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Moderated Interesting! Key strokes I thought were JAWS keys aren't!

JM Casey
 

I'm not using edge, and actually don't know what make of keyboard I had as it was just one I took from an old workplace. It'sa pretty standard and cheap office keyboard. I've never noticed this behaviour in any other browser.

Don't know where "suspected spam" comes from but it crops up often but seemingly randomly on list messages. I just delete the flag when I see it and remember, upon replying. Unfortunately I often do forget.

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Warner
Sent: November 28, 2022 04:55 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Interesting! Key strokes I thought were JAWS keys aren't!

Yeah, that would be interesting to hear if anyone else sees this behavior. I am using a wired Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 without the inaccessible Microsoft Intelitype Pro drivers, just the standard generic keyboard drivers. The behavior has been occurring for quite a while now, so long in fact that I can't recall if it was there from day one or showed up later in the game.

Also: This email came to me with "**** [SUSPECTED SPAM] ****" in the subject. How do I figure out where it is coming from? Because if it is my system, I will need to figure out how to prevent it from being added in the future.

Gene...


On 11/28/2022 4:41 PM, JM Casey wrote:
Yeah, that certainly isnt' expected behaviour.
Would be interesting to hear if others have the same experience. Or maybe this is something peculiar to/about your keyboard, even if it wasn't doing that previously.


-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Warner
Sent: November 28, 2022 04:39 PM
To: JAWS support list <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: **** [SUSPECTED SPAM] ****Interesting! Key strokes I thought were JAWS keys aren't!

Hi everyone!

For those that celebrate it, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday.

I contacted Vispero about a problem I was experiencing with JAWS and Edge and they told me that the alt+up arrow and down arrow to expand and collapse combo boxes where native to the browser and not JAWS key strokes I had always thought they were.

The problem that I was experiencing was that if I am not careful to release the alt key at the same time I release the arrow key, Edge sees it as a separate key stroke and jumps me to the settings and more button, requiring that I F6 back to the web page I am working on. Its very frustrating and annoying. I could see it doing that if I pressed and released the alt key without any other keys, but if you press an alt key along with another key, it should not be treated as a separate key stroke just because I didn't release it soon enough.

Gene...
Gene Warner
 

Yeah, that would be interesting to hear if anyone else sees this behavior. I am using a wired Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 without the inaccessible Microsoft Intelitype Pro drivers, just the standard generic keyboard drivers. The behavior has been occurring for quite a while now, so long in fact that I can't recall if it was there from day one or showed up later in the game.

Also: This email came to me with "**** [SUSPECTED SPAM] ****" in the subject. How do I figure out where it is coming from? Because if it is my system, I will need to figure out how to prevent it from being added in the future.

Gene...

On 11/28/2022 4:41 PM, JM Casey wrote:
Yeah, that certainly isnt' expected behaviour.
Would be interesting to hear if others have the same experience. Or maybe this is something peculiar to/about your keyboard, even if it wasn't doing that previously.
-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Warner
Sent: November 28, 2022 04:39 PM
To: JAWS support list <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: **** [SUSPECTED SPAM] ****Interesting! Key strokes I thought were JAWS keys aren't!
Hi everyone!
For those that celebrate it, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday.
I contacted Vispero about a problem I was experiencing with JAWS and Edge and they told me that the alt+up arrow and down arrow to expand and collapse combo boxes where native to the browser and not JAWS key strokes I had always thought they were.
The problem that I was experiencing was that if I am not careful to release the alt key at the same time I release the arrow key, Edge sees it as a separate key stroke and jumps me to the settings and more button, requiring that I F6 back to the web page I am working on. Its very frustrating and annoying. I could see it doing that if I pressed and released the alt key without any other keys, but if you press an alt key along with another key, it should not be treated as a separate key stroke just because I didn't release it soon enough.
Gene...

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