It was probably some temporary glitch. There is a new interesting feature in windows where a user can create more than one desktop so they can just alt tab to applications they want to look at and then open other applications in a different desktop. The advantage is that you could have two groups of applications open and switch from desktop to desktop. The problem is that JAWS and NVDA don't announce the different desktop names when you cycle between them. You have to use Narrator.
I learned about this on the latest Blind Bargains podcast.
Dan
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From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Jeanne Fike
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] a windows 10 update and a subsequent problems with JAWS
Hi,
I'm running JAWS2020.2006. What's interesting, after my husband stopped using my computer without JAWS, I brought it back up and now the alt+tab is letting me switch between more than 2 programs.
Jeanne
On 8/12/20, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Jeanne,
>
> I updated windows and am able to open as many applications as I want
> with JAWS running and use alt plus tab to switch between all of them.
> Are you running the latest version of JAWS?
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [VICUG-L] a windows 10 update and a subsequent problems with
> JAWS
>
> Hi everyone,
> My computer updated my Windows 10. Now I can't use alt+tab to cycle
> between more than 2 open programs with JAWS running. When my sighted
> husband closed JAWS, alt+tab worked. Any ideas to fix this?
> Jeanne
>
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