Relztrah
04-12-2007, 03:40 PM
OS: Windows XP Pro
Where I work we have a volunteer who is totally blind and uses a text-to-speech software package. He uses the Alt+Tab key combination to toggle between programs rather than the mouse. On computer #1 when he presses Alt+Tab, his text-to-speech software will say the name of the files as he scrolls through them using the Tab key. This is very helpful for him because he can then simply leave his thumb on the Alt key and move through the open applications with the Tab key listening to the names of the programs and even the name of the open file. Then when he hears the name of the program and file that he wants to work on, he lets up on the Alt key and that window is open.
On computer #2, Alt+Tab doesn't say the names of the open programs and this limits him to working with one application at at time. The only difference that I can tell is that with computer #2 Alt+Tab shows a different dialog box than the normal Windows Alt+Tab box. Instead of just showing the icons, there is also a thumbnail of the currently open window. This is not the default Alt+Tab dialog box, as far as I can tell, so there must be a setting in Windows to show a thumbnail in addition to the icons when pressing Alt+Tab and I want to disable this feature because that's what's messing up his text-to-speech software.
Both machines run Windows XP Pro. I looked through everything in the Control Panel under Display and didn't see anything that fixed this. There is not a setting in his text-to-speech software that controls this because like I say, it works fine on computer #1. It has to be something in computer #2.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Relztrah
Where I work we have a volunteer who is totally blind and uses a text-to-speech software package. He uses the Alt+Tab key combination to toggle between programs rather than the mouse. On computer #1 when he presses Alt+Tab, his text-to-speech software will say the name of the files as he scrolls through them using the Tab key. This is very helpful for him because he can then simply leave his thumb on the Alt key and move through the open applications with the Tab key listening to the names of the programs and even the name of the open file. Then when he hears the name of the program and file that he wants to work on, he lets up on the Alt key and that window is open.
On computer #2, Alt+Tab doesn't say the names of the open programs and this limits him to working with one application at at time. The only difference that I can tell is that with computer #2 Alt+Tab shows a different dialog box than the normal Windows Alt+Tab box. Instead of just showing the icons, there is also a thumbnail of the currently open window. This is not the default Alt+Tab dialog box, as far as I can tell, so there must be a setting in Windows to show a thumbnail in addition to the icons when pressing Alt+Tab and I want to disable this feature because that's what's messing up his text-to-speech software.
Both machines run Windows XP Pro. I looked through everything in the Control Panel under Display and didn't see anything that fixed this. There is not a setting in his text-to-speech software that controls this because like I say, it works fine on computer #1. It has to be something in computer #2.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Relztrah