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Re: Form field causing JAWS to crash?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 6, 2018 5:07AM

I have experienced Jaws slowly going unresponsive in large text input
fields (such as the email field in GMail) or a Facebook message with
IE11.
Jaws starts being increasingly slow and can even crash, but I can't
figure out exactly how or why, though it seems related to selecting
text, e.g. when editing.
Since I have not been able to reliably reproduce this I have not filed
an issue, but I have experienced this on dozens of occasions
throughout the years, including recently.

On 6/5/18, Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I have experienced times when JAWS and Word stopped responding. Generally
> in the Jaws 16 days, I could bring up NVDA or Narrator and get around the
> issue. With newer JAWS when a freeze like this happens, often JAWS will
> automatically restart itself, though usually when JAWS is back Word or the
> other program that was causing the issue has now turned into a "not
> responding" application and everything is then lost.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>
>
>> On Jun 5, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jon, its impossible to answer this question without having example code
>> to reproduce the issue.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> SteveF
>> Current Standards Work @W3C
>> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>;
>>
>> On 5 June 2018 at 17:41, Jon Brundage via WebAIM-Forum <
>> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello WebAIM discussion-
>>>
>>> Has anyone run into the situation when entering a form field causes JAWS
>>> to stop working- in other words crash or create a freeze? I have someone
>>> claiming this behavior but have never encountered it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Jon
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
>> >> >> >> >
> > > > >


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