[jawsscripts] HotSpotClicker, hsc, was Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:28:49 +1000
Sorry Steven, miscommunication, thought you realized this.
hsc stands for HotSpotClicker, and it can be found at:
http://www.hotspotclicker.org
Can't go into it all right now, but you can read extensively about it there.
it's another utility, built on the jaws scripting language, so it's not
really a separate application per se, and after installing it on your
system, you can "tie it in," to scripts for certain applications, in either
simple or slightly more complex mode,
depending on if you need Set switching, or the hsc Prompter feature, the
latter of which I haven't found to be as useful as I'd have wished.
it has been developed over the past several years by Jim Snowbarger, and I
have been involved in testing and some of the feature set desires etc.
It's basically a bit of what I call a "menu driven, front end," approach to
seeking to make applications accessible. But has still been found to be
extremely useful for gaining quick solutions to some knotty problems,
especially for people who don't know scripting very extensively. This is
primarily where we were aiming at, when it was built.
It's primary task/focus, though it can have a range of other applications
too,
really, is to be able to set up jaws to perform various types of mouse
Clicks, on given areas of the screen, which maybe otherwise difficult to
identify with jaws, using a, relatively simple, wizard style approach, after
a sighted person perhaps, places the mouse at the location you need to be
able to click at. this can then be easily attached to a hotkey of your
choice, bringing increased drivability to applications which rely on
clicking the mouse rather than provision of decent keyboard support etc.
These locations are then called, "hotSpots." and they are assigned user
customizable names during the definition process, and can then either be
executed via a hotkey, if one is assigned, or via picking it from a list of
spots and hitting enter, from the alt+control+shift+f1 dialog after hotspots
have been defined.
It's got several very useful features in my view, but like anything, it
certainly isn't the answer to solve every accessibility problem that's for
sure. But, it can be made to do other very funky things too, like click the
mouse on the spot you've set up, then check the color of a pixel at that
location, and if it is a certain customizable color, hsc should speak a word
or phrase etc. one can also attach one's own custom built functions into
the spot definition, making it a rather powerful tool to be used in
combination with other functions, which can be most simply entered after a,
function= statement in the hotspot definition, separated by vertical bar
characters etc.
it's a cool tool!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Hicks (HICKSSM)" <Steven.HicksSM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
> sorry, wasn't aware that HSC was a separate application, is it a freeware
> programme or something?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:23 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
>
>
> > have you got hsc installed on your system, and,
> > have you got it configured for the application where your trying to
press
> > the alt+Control+Shift+G keystroke though?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Hicks (HICKSSM)" <Steven.HicksSM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:27 PM
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
> >
> >
> >> Strange, CTRL+Shift+Alt G doesn't seem to do anything on my system.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:21 AM
> >> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
> >>
> >>
> >> > couple things.
> >> >
> >> > 1. can't you set graphics to, labelled, rather than all or none, then
> > just
> >> > label the graphics you actually need jaws to be able to find onscreen
> > such
> >> > that you eliminate the extraneous annoying information of unlabelled
> >> > graphics?
> >> >
> >> > 2. why don't you just use hsc to click it assigned to a hotkey? and,
> >> > if
> >> > the
> >> > graphic/spot is static, you can not bother with the built in hsc
> >> > findGraphic
> >> > feature, but, if it's dynamic, then you obviously will need to
utilize
> >> > that,
> >> > by starting the spot creation wizard, with ControlShiftAlt G,rather
> >> > than
> >> > ControlShiftAltA.
> >> >
> >> > 3. Finding graphic labels onScreen is, in my view, rather dodgey with
> >> > jaws,
> >> > and doesn't at all work very reliably in my limited experience.
> >> > Doesn't mean it never works, but it's certainly not a sureFire
reliable
> >> > method/function in my view.
> >> >
> >> > Note that with hsc, if for example, the same exact graphic is used to
> >> > actually carry out multiple functions, such that the one label
appears
> >> > several times, if push comes to shove and you really need to, you can
> > seek
> >> > to utilize what hsc refers to in the hotspot definition editor, as
> >> > GraphicCount=
> >> > so, if this particular graphic, for example, is, say, the 5th graphic
> > with
> >> > an identical label from the top of the screen, (i.e. if you set it to
> >> > search
> >> > from top down, which of course you can alter to bottom up if your
> > graphic
> >> > is
> >> > closer to the bottom,)
> >> > then you could manually set that graphicCount=
> >> > feature, to 5, and it should, go to that 5th occurrance and click
that.
> >> > if
> >> > the video OSM is such that it's non-corrupted enough to do that,
which
> > as
> >> > I
> >> > say above, is not at all a given/reliable. but, the tools are there
> >> > for
> >> > mucking around with should it prove helpful.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Steven Hicks (HICKSSM)" <Steven.HicksSM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:18 AM
> >> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> I am just using the JAWS key plus CTRL + F to try to find the button
> > but
> >> > it
> >> >> doesn't seem to find the labeled graphic for some odd reason.
> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:45 PM
> >> >> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting A Button customer Graphic Label
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> > Does the scripting function findGraphic locate it?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On 9/8/09, Steven Hicks (HICKSSM) <Steven.HicksSM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> >> >> Hi friends,
> >> >> >> I wonder if anyone is able to help me with this problem please?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I have a graphic on the screen which I can turn on all graphics,
> >> >> >> cursor
> >> >> >> to
> >> >> >> and label as: Prev--. this is a scroll button.
> >> >> >> if I do a JAWS find from the keyboard, it won't find it but I can
> >> >> >> arrow
> >> >> >> to
> >> >> >> the button o.k.
> >> >> >> I really need to put a shortcut on this button so need to do a
find
> > to
> >> >> >> locate it with all graphics on and then be able to click it.
> >> >> >> the rest of the time, I need the graphics to be set to none
> > otherwise
> >> >> >> i
> >> >> >> get
> >> >> >> too much screen information.
> >> >> >> does anyone have any ideas how I can achieve this please?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Many thanks in anticipation,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Steve.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
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