Re: Announcing Highlighted text
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:17:49 -0800
Hi Debbie,
Forgive me, but I'm laughing because this has become so complicated. To my
embarrassment, I have a feeling that I ought to take a minute sometime today
and just open Jaws help, look in the key commands area, and see how the
purpose of this key combo is defined by FS itself. A further irony is that
I usually am so careful in the way I select text that I didn't even think of
needing something to confirm my selections until this thread, and then my
curiosity wound up confusing me as I earnestly tried to figure out all this.
Ack. Sorry to have intruded here. All I wanted was a definition such as
I'm likely to find in the help material.
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Kessler" <jessesgirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Announcing Highlighted text
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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