On Nov 24, 2020, at 12:04 AM, Deb and the girls <debsoundandscent@...> wrote:



I have a laptop with windows 7, jaws 2021, and have downloaded google chrome and Microsoft edge.  I selected chrome as my browser because I can’t seem to get edge to work just right for some reason.

Recently, since installing jaws 20221 and deleting jaws 18 19 and 20, I have been having difficulties.  Chrome seems to work sluggishly, not at all, or oddly.

Even when I have good internet connection, sometimes when I select chrome it will not populate.  I have to go back and select it 3 or four times before it finally takes off.  Then, at times, I will be on a web page or in a program doing something important like buying something, and it throws me out for no reason.

 

At other times, it says it can not find a page that I know is there and goes into this thing about secure and unsecure sites.  These have been secure well-known sites like amazon so why does it do that? 

Finally, I have chrome save some of my passwords.  Anyway, while I am trying to read an article or pay a bill or something, or write a birthday wish on facebook, parts of words from sites I have visited appear over and over.  I have to press escape escape to get rid of them  sometimes several times.  I see the words change password appear  in the middle of an article about health.  It is just weird, all this stuff which I have not saved bleeding into completely unrelated tasks and places.  So, is it jaws or chrome or google or windows seven or what?  Why would installing jaws 2021 suddenly make these problems worse?  I would just like some understandable answers.  Whenever you try to talk to freedom scientific, they act like they do not know what you are talking about or that they don’t handle those kinds of questions, etc.  So give me some opinions please!  Should I ditch chrome? What would you advise?         ;

Hi there.  In zoom, you can adjust your settings thus. Press tab until you hear setting button, wack enter or, press the space bar to activate, arrow down to audio, tab until you hear adjust your microphone volume automatically, uncheck this box. Your microphone audio issue should then be resolved.

I hope this helps.

Tim Appleby from Halifax Canada.

Hello, everyone.

Recently, I have been doing some online teaching via Zoom, and have noticed a very strange issue with my microphone volume.

For these meetings, I use a headset with an attached microphone.  I have experienced this issue with two different headsets.  Both headsets are connected via a USB port.

My issue is that when I’m teaching, my microphone suddenly looses volume for no apparent reason.

I can’t identify a consistent pattern to these failures, but I’m told my volume suddenly disappears to the point that my audio is unintelligible.

Has anyone else had this issue in Zoom meetings, and if so, how did you solve it?

Is there something I can do to keep my volume levels more stable?

I’m using Jaws 2021 here on a Windows 10 PC.  I also put Jaws in Speech On Demand mode as I’m conducting my classes, because they involve screen sharing, and I want to minimize Jaws speech when I’m navigating the screen.  Fortunately, I have a HIMS Polaris Notetaker that I can use as a Braille display.

Thanks for any help!

Tom Behler

Hello, everyone.

Recently, I have been doing some online teaching via Zoom, and have noticed a very strange issue with my microphone volume.

For these meetings, I use a headset with an attached microphone.  I have experienced this issue with two different headsets.  Both headsets are connected via a USB port.

My issue is that when I’m teaching, my microphone suddenly looses volume for no apparent reason.

I can’t identify a consistent pattern to these failures, but I’m told my volume suddenly disappears to the point that my audio is unintelligible.

Has anyone else had this issue in Zoom meetings, and if so, how did you solve it?

Is there something I can do to keep my volume levels more stable?

I’m using Jaws 2021 here on a Windows 10 PC.  I also put Jaws in Speech On Demand mode as I’m conducting my classes, because they involve screen sharing, and I want to minimize Jaws speech when I’m navigating the screen.  Fortunately, I have a HIMS Polaris Notetaker that I can use as a Braille display.

Thanks for any help!

Tom Behler

Today during a Windows 10 update, I lost access to my emails with Windows Live Mail setup.  Yes, I know, I've been warned about WLM's instability, but I was coasting.  Anyway, my computer guy retrieved emails and set up both WLM and Thunderbird so that emails come to both.  I want to wean myself off WLM and switch to Thunderbird and I'm wondering if someone can suggest how to find Thunderbird help for keystrokes, etc.

All help much appreciated.

Don

Dear List Friends,


I am searching for an email id for contacting JAWS support.


If anyone has the email id, kindly share the same.


Thanking all in advance for any & all assistance.

Nothing wrong with Windows 7, just because it is not getting updates doesn't
mean it's not good.
I use it and run a full scheduled security essentials scan once a week.
I would suggest that Jaws 2019 may be all you need for windows 7, as I
suspect that most if not all Jaws updates after 2019 made improvements for
running in the windows 10 environment.
I use windows 7 with Jaws 2019.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Csercsics" <bleeblat@gmail.com>
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: a big annoying problem


Any reason you cannot upgrade to Windows 10? I thought Windows 7 was no
longer supported? I'd start there, if possible.

I have a laptop with windows 7, jaws 2021, and have downloaded google chrome and Microsoft edge.  I selected chrome as my browser because I can’t seem to get edge to work just right for some reason.

Recently, since installing jaws 20221 and deleting jaws 18 19 and 20, I have been having difficulties.  Chrome seems to work sluggishly, not at all, or oddly.

Even when I have good internet connection, sometimes when I select chrome it will not populate.  I have to go back and select it 3 or four times before it finally takes off.  Then, at times, I will be on a web page or in a program doing something important like buying something, and it throws me out for no reason.

At other times, it says it can not find a page that I know is there and goes into this thing about secure and unsecure sites.  These have been secure well-known sites like amazon so why does it do that? 

Finally, I have chrome save some of my passwords.  Anyway, while I am trying to read an article or pay a bill or something, or write a birthday wish on facebook, parts of words from sites I have visited appear over and over.  I have to press escape escape to get rid of them  sometimes several times.  I see the words change password appear  in the middle of an article about health.  It is just weird, all this stuff which I have not saved bleeding into completely unrelated tasks and places.  So, is it jaws or chrome or google or windows seven or what?  Why would installing jaws 2021 suddenly make these problems worse?  I would just like some understandable answers.  Whenever you try to talk to freedom scientific, they act like they do not know what you are talking about or that they don’t handle those kinds of questions, etc.  So give me some opinions please!  Should I ditch chrome? What would you advise?         ;