Jaws 7.10 not working with FireFox 1.5xx

[Glenn at home]

The jumping around was the Jaws quick navigation keys jumping to various 
parts of the screen, like, H for the next heading.
And as someone already mentioned, you press enter to turn on "forms mode" 
before typing into an edit field.
HTH.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Radical NetSurfer" <radsurfer at yahoo.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: Jaws 7.10 not working with FireFox 1.5xx


I installed Jaws 7.10 Demo.... it is running in 40
minute mode.
Since I have several friends using this I wanted to
learn it myself.

What is happening only with Firefox, and no other
application as far as I can tell,
is that the keyboard keys on the left-hand side,
r,d,f,c, etc., causes the webpage to either move
around  the screen, as if I were using the cursor
keys, or cause dialog boxes to appear that are not
from Firefox, apparently Jaws is intercepting
keystrokes instead of allowing Firefox to see them,
and running
its own dialog boxes.
I can not enter any text into any text field.
Logging into yahoo email is impossible while Jaws is
running with Firefox.

On the other issue that I mentioned;
why can't jaws just send text data directly to Com4 or
any serial comport, for the sake of whatever external
synthesizer might be there. I see no reason for such a
simple feature to be available!
I am very surprised and taken back by what I am
finding out there.  Considering the enormous expense
of Jaws to
its users, I certainly would expert far more
intelligent design then what I am finding.
I see that DoubleTalk LT is a device listed on the
available synthesizers. Well that would send data to
whatever Com port I designate. It must be that Jaws is
asking questions of DoubleTalk, or using some other
way to access Com4 then simply writely directly to the
internal uart... I don't know. I think it foolish this
isn't working as simply as I think it should be.

with that said...
I find that it could be useful, in some cases,
to have both the eloquence commanded by Jaws doing its
thing, and a dedicated application sending data to my
DecTalk via the Com4 route using my own program.
For example, since Xchat is not a recognized
application by Jaws, I am still able to hear what is
going on without a whole lot of fuss.
Naturally, I would want a properly designed Jaws
plugin
being designed for Xchat on Win32. Since I am just now
getting into this, that is a little ways off.
But it is something I would love to see.
A Jaws script and/or specific dll plugin for Xchat on
win32 and Xp would be nice in my opinion.

Just my 2 cents worth.

//Rich//




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