[jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
- From: "Cearbhall O Meadhra" <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:53:37 +0100
Dear James,
I think I may not have made clear what I meant by slowing down. The speech
itself does not alter. The problem is that the response time between the
movement of the cursor key and the actual arrival on the word or character
slows down to a noticeable lapse of up to ten seconds before the character
or word is spoken. When it is spoken, it does so at normal speed. This
slowing down continues until the operation of the programme stops altogether
and I must reboot the system.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Panes
Sent: 14 April 2009 22:38
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
Hi ,
Did you try running the configuration manager while in MS Word? It could be
that the app has a lower speech rate set for it.
It's worth a look.
Regards,
James
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cearbhall O Meadhra" <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:14 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
Dear Doug,
I appreciate your response and agree that this a marginal question. Like
you, I raised it here because the problem lies with word when JAWS is loaded
and JAWS is unaffected in any other program in the same computer session.
This suggests a scripting problem. I agree that the gradual increase in
sluggishness is progressive and very much akin to memory reduction. I cannot
ascertain whether the memory loss is a factor of JAWS or of MS Word.
However, when I unloaded Word and restarted it, the problem persisted.
Likewise, unloading JAWS and reloading it did not make any difference.
All the best,
Cearbhall
"Good design enables - Bad design disables"
Tel: 01-2864623 Mob: 087 9922227 Em: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Lee
Sent: 14 April 2009 09:01
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
I usually find that such slowly increasing sluggishness is accompanied by
the notable increase in memory usage of either JAWS or the sluggish
application. You can use the Task Manager's Processes tab to figure out
what's getting bigger. Restarting that program, JAWS or Word in this case,
may help with the sluggishness.
This is a marginal question for a scripting list, but I thought a few
scripters might also want to know the Task Manager trick. It may be able to
help identify whether sluggishness is caused by script inefficiency, a JAWS
problem, or an application memory leak. If the application keeps getting
bigger but does not do so when JAWS is not running, it very well could be an
application memory leak in accessibility code.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:24:00AM +0100, Cearbhall O Meadhra wrote:
Dear Everett,
Good morning to you! Thank you for your support. It's a comfort to know that
I am not the only one with this problem! I have tried saving the file but
that does not help. I have also deleted the normal template and that does
not help. Hence I think it must have to do with the Word scripts.
The problem lies uniquely with MS Word and when I switch to the desktop or
Outlook JAWS behaves quite normally.
By the way, I forgot to mention that JAWS eventually freezes for up to a
minute or does not recover at all.
One technique I have for getting JAWS back to life is to run Narrator! This
seems to wake JAWS up and then I can exit Narrator. However, even this does
not work when JAWS has got lost and remains silent.
All the best,
Cearbhall
"Good design enables - Bad design disables"
Tel: 01-2864623 Mob: 087 9922227 Em: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E.J. Zufelt
Sent: 14 April 2009 08:11
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
Good evening,
This isn't really the list to discuss such issues, as the list is primarily
for JAWS scripting support.
Howver, I have also experienced this from time to time with MS Word and JAWS
9. I found that saving the document normally fixed the problem.
HTH,
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On 14-Apr-09, at 4:04 AM, Cearbhall O Meadhra wrote:
> Dear Scripters,
>
> Lately I have been doing a great deal of writing using MS Word. I am
> preparing assignments at the end of a training course. Sometimes I can
> be writing for up to 8 hours without a break!
>
> After a few hours, I find that JAWS takes more and more time to let
> the cursor move from word to word within the text in the word
> document.
> This
> gets so bad after a while that I reboot in a desperate effort to get
> back to a normal speed of response.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> By the way, I am using
> JAWS 9.0.515
> Windows XP service Pack 2
> HP PC
> hard disk: 41.3gb used space 33.14 gb free space I have run disk
> cleanup and defrag
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Cearbhall E. O'Meadhra
>
> BLBC Bray life and business Consulting
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