Hi, Darragh and Andrew,
Sorry to hear that you're having issues with this. If I were seeing it, I'd go absolutely nuts, and I'll do my best to help get it resolved.
Does it happen seemingly out of nowhere where the echoing of command output works and then suddenly stops, or does something seem to provoke it? When it happens, does doing a SayLine on the line you're editing work or is that broken too? I ask because my suspicion is that something like an incoming email notification is briefly stealing focus away from Terminal and then putting it back, but JAWS no longer thinks that focus is in an area where we should automatically speak newly written text. Darragh's comment that Alt+Tabbing away and back temporarily resolves the issue is in line with this theory.
The next time this happens, will you try the following:
Turn on JAWS HomeRow/Utility Mode with JAWSKey+Windows+NumPad minus. It's a toggle, so pressing it a second time will turn it off. While in HomeRow mode, press Control+F12. This will dump a bunch of information about the control with focus and its ancestors to the virtual buffer. Escape will get you back to Terminal. If things are failing in the way I suspect, this info will be slightly different in the failure case than when things are working.
Feel free to send me the output for inspection. And by all means, let me know anything else that you think might figure into the problem.
Thanks
--Glen
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From: Darragh Ó Héiligh