Dear Claire
Here is an Eric-edited version of your 14-07-2004
e-mail from Mr M. Schall:
"The Custom Highlight Options dialog allows you to
modify how JAWS will react to Custom Highlights you
have assigned for an application.
You can change how JAWS will treat Windows Highlights
and Custom Highlights and you can delete assigned
Custom Highlights, but you cannot assign Custom
Highlights from this dialog.
(See link Assigning Custom Highlight Colors. )
You will find the following controls in this dialog:
Highlights ListView
This list contains all of the defined color
highlights. To delete an item in this list, select the
Delete button or press DELETE on the keyboard.
Color Highlight Group
This series of radio buttons allows you to specify
which highlights will be spoken.
Regardless of this radio button selection, all of the
custom highlights are displayed in the highlights
ListView.
The following options are available:
· Windows Only:
When this is checked, only the Windows Standard
Highlights will be treated as highlights.
All custom colors defined for the application will be
ignored.
· Custom Only:
When this is checked, only the custom highlight colors
will be treated as highlights.
Windows Standard Highlight, inverse, etc. will be
ignored.
· Windows and Custom:
Both Windows Standard Highlights and Custom Highlights
defined in this application will be processed as
highlights.
Delete Button
This button can be used to delete items in the color
ListView.
OK button
This button can be used to save changes and close the
dialog. If this dialog was opened by selecting
Configuration Manager, Set Options, Custom Highlight
Options...,you will be returned to the Configuration
Manager.
Otherwise, you will be returned to the program from
which you selected Custom Highlight Assign.
Cancel button
This button can be used to cancel changes and close
the dialog.
If this dialog was opened by selecting Configuration
Manager, Set Options, Custom Highlight Options..., you
will be returned to the Configuration Manager.
Otherwise, you will be returned to the program from
which you selected Custom Highlight Assign and a
Custom highlight will not be assigned.
Previously assigned Custom Highlights will not be
altered.
Windows uses highlights to set apart icons and menu
items that have the system focus. Text that is
selected is also highlighted. The colors used for
these highlights are set in Control
Panel,Display,Appearance.
These colors can also be set in some applications.
JAWS reads the text of highlighted items, and JAWS
echoes changes. So when you ARROW through a menu, JAWS
reads each menu item to which the highlight (or
selection) is moved.
In JAWS for Windows, you can now specify which colors
will be recognized as custom highlights for your
applications.
You can specify custom highlights based on:
· Foreground Color (text color)
· Background Color
· Both Foreground and Background Colors
Once assigned, text matching the color(s) you have
specified will be treated as highlighted by JAWS.
For examle, SaySelectedText (INSERT+SHIFT+DOWN
ARROW) will read Custom Highlights you have assigned.
To assign Custom Highlight Colors, you first need to
identify text with the colors you wish to use. This
might be text that is already present on the screen,
but is difficult to access with other JAWS features.
If text of the colors you wish to use is not already
present on the screen, you may need to set the text
color in the application.
This is not an option in all applications, but should
be possible in most word processing programs.
Text color can be verified with the SayColor
keystroke, INSERT+5.
Once text with the desired colors is identified, move
the focus of the active cursor to this text.
Press INSERT+F2 to bring up the Run JAWS Manager
dialog, and select Custom Highlight Assign from the
list.
You can also press CTRL+INSERT+H for Custom Highlight
Assign.
This will bring up the Choose an Option dialog. This
dialog lists the following options:
· Set Foreground and Background
· Set Foreground Only
· Set Background Only
Select the desired option and press ENTER. This will
bring up the Add Custom Highlight dialog to confirm
you want the selected colors to be assigned as a
Custom Highlight.
You can use the TAB key to move to the Do Not Show
This Dialog Again checkbox and press SPACEBAR to
bypass this dialog in the future.
Press ENTER for OK, and this will bring up the Custom
Highlight Options dialog.
The Custom Highlight Options Dialog allows you to view
the Custom Highlights currently assigned within an
application, delete Custom Highlights you are no
longer
using, and specify if JAWS will recognize only Windows
highlights, only Custom Highlights, or both.
The default is for JAWS to recognize both Windows
highlights and Custom Highlights.
You can press ENTER to accept the default settings,
and return to the active application.
Text matching the options you selected will then be
treated s highlighted within the
application.
*** End of the instructions ***
I know this sounds awful but please try to change your
settings, maybe it helps.
Best regards,
Michael"
Please note where he says "dialog" I think that means
"dialog box".
Regards
Eric
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