[access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:21:05 -0000
Peter, thanks for the reminder that it is there. I might well need it yet
<smile> -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Beasley" <pjbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:52 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
| Ok then. Why not use the free system access to go. The only limitation
is
| that you have to be connected to the internet in order to use it.
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:51 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
|
|
| > Yes Peter I know this, perhaps my message was unclear, I was saying that
I
| > stopped buying an SMA because it appeared that each upgrade broke more
| > than
| > it fixed, and what it did fix was more about Braille than speech, and I
| > don't use Braille, so the SMA was of little value, that's why I'm still
| > with
| > JFW 6.2. The dreaded thing is, that one day, I'll be forced in to Vista,
| > and
| > will have to then upgrade JFW. I even think that I'd have to upgrade if
I
| > want to use IE7, which it looks as if future Windows updates will force
me
| > to install!
| >
| > I'm not sure what the cost of upgrading from JFW 6.2 to version 9 would
| > be,
| > but I bet it's well on the way to buying Window Eyes, which I think I
| > might
| > do, if it wasn't for the steep learning curve! I don't feel I've got the
| > energy to go through all that learning, I remember how frustrating it
was
| > learning JFW, it's not something I'm keen to repeat! -
| >
| > Andy
| >
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:55 PM
| > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
| >
| >
| > | Andy wrote:
| > | I was paying for Braille upgrades which I never use! -
| > | Hi Andy,
| > | Whither you use an upgrade or not, you will still use your SMA.
| > | Like if you had Jaws 7.1 and skipped version 8 and waited for version
9.
| > | Your SMA for version 8 will have been used.
| > |
| > | Peter Logue
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
| > Of
| > | Andy Collins
| > | Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:57 PM
| > | To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
| > |
| > | Jackie - This is why I stopped paying for an SMA, because I was
finding
| > that
| > | more things were not working as well as they previously had, and it
felt
| > as
| > | if I was paying for Braille upgrades which I never use! -
| > |
| > | Andy
| > | ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
| > | To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:49 PM
| > | Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
| > |
| > |
| > || Yes Peter, thanks very much for that. But why does it do this
| > ordinarily
| > || though? How come you pay for an SMA, only to find you need to revert
| > to
| > a
| > || previous version when you need to do something I would consider to be
| > || reasonably straightforward?
| > ||
| > || It actually crashed the machine, so I lost what I'd had open, I
| > couldn't
| > | do
| > || anything.
| > ||
| > || Thanks indeed though.
| > ||
| > || Jackie
| > ||
| > || Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
| > || Skype Name: Cairnsplace
| > || ----- Original Message -----
| > || From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > || To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > || Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:38 PM
| > || Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
| > ||
| > ||
| > || > Jackie,
| > || > Just as a quick fix for the moment, since its players names you are
| > | trying
| > || > to grab, why not invoke the Jaws virtual window and take it from
| > there?
| > || > Insert plus control plus W.
| > || >
| > || > Peter Logue
| > || >
| > || >
| > || >
| > || >
| > || >
| > || > -----Original Message-----
| > || > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
| > Behalf
| > || > Of
| > || > Jackie Cairns
| > || > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:34 PM
| > || > To: Access UK Mailing List
| > || > Subject: [access-uk] Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
| > || >
| > || > Hi All
| > || >
| > || > I'm fizzing, and I mean really hopping mad with frustration, so
| > please
| > || > could
| > || > someone tell me if the following problem is me going balmy, or is
it
| > || > really
| > || > JAWS 9.0.whatever?
| > || >
| > || > When I go onto a portion of the BBC website and copy something to
the
| > || > clipboard to paste into a Microsoft Word document, JAWS is behaving
| > | really
| > || > strangely. It either hangs, or doesn't paste the information from
| > the
| > || > clipboard at all into the document. It does it now and then, but
| > more
| > || > often
| > || > than not just won't paste.
| > || >
| > || > Ian came across this with the text relating to Dale Winton's Pick
of
| > the
| > || > Pops show on the Radio 2 portion of the BBC site. He told me about
| > it,
| > || > but
| > || > it's only now that I'm trying to do it myself on the tennis section
| > of
| > | the
| > || > same site that I'm able to replicate it.
| > || >
| > || > I'm actually trying to compile a report of a tennis match for an
| > || > assignment
| > || > for my Sports Journalism course, and because I can't spell a lot of
| > | these
| > || > players' names by heart, I was copying their correct spelling from
| > the
| > || > site
| > || > into my document. But oh no! I can't do it, and have to keep
| > swapping
| > || > between the site and the report I have open to type them in by
hand.
| > || >
| > || > I'm doing this using Vista Home Premium, JAWS 9.0.whatever, and
| > | Microsoft
| > || > Word Professional 2003. Ian has already come across this problem
| > using
| > || > the
| > || > same version of JAWS with XP Home and Microsoft Word Professional
| > 2003.
| > || >
| > || > Frankly it is driving me mad, and if something is wrong with JAWS
| > that
| > | it
| > || > doesn't allow you to copy and paste from the BBC site using version
| > 9.0,
| > || > and
| > || > you have to revert to a previous version, then that's bloody
| > ridiculous.
| > || >
| > || > Ian says he had the same problem in Amazon the other night, when he
| > | tried
| > || > to
| > || > paste some information about an album into a file to save. He says
| > he
| > | has
| > || > to keep going back to JAWS 8.whatever to do what he needs to. God
I
| > am
| > | so
| > || > angry now in frustration because this is slowing me up no end.
| > || >
| > || > Any confirmation would be useful please as this is a really serious
| > | issue
| > || > if
| > || > it is down to JAWS.
| > || >
| > || > Many thanks.
| > || >
| > || > Jackie
| > || >
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