I've had the experience where the system freezes up when I'm using Jaws
and Firefox. It used to happen fairly often a couple of years ago. Now
it happens only once in a long while.
You might try resetting Firefox. I think you go into the Help Menu and
press enter on Troubleshoot. The screen that comes up asks if you want
to Refresh Firefox so it's like new. Press enter on the Refresh button
or link, and I believe you have to press enter on Refresh again on the
next screen.
On 10/22/2017 1:48 PM, Jim and Anne Murphy wrote:
> Hmmm. If I wait .. JAWS comes on but I cannot tab through and click on anything, I hope this makes sense.
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> Here's something to ponder: If your computer is set to update automatically and/or to run Windows defender; if FireFox automatically updates or if some video needs a lot of bandwidth to load will Jaws speak to you while any or all of these things occur? NVDA sometimes does but usually it becomes silent and sluggish while things are happening in updates or defender. NVDA does have rising tones when videos or software are downloading.
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> Lately I have noticed that FireFox allows NVDA to announce when it is updating. Could it be that Jaws is unable to speak while many of the aforementioned processes are happening?
> What happens if you wait awhile?
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> On 10/22/17, Jim and Anne Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Not sure how to ask this or explain this but lately the computer seems
>> to lock up
>>
>> Either on Fire fox or IE
>>
>> I do have the latest versions of both browsers
>>
>> JAWS not speaking and it gets "stuck" and can't tab to make JAWS talk
>>
>> I turn off the computer with the button
>>
>> Any insights?
>>
>> ***Should I just switch to chrome?
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