Category: Geeks r Us
hi everyone,
I've looked online for this to no avail. I feel I should know this, bt it seems I don't. Anywa, I have JAWS 15, with windows 8.1. I've noticed windows wll often show notifications telling me about new mail, updates and the like. Often however, these notifications won't be echoed when they appear. I fee like there should be a way to access thesenotifications, but I can't seem to figure it out. I've got screen highlighting set to all, but I don't know if that matters. Is this just something which isn't accessible at this point? NVDA will read them if I mouse ove the notification, so I can't imagine JAWS not doing so too.
Aaaaand, it would appear my keyboard isn't working properly, so I apologize for the typing errors.
Jaws reads them, but off the top of my head I can't explain if I'm understanding your question correctly.
You are asking for example, if you receive a new email message, or it it time to update, can you read these right?
yes, that's correct. Jaws does occasionally read the notifications, but often I'll be typing, or have speech off, or some such thing, and I'll miss it when it pops up. I was wondering if there was a way to have it announce things like that, or move focus to such a notification.
Yes, but I don't know. In Jaws 15 there is a way, and it was in other versions.
Why not just ask Freedom Scientific?
Now when I have updates, I look under the systems trey and it tells me, but that is a windows setting.
Email, it goes bing, and because I use outlook, all I need do is go to the email window if I miss the anouncement and see.
If I get say an adobe update, I look under or in the systems trey as well, or notification center. In notification center, you can see them.
I didn't ask FS because I live in Canada, and their tech support appears to have no toll free number. And the last time I emailed them it took quite some time befoe I a reply. Plus it's sunday.
If you call the regular toll free number you can get to tech support. But never mind. Lol
I don’t know if this is what you mean, but here is how I see alerts I missed, or haven’t paid attention to.
To make them all show up under the systems trey, I simply make all icons show there.
1. Press windows T and tab to Notifications.
2. Next arrow up to customize.
3. Tab down and set them as you want by using the arrow key. Hide always show etc.
4. You can just tab on down to always show all icons and notifications on the task bar and you’ll see them all in the trey. There are other ways to see them, but this is the method I use when I am looking for something, plus what I’ve said above. It is too many icons to me, so mostly I just look in the section I want to find things, but I’ve set up other computers this way for others, and they like seeing them all.
Thank you. I'll give that a try.