatures button

then navigate to the edit box for the signature itself JAWS will not read the content.  If I go letter by letter it's an endless litany of "blank," and hitting INS+Down Arrow to make it read the whole signature text gives absolutely nada.  If you tab around to the other controls in the dialog the various buttons, etc., are correctly announced.

Is anyone else able to replicate this for JAWS 2018 and Outlook 2010, 2013, & 2016 - whether on a Windows 7 or Windows 10 machine?
--

Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134  

    A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

          ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

I am encountering the following problem on a Windows 7 machine running JAWS 2018 and Outlook 2013.

If you get to the Signature dialog,

                ALT+F, T, get to the Mail entry in the Options Dialog, then Tab to the Signatures button

then navigate to the edit box for the signature itself JAWS will not read the content.  If I go letter by letter it's an endless litany of "blank," and hitting INS+Down Arrow to make it read the whole signature text gives absolutely nada.  If you tab around to the other controls in the dialog the various buttons, etc., are correctly announced.

Is anyone else able to replicate this for JAWS 2018 and Outlook 2010, 2013, & 2016 - whether on a Windows 7 or Windows 10 machine?
--

Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134  

    A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

          ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 3:30 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Making JAWS announce shortcut sequences

Mike,

           Thanks for the tip, but I have now come to the conclusion that something's off in JAWS 2018.  I am getting precisely the same behavior on two different machines, one running Win7/Word 2013 and the other Win10/Word 2010.

            The issue is not in Word, as it's showing the shortcut keys as you hit ALT+{Ribbon Letter} for all the controls in the ribbon, JAWS just refuses to read them off as you traverse the actual controls themselves.

             I reported the issue on the Win10/Word 2010 machine and the response I received is one of those non-response responses that infuriate me.  "We no longer support Office 2010."  Well, VFO, let me tell you that while I understand this, you can be darned sure that something that's appearing with Word 2010 related to the ribbons can and will be appearing for later versions.   And, of course, it is.   I'm fine with saying we no longer support Word 2010 at this juncture, but the follow on should be, "and we will check if this behavior is present with JAWS 2018 and later supported versions of Microsoft Office."  It's pretty clear that's not what's happening.
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Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134  

    A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

          ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

hey guys. OK, as an example, if i hit, f1, all my audio mutes. This
has to be related to it

On 10/2/18, Jed Barton <jed@...> wrote:

this is getting stranger by the minute, the function keys don't seem
to be working well. i can't figure it out, like they don't seem to be
working right any thoughts?

On 10/2/18, Mario <mrb620@...> wrote:

an idea, but you probably thought of this.

first thing to check is the keyboard layout that the screen reader is
set to use. the laptop layout should be set for the laptop, see if that
makes a difference.

second, you can enable keyboard help and press that key to see if it is
identified as a home key. if you're using JAWS or NVDA, the command is
insert+1 above the letters. this is a toggle to enable or disable the
feature.


-------- Original Message --------
From: Jed Barton [mailto:jedbarton@...]
Sent: Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018 6:53 PM EST
To: main
Subject: strange navigation issue with firefox

Hey guys,

OK, got a good 1 here. So i haven't used the actual keyboard on my
laptop on ages. I usually use an external 1, but tonight i am using
the internal keyboard. For some reason, i am on a web page, and i
pressed alt home, or what i thought was alt home, and that usually
goes back to my home page. Not on the actual laptop keyboard, it's
not working. puzzled to say the least. At the end of the function
keys, there are a bunch of other keys, and atleast from my experience,
the 1st 1 of those keys is home. Am i missing something here, any
ideas? It works fine on my external keyboard.

Thanks,
Jed



.

Hi, Joseph. This is concerning your problem with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and Windows 10, getting stuck at 89 percent. I recently upgraded my computer from Windows 10, version 1803 to version 1809, (OS Build 17763.1). Since upgrading, I rescanned the Using FreeDos pdf with which you were having trouble, when Adobe Reader was set to “Infer Reading Order From Document”. Now that I have upgraded, the document no longer gets stuck at 89 percent. If you upgrade your system to Windows 10, version 1809 through the System Updates under Settings>Update And Security, It would be safe now for you to scan your pdf with the default settings in Adobe Reader DC. You no longer need to use “Use Reading Order In Raw Print Stream. The document will scan slower, but you might get a better rendering of the document. This is because the default setting, “Infer Reading Order From Document”, observes and processes the document with any tags within the document.

 

Bill White

 

billwhite92701@...

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Joseph Norton
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 10:26 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: May need alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader

 

Thanks, I’ll give that a look.

 

The document is pretty straight forward, but, Adobe freezes in the middle of processing—maybe that’s actually JFW freezing.  Maybe Adobe is just fine with it.

 

However, NVDA doesn’t like it either.

 

Just in case anyone wants to look at it, it’s an eBook on using FreeDOS.

 

The file is at:

 

http://www.freedos.org/ebook/download/using-freedos-24.pdf

 

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:12 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: May need alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader

 

Acrobat is always kind of sluggish.

If it’s not a scanned image document and is straightforward in general (iE, an etext or something), you can use qRead. It’s a nice little programme that very quickly opens pdf and epub files. I like it because it’s very fast. However it doesn’t have many of the features Adobe has. It’s generally meant for books or similar context with straightforward, linear text.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Joseph Norton
Sent: September 21, 2018 11:42 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: May need alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader

 

Hi listers:

 

Recently, I have been needing to access some PDF’s.  For some reason, whenever I try to use Acrobat Reader DC, the program seems to be very sluggish, sometimes, even unresponsive.  Is this becoming a problem?  If so, is there another solution that will work better with JFW?

 

Thanks!

Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134  

    A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

          ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop and after updating to version 1809, the sound quality is in the toilet.

It sounds like someone talking through a tin can.

This is one of those built-in sound cards that have almost know adjustability.

Anyone else finding this?

Richard

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John:

I have had some luck viewing pdf files in google chrome.  Find the file on your computer you want to look at and hit your application key, which is the same as right clicking on the file.  A menu will pop up, arrow down until you find open file with submenu and hit enter.  You should see an option to open with google chrome.

Alternatively, open google chrome and press control-o for open file.  Find the pdf file you want to open and hit enter.

I have had some good results viewing some pdf files in chrome, but I do not know if you will be able to read your table correctly.  I do know that I have used the find command successfully when the file is readable.

I believe this will only work with searchable pdf files with actual text.  I do not think this will work with image files that need to be recognized by Jaws.

I hope this helps.  I wish there was a better more consistent alternative then pdf files, but we are stuck with what the standard public is using.

Randy Meyer

Hello:

I am using Acrobat Reader to access PDF files for a project at work.

This morning when I opened a file, the tables in the file were no longer available and the find function does not seem to be working.

Opened this same file yesterday afternoon and all was well. 

Tried opening the file several times and also rebooted.  Get the same result.

Has there been an update to Acrobat Reader that I am not aware of or any other suggestions to get Reader to work as before?

Thanks,

John Doering

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Hello:

I am using Acrobat Reader to access PDF files for a project at work.

This morning when I opened a file, the tables in the file were no longer available and the find function does not seem to be working.

Opened this same file yesterday afternoon and all was well. 

Tried opening the file several times and also rebooted.  Get the same result.

Has there been an update to Acrobat Reader that I am not aware of or any other suggestions to get Reader to work as before?

Thanks,

John Doering

Administrative Pricing Asst 

p. 4147783040 Extn:4063  t. 800-642-8778

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