Re: Announcing Highlighted text
- From: "Debbie Kessler" <jessesgirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:07:22 -0800
Hi Yarbird and all;
I went into Word and played with this a little.
I found that my 6.0 JAWS read the highlighted text in one document and just
read the keys pressed in another, this too was with having the same view. But,
when the paragraph was selected and read, JAWS did not say "selected". For my
new students, I suggest that they select text a word or line at a time to start
because JAWS does say selected and there is a feeling of more control. Later,
once one gets real good at this and realizes the accuracy in selecting larger
blocks of text, they will move on to this other method of selecting text. I had
a student explain this to me when he was just learning to select text and was
terrified that he might loose that text; he was righting a book at the time.
Because I feel confident in my selecting large blocks of text, often forget the
key combination for re-reading selected text.
Ok, so this peeked my interest. If I can move through a document a sentence at
a time and JAWS will read that sentence; can I select text a sentence at a
time? In my attempting to do so, I found that it did not work. What I did find
was that text was selected and moved down to another location some of the time.
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: Yardbird
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Announcing Highlighted text
Well, I'm still a little confused. Because when I select a few words, or a
paragraph, or whatever, I do it quite purposefully and Jaws tends to confirm
what's selected and what's left unselected, and so forth, so that I never am
unsure what's going on. Is there some kind of situation I'm neglecting to
think of, where a person might lose track of what they'd selected?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael G." <commodore128@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Announcing Highlighted text
Hi,
Yes, that's what we're referring to. Personally speaking, it's not a
function I'd use all that much but there are instances where it would come
in handy.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Announcing Highlighted text
> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry if this sounds dense, but when you're referring to "highlighted,"
> text, do you mean selected text? So this is about how to confirm exactly
> what you've selected, before you go ahead and copy, move, delete, or apply
> some sort of process toit?
>
> thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael G." <commodore128@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 9:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Announcing Highlighted text
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the help. That's exactly what I was looking for.
>
> Michael
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: G.W. Cox
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Announcing Highlighted text
>
>
> Hold down insert, shift and then down arrow. You may have had a hard time
> finding it because it is called selected text. I live by this.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael G.
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 6:53 PM
> Subject: Announcing Highlighted text
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Could someone tell me how you have Jaws announce which block of text is
> highlighted in a Word document? I've looked through the Help file and I
> can't seem to find it. I also looked on the Freedom Scientific site and I
> couldn't find it there either. Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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