[jaws-uk] Fw: Dorothy's Problem

'And as such the easier fix would-be for Freedom etc.,the last para is 
interesting.So Mr Eric Damery if Bryan Carver did speak to you as he told me he 
would on  the 19th January and the meeting was with both your self and Dr Lee 
Hamilton will someone out there please bear in mind that Dorothy is still 
waiting. there is nothing to be  ashamed of in either  we  will  or we wont out 
loud. but not for Gods sake in a phone call asking the following " are you 
recording this"  cannot you see that? Is it too simple is it too plain and  
down to earth. Then it shouldn't be is what I am saying and I make no apology 
for it.Dorothy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Will Pearson 
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 5:37 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Dorothy's Problem

Hi,

I've taken a look at Dorothy's problem, thanks to Léoni Watson for bringing 
this to my attention.

The problem stems from the fact that the design of JAWS appears to treat all 
white text on a black background as being text that has been selected by the 
user.  The NewTextEvent, which is responsible for reading any newly written 
text to the screen, then reads all the newly written selected text in addition 
to the current line.  This will occur when you add text to an edit control, 
scroll an edit control, or anything that changes the displayed text.

Eric Damery's suggestion of disabling the use of "Windows standard 
highlighting" within JAWS will resolve this problem, although it will cause 
problems elsewhere, such as not being able to read menus, and as such isn't a 
valid suggestion.  This should be curable by modifying various JAWS scripts to 
change the logic in the NewTextEvent to realise that white text on a black 
background doesn't always equate to the semantics of selected text.  However, 
this would be a required change in every script that implements the 
NewTextEvent, and as such the easier fix would be for Freedom Scientific to do 
a bug fix on their false assumption of white text on a black background always 
equating to selected text.

If you upgraded to JAWS 6.10, I think it is, you may get some benefit from the 
Enhanced Edit Mode feature that they introduced in that version.  Although, I 
have to point out that the Enhanced Edit Mode feature has it's own set of 
problems.

Will
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