JAWS ver 4.50.1.38

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Eric Blitzer

One of my computers is running Windows 2000, Office
Professional 2000 and JAWS 4.50.1.38 for the sight
imapaired. On the initial instance of opening MS ACCESS
everything is fine. The computer talks at any point on a
form or menu using the JAWS application. When closing an
access application and opening another or same Access
application the computer stops talking. When I go into
the Task menu and Processes running MS access shows up as
many times as you have opened Access. I have to manually
end all MS Access processes running before the talking
ability of JAWS will work in an MS Access application.
This problem does not occur anywhere else. I have tried
removing and installing MS Office but the problem
continues. The actual problem is that when you exit MS
Access the MS Access process remains running. I could
have no Access applications running but 5 occurances of
Access running in the "System Process" of the computer.

Any Help is appreciated

Eric Blitzer
 
Hello Eric:

I did a search in google groups and found another posting which described a
similar problem. Do a Google Group search for "Shortcut won't open database
more than one time" and you should find the thread.

Have you tried contacting Freedom Scientific, the manufacturer of "JAWS"?
I'll ask some of my more knowledgeable blind students if they have had this
issue...

Fred Boer

P.S. Did you notice that you had responses to your earlier JAWS posting?
 
Thanks Fred for your response. I was following the thread
las week but had to deal with the Virus and subsequent
reuter problems. I lost the date of the thread. I also
have contacted the vendor and am waiting for a response.
I will try the Google search.

Thanks for your response. By the way you wouldn't happen
to know the date of the original thread? I am having
trouble locating with the Search.

Eric
 
Eric Blitzer said:
One of my computers is running Windows 2000, Office
Professional 2000 and JAWS 4.50.1.38 for the sight
imapaired. On the initial instance of opening MS ACCESS
everything is fine. The computer talks at any point on a
form or menu using the JAWS application. When closing an
access application and opening another or same Access
application the computer stops talking. When I go into
the Task menu and Processes running MS access shows up as
many times as you have opened Access. I have to manually
end all MS Access processes running before the talking
ability of JAWS will work in an MS Access application.
This problem does not occur anywhere else. I have tried
removing and installing MS Office but the problem
continues. The actual problem is that when you exit MS
Access the MS Access process remains running. I could
have no Access applications running but 5 occurances of
Access running in the "System Process" of the computer.

Any Help is appreciated

Eric Blitzer
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I don't know anything about the JAWS software or whether it may be at
fault, but there are other things that can cause Access to remain in
memory even though you closed the application window. If your Access
application has no VBA code you can ignore these items, but if it does,
check:

+ If you use any global object variables (variables that have values
assigned using the Set statement), make sure you close them (if
applicable) and set them to Nothing before you close the application.

+ When you refer to objects with Boolean values, such as check
boxes, don't write code like this:

If Me!ControlName Then ...

but rather any of these instead:

If (Me!ControlName) Then ...

If Me!ControlName = True Then ...

If Me!ControlName.Value Then ...

This bug was supposed to have been fixed at some point, but your
version may still be subject to it; I don't know.
 
I checked with some of my students. While they didn't have experience with
your precise situation, they did say that Jaws would simply stop talking
sometimes. Their response was consistent... sigh, (perhaps swear, I
suspect... <g>), and attempt to close and restart JAWS, or re-boot...

Sorry, not to be more helpful, but adaptive software can be flaky and is
difficult to manage without direct access to the particular machine.

Fred

P.S. Just a random thought: if the program loads slowly, is it possible that
your user is impatiently clicking on the Access shortcut, and unknowingly
opening several copies of the program at once?
 
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