Yes, Chris, the navigation commands are helpful. I think the sentence commands you were trying to remember are alt-uparrow and alt-downarrow, which I know work in some MS products. They don't work in WordPerfect, my primary word processor. I think Yardbird is aware of these commands, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Jenkins" <saveup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hello Adrian.Don't forget there are Jaws keystrokes allowing you to read single paragraphs and single sentences at a time. For example when I'm writing a message I like to have the sentence read back to me to make sure it makes sense. When I'm done with the paragraph I use the speak paragraph command to make sure the current paragraph makes sense.
I apologize for not remembering the keystrokes for sentences. The keystrokes for paragraphs are control + up arrow = speak previous paragraph, control + down arrow = speak next paragraph and the keystroke for speak current paragraph is control + number pad 5.
I hope this helps. Chris.Message-----From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 11:42 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Any anser on Jaws read with cursor stop? Yardbird,You've just demonstrated a limitation of JAWS. I put "stop" in quotations and not control, so that "stop" was meant to clarify the purpose of the control key. It's one of those areas where I wish FS's software developers would devote some overdue attention to improving JAWS's reading fluency. Others are to place pauses at semicolons and colons, as JAWS already does at commas and periods, and to make text inside single quotations as intelligible as text within double quotations.
As for stopping JAWS speaking at the cursor, I find the control key effective. Older methods were less so.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Adrian, You say "Jaws control stop?" Do you mean just the traditional press of the Control key to halt Jaws speaking? Or is there a combination keystroke that is designed to break off speech even more precisely than that? I confess, pressing the Control key, as I learned to do from the audiocassette tutorials that came with my first version of Jaws some years ago, has always served well enough. But maybe there's something more one can do, as I say? Or am I just misreading you? Because I do have some problems with it being difficult to navigate easily for editing in Word that I don't even wish to struggle to describe right now, and any trick that might help to tame Jaws more than I sometimes can manage will be appreciated. Jaws being to
Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: <tickpub@xxxxxxxx>Thank you for your reply, and yes this does work after checking it closer. Guess I wasn't using the Control key to stop Jaws reading or my key board is warn out and must be changed. In fact I think this could be causing me a lot of unfinished key strokes...thanks. MMM
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:33:44 -0500 "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Hi. If I understand your question correctly, it suggests JAWS is acting oddly on your system. I find that the cursor stays at the point in the text where I press the JAWS control "stop" command. I might be a few words beyond where I want to insert an edit, but JAWS does seem to respond right away and the cursor stays at that point.
If I've understood you correctly and JAWS is not behaving this way, the question becomes how to fix it. That, I'm afraid, I can't answer.
----- Original Message ----- From: <tickpub@xxxxxxxx>Hi all, just asking again if anyone might know how to make the cursor stop at the point where jaws stops reading. Let's say jaws is set to read a sentence and does so. But there is a wrong word or I need to change a word or grammer mark near the end of the reading and I want to change it. But the jaws cursor is back at beginning of sentence and now I must key my way to that last word. What settings do I use to make jaws sit at the point where it stops reading, if possible, please let me know. Thanks all, MMM
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