Hi Catherine
With Word opened, press INSERT+F2.
Press C for configuration and press ENTER. You'll hear JAWS announce the
configuration file it has opened.
Press ALT+S to bring up the menu.
Arrow down to TEXT PROCESSING and press ENTER.
Press tab until you find the item you need. Please remember that in most
cases you land on radio buttons which you enable by placing the highlight
moving the up or down arrow on them. Once you've altered what you want to
alter press ENTER on OK and then press CTRL+S to save your changes.
More important than any of the above, is to remember to press INSERT+F1 if
not sure what the setting one is about to alter does. Finally, in Jaws7 you
can re-load all the original settings by keying: Jaws7 /default in the run
window. To go to the Run window you press WINDOWSKEY followed by the letter
R. Knowing this last thing has made me loose my fear of messing things up
for ever!
I hope you will very soon re-gain your confidence while working with Jaws.
Carlos V.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jaws-Uk" <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:46 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Struggling to understand customisation in 7.0
Hello all,
I've got a specific question here, and a general comment.
My question is how do I get JAWS 7.0 to indicate capital letters by saying
"Cap", in Microsoft Word, and to do so both when I am cursoring down line by
line and across character by character? But not during Say All.
Step by step instructions would be most appreciated.
Now my general comment. I apologise if this has been gone through before but I've only just upgraded to 7.0 from 4.5. I don't want to start a long topic of moaning here, but I would appreciate people's views on what I am feeling.
Am I alone in feeling that the array of customisations to do with how JAWS speaks formatting, punctuation etc is unnecessarily detailed and very confusing? I think I should be able to work out the answer to my above question by myself. But I can't.
I've been using JAWS since 2001, and Windows since 1998. I consider I'm
pretty good at working things out, and, if I can't work things out without
doing so - reading help topics and following instructions. And I know
products change over time and we have to do an amount of learning. But I
think there's something wrong when an experienced user such as myself can't
get JAWS to announce capitals in the way I want it to; and can't get a
quick, understandable answer from the help topics. Does anyone else find
this?
If I am struggling, I am wondering how does a user new to JAWS manage?
To a certain extent I guess my frustration is to do with the change from
what I'm used to; and to the fact that, because I've grown used to e.g.
capitals being announced in a certain way, I want it exactly the same. But
I'm sure that's not all of it - apart from the quest to get the settings the
same, I'm just generally quite baffled by the differet places/choices one
goes to to make changes - verbosity; configuration manager; JAWS/options.
This has always been the case to a certain extent but to me it seems worse
now (unless I'm getting less patient with age). Some of it isn't logical to
me - e.g. Why is something called x manager (Speech And Sounds Manager" not
listed in "JAWS Manager" invoked by pressing ins F2? I found it in
Configuration Manager...but hey, this doesn't make for a very usable
structure to me.
I have come to the point where I'll have to put in a lot of time to learn
this product as well as I need to. I think this learning time could be
dramatically reduced if the menus/managers were organised in a more logical
way. And if they are to be like this, I'm thinking it would be good to have
a wizard to step through the process of making customisations.
Also what I find noteworthy is one of the reasons I chose JAWS in the first
place over WE was the fact that I found JAWS's interface/customisations to
be intuitive. I no longer find this to be the case. (I don't want to start
a discussion about WE v JAWS, but I'm just interested to know whether anyone
else finds/found this frustrating too).
Catherine
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