at work, I use Windows 11 and Jaws, version 23, I think. I had a strange occurrence today. I locked my computer to go on break, and when I came back, Jaws kept saying not in table. When I tried to hit old F4 to get out of, whatever it thought it was in, it kept saying alt shift F4, which didn’t make any sense. I finally had to reboot the entire system to get it to speak properly. Does anyone know why Jaws might have done that?
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Virtually sticky keys
I've experienced this before. For some reason, JAWS is convinced that one or more keys is being held down when that's not in fact the case. I usually find that pressing the ALT key a couple of times causes JAWS to revert to the expected behaviour.
It happens with nvda too
But I really don't think it's screen reader internal bug, sometimes the keys are actually seen as pressed by software. Me too I press alt and it is generally fixed. The first time this happened to me was around 2016 when I was a kid and I was quite panicked then for good reasons... I think it may be a specific bug with windows, I was on windows 7 back then! Still happens on 11.
Weirdness Everywhere
VoiceOver on Mac does similar thing!