If you are doing government work, do you have the luxury of deciding
what platform and software you use? I work for the government, and we
are definitely a Microsoft shop. I have had the experience of programs
crashing and taking the screen reader down with them. I have had it
happen with Outlook and IE, and with JAWS and Window Eyes. This falls
under the category of stuff happens. Computers are computers, and I'm
sure that the Mac world isn't perfect either.
Andy
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Hi all,
I'm using windows 7, on a gateway laptop, and using Microsoft word 2007,
jaws 12, and internet explorer 9.
I'm at a very crutial time in my life, and in what I do, and I'm very
very angry about what happened yesterday, and wondering where I'm going
next.
Here's what happened.
I'm working with the government on some important things that I will not
mention here, but I have a lot of deadlines.
So, yesterday afternoon, I open a document in word 2007, and I'm also
reading an article, using internet explorer 9, and I grabbed it and
copied it to the clipboard, so I'd have it for notes to refer to.
But then, the moment I pasted it into the document, jaws stopped
speaking.
So then, I thought to myself, "ok, launch NVDA, and see if you can read
it", and what happened? NVDA also locked up, and didn't read anything.
Then I get this message that says "microsoft word stopped working."
Folks, I have had enough with microsoft products, such as internet
explorer 9, and windows in general, that freeze up, lock up, and stop
working, and also, with jaws not reading things and with NVDA not
reading things as well.
So, my question is, for you Mac users, and you IPad users. Do any of you
folks have the night mares that I just mentioned that happened to me in
windows?
I sure look forward to hearing back from you.
Everything I'm working on, depends on what I decide to do.
All I know is, things have to get done, and immediately, with what I'm
working on.
I can't have all this down time with all the above software not working.
Harry
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