Okay, I seem to think it may be a setting in JAWS, but I will try that now
that I have it set up for laptop like it should be. I am not on line with
IE when this happens, but I keep getting pop up messages in XP Home. Can
I do something about it?
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Steve wrote:
> I concur with the below comments from Gary. Additionally, I've set up PC's
> for other people using Win XP with 256MB of Ram, and have not noticed
> deterioration in browser performance such as that mentioned by Lou. I would
> suspect there might be other processes running in the background which might
> affect this. Certainly, I have noticed deteriorated performance when
> running other processes in the background, i.e. OCR, audio editing, etc.
> But, this has not been screen-reader specific.
>
> One thing I have noticed, is there are times when JFW will not read
> highlighted text under Win XP. The work-around, as noted on the JFW tech
> support site, is to unload and re-load jaws. It has to do with the order in
> which JFW starts under the services section.
>
> Steve k8sp
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: is anyone having problems with trunkedradio.net and JAWS?
>
>
> Lou,
>
> All I can figure is that you have some other issues going on if you have or
> had problems with jaws 4.50. I'm on a similar machine here with the xp1800
> and 512 Mg of ram and had little trouble. Certainly not anything like you
> described. I just tried that web site with both jaws 4.50 and 4.51 and no
> problem.
>
> Gary
>
> Talking power/SWR meter coming soon for the ham operators out there. Call or
> write for more information.
> Gary Jackson KK5GE
> Phone: 409-962-0353
> [log in to unmask]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:49 PM
> Subject: Re: is anyone having problems with trunkedradio.net and JAWS?
>
>
> Hi Jeffrey.
>
> A few questions, if I may. Are you using Windows XP Home by any chance,
> and how much memory are you using and how fast is your processor? My
> findings with Windows XP Home is that 512 MB of RAM is MINIMUM for JAWS on
> the internet, and more RAM would be better. With a 1.7 GHz Athelon
> processor and 512 MB of RAM running Internet Explorer 6, the performance on
> my machine is marginal. JFW 4.50 was much worse with this setup--almost
> unusable. In fact, I rolled back to JFW 4.02 until Freedom Scientific
> rolled out JFW 4.51.
>
> If you have a notebook with 512 MB of RAM or less, and a slower processor,
> then what you are describing would not surprise me on a page with a large
> amount of material on it.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 06:19 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Good morning Steve and the group. When I loaded it up it stopped talking,
> >and when it did talk it would just be in little bits.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Steve wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff,
> > >
> > > I didn't spend a lot of time at that site, but I looked at the news
> > page and
> > > the download page. I'm using JFW 4.51 with no problem at all.
> > >
> > > You might make sure you have everything configured properly for Windows
> XP,
> > > I also go into the Basic Settings Option in JFW and have it ignore
> webpage
> > > colors. But, I don't know what problem you're having with it exactly.
> It
> > > has two frames, but it loaded right away.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > > k8sp
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:10 PM
> > > Subject: is anyone having problems with trunkedradio.net and JAWS?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi everyone. I know that it has been a while, but I just got back on
> line
> > > after a month away here, and I since have gotten a lap top with JAWS
> 4.51.
> > > For the most part it is working fine, but one page I used to visit all
> the
> > > time isn't working with JAWS that well. It is www.trunkedradio.net. Is
> > > anyone having any problems with this page with version 4.51 of JAWS?
> > > There appears to be changes made to it.
> > >
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
> Home e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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> Work Telephone: (585) 697-5753
>
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