[jawsscripts] Re: Silencing Windows keyboard commands in Jaws
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:45:26 +1000
ah, but ben, Doug is very cool indeed!
He knows much.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Humphreys" <brh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Silencing Windows keyboard commands in Jaws
> Doug,
>
> That's a really cool solution!
>
> Ben
>
>
> At 10:50 PM 7/18/2011, you wrote:
>>You should be able to do it by attaching them to a script in default.jss
>>that just types the key but doesn't say it:
>>
>>script QuietKey()
>>typeCurrentScriptKey()
>>endScript
>>
>>But modifying default.jss has its own issues. For one, if you update
>>JAWS, you had better remember to rebuild your custom default.jss or
>>some things can stop working. The way around that is to chain one
>>default.jss onto another; but that is a tricky business to set up, and
>>doing it wrong can render JAWS pretty much inoperable until you clean
>>it up.
>>
>>My advice for a first crack at this is to add the above three lines to
>>default.jss and recompile, then start attaching your keys to QuietKey
>>in default.jkm.
>>
>>On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:30:40PM -0700, Andre Williams wrote:
>>Hi.
>>
>>There are certain Windows hotkeys I have set up which I would like jaws
>>not
>>to verbalize whenever the hotkey is pressed. I'm curious if anyone knows
>>how
>>to edit the jaws keyboard file such as default.jkm so hotkeys do not speak
>>when pressed.
>>
>>I called FS tech support and they told me this could not be done. This
>>sounds like a simple task but the tech support guy took a long time
>>thinking
>>about this and trying different things out before concluding this was not
>>possible.
>>
>>For example, while in jaws beginner keyboard layout, I would like jaws not
>>to speak when I press Control Alt I to launch my browser. The FS
>>technician
>>stated I could change to advanced keyboard layout or simply go into
>>keyboard
>>settings and disable the announcing of such keys as control shift alt etc.
>>The problem is that I want these keys spoken, I just don't want certain
>>combinations of hotkeys spoken like jaws key + control + letter s etc.
>>
>>This sounds to me like a very simple task and very possible. If anyone can
>>1up the FS technicians I'm all ears.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Andre
>>
>>
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