Hi all,

I've noticed an unusual phenomenon, which makes no sense, and I'm 
wondering why it happens.

First, I'm going to ramble for a moment. Lately, I've been using NVDA 
much more often than I ever have because Jaws has gotten buggy about a 
lot of things. In fact, it has become routine for me to switch screen 
readers in the middle of a computer session. If I switch from Jaws to 
NVDA, things go pretty smoothly, but if I switch from NVDA to Jaws, I 
frequently have to close and reload the program I'm in the middle of 
working with because Jaws isn't always able to read what's on the 
screen. It's like Jaws can work with the program if Jaws is opened 
first, but not if the program is opened first.

Now for the weirdness. I use Word to read and respond to my students' 
homework. I create a folder for each assignment and put all submissions 
and a grading rubric into the folder. Then when it's time for me to 
settle down to some grading, I use the Open dialog to navigate from 
Documents to the folder so I can open the first student's submission, 
and after that, I only have to find the next student's file since I'm 
already in the right folder. The weirdness is that, if I switch from 
NVDA to Jaws in the middle of a grading session, I usually find myself 
back in Documents and have to navigate to the homework folder again.

The first few times this happened, I thought I'd closed the session or 
navigated to another folder and just didn't remember. Later I started to 
pay attention, and I noticed it happens most of the time. If I switch 
from Jaws to NVDA, the Open dialog correctly takes me to the same folder 
I was in the last time I open a file, but if I switch from NVDA to Jaws, 
I tend to go back to Documents.

Why would switching screen readers (i.e., switching to Jaws in the 
middle of a session) have any effect on the last folder I opened?

Just curious.

Ciao


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