[JAWSLite] Re: Screen find functionality

The jaws key plus control plus F is the find function on the screen. On the sites where what you are searching for is not within the boundaries (I think that's the word) of jaws yoou will get a negative return. I haven't figured out how to overcome this and if anyone has the information please feel free. For example, I went on the web, using links from Google, to read the biography of an individual. The name of the individual was at the top of the page as in "Biography of Abe Lincoln." However, I couldn't get any other information off the page about the person. I used the jaws find and typed the word "born" into the field and still got nothing. I tried typing the name of the place where I knew this individual was born and still nothing. How can I refocus my browser on the text for the site that I want? Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Jawslight" <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Screen find functionality
Something I've been thinking that I would have expected to have in Jaws for a while would be the functionality for searching for something represented somewhere on the screen by a specific string of text, that, for example, would be in the prompt that Jaws would say when, for example, that object got focus.
In other words, something similar to searching for a specific piece of text in a word document, or text file, but since Jaws actually goes and builds itsself a virtual buffer of the screen contents, I would have expected to be able to 'search' for a specific object/control/ bit of screen content or something.
Now, when I turn on keyboard help using Jaws key + number 1, then it says that Jaws key + Ctrl + F turns on the Jaws find dialogue, but trying out that thing, it doesn't really seem to find anything unless I'm actually in a text field, so obviously, it's just another keystroke to activate something that you can generally access using various keystrokes in different programs (e.g. Ctrl + Shift + F in OE).
Anyway, was just wondering if I'm missing something, or whether there's some or other workaround for this type of functionality, since, alternatively, you might sometimes need to use something like WinDig to 'find' a specific control. 

Any thoughts/ideas?

Thanks in advance

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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