[jawsscripts] Re: New System Beeps in FSDN
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:05:34 -0300
Good morning,
Using JAWS 10 (no updates) Windos XP Pro SP2, no beeps in FSDN or any
other CHM documents.
Strange,
Everett
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On 15-Apr-09, at 7:55 AM, Donald Marang wrote:
> I don't think any of these applications use HTML. But I also have
> Auto
> Forms mode turned off by default.
>
> The sound I am hearing is the unimaginative default system error
> sound. It
> is the same sound created by the JAWS Beep function. I asked John
> Carson at
> FS if it may have been a debug line of code inadvertently left into
> the
> code.
>
> I have a feeling that it has something to do with JAWS trying to use
> MSAA to
> get information about the list even though the application was not
> actually
> developed to use MSAA.
>
> Has anyone else heard these beeps in FSDN or any other application.
> At
> least I have found an example that you guys and FS should be able to
> reproduce.
>
> Don Marang
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:28 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: New System Beeps in FSDN
>
>
>> I'm not familiar with those applications, but I wonder if you're
>> running
>> into autoforms mode somehow. If they're using a web browser like
>> front
>> end then the virtual cursor may be in effect and autoforms may be in
>> play. I'm not running JFW 10 on this system, but you might want to
>> try
>> turning that off in your JFW settings and see if that changes your
>> JFW
>> behavior.
>>
>> Donald Marang wrote:
>>> With the last two updates of JAWS 10, I have seen a change in my
>>> scripts
>>> for my Verizon program. When I move through the list view with up
>>> and
>>> down arrows, I hear a system beep! The same scripts in JAWS 9 do
>>> not
>>> make that noise. I have asked FS to look into this, but I have
>>> not heard
>>> back yet.
>>> In the last two weeks I think I have seen similar things happening
>>> in
>>> other applications. I was checking out Snapshot, a disk image
>>> backup
>>> program from drivesnapshot.de. It has a list view for selecting the
>>> drive to back up that beeps in JAWS 10 but not in JAWS 9.
>>>
>>> Most notably, I have noticed extra system beeps in the FSDN help
>>> file as
>>> well! I have always heard a beep when I type in a keyword to
>>> search and
>>> press Enter. But now in JAWS 10 I hear beeps as I arrow up and
>>> down in
>>> the list of search results as well! This is the list that I land on
>>> after typing in a keyword, pressing Enter, and then hitting Tab
>>> twice.
>>> Again, this only happens to me in JAWS 10, not JAWS 9. Can someone
>>> verify if this is truly a change in JAWS 10? If no one else has
>>> this
>>> problem, is there a JAWS setting that I might have screwed up? .
>>>
>>> Don Marang
>>>
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>>
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