[JAWSLite] Re: Screen find functionality

Thanks for the reply.
Like I said in the original message though, the part of searching actual text 'fields' like webpages, e-mail messages, word documents, text files etc. etc. isn't the problem/query.
I was just asking if it's not 'possible' using Jaws to search other areas of the screen like dialogue boxes, windows etc. with the idea being to be able find buttons, onmouseover areas etc. etc., where I have an idea of what their labels will say, but which, for example, aren't in the actual 'tab order' as such, meaning that normally, you'd need to switch over to the Jaws cursor, and then try find/navigate to them in order to either 'click' on them, or even just get the actual focus onto them.
Tried various things like using either the F6 key, or sometimes Ctrl + Tab to try get to their 'frame' (not necessarily the 'frames' which Jaws implements), but maybe that's part of the issue - maybe I should look into the functionality of Jaws to 'list frames' or something? 

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Moore" <donmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:19 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: Screen find functionality



Hi Jacob,
Just press Control f when you are on a web page, type in a text string and press Enter. JAWS will go to the first instance of that text string on the page. To find subsequent instances of that same text string on that web page, keep pressing F3. 

   Hope this helps,

   Don
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Jawslight" <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:45 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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