RE: JAWS cursor and the mouse
- From: Adrian Spratt <Adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 15:05:21 -0400
I copied the following list comments some time ago. Most were written by
Chris Jenkins, and the last is from Bob Mathews. The term of art appears to
be "tether."
Freedom scientific actually did make it easier to track what's on the screen
by a sighted person by making the screen at least show the portion of the
screen where the virtual PC cursor actually is. Before this change it used
to be that the virtual PC cursor wouldn't even move the screen into focus so
if you was a sighted person like I am you would not be able to see the text
that the virtual cursor was reading since it would be off the screen more
than likely below or to the right. The thing that confuses sighted people
now is the fact that Jaws normally reads all of one column before it starts
reading the second column. It can also be confusing when Jaws for Windows
treats a link that is in a line of text like it is on its own line.
Just for a little bit more clarification the Jaws cursor is the same as the
mouse pointer and it can be in the following states unrestricted, restricted
to the real window, current window restriction, frame restriction, and
application window restriction. The invisible cursor can have the same
restrictions.
In summary just remember the Jaws cursor is moving the mouse pointer and the
invisible cursor is not moving the mouse pointer.
Three suggestions. The first solution is to tether the Jaws cursor to the PC
cursor as has already been mentioned. The second solution is when you get to
where you want them to see where you are you can select a line or two of
text which under normal circumstances will make the text change color. The
third and most expensive solution is to purchase magic and run Jaws for
Windows and magic together. Magic will do the tracking and Jaws for Windows
will handle the speech and braille.
ctrl-insert-jaws cursor will tether jaws to pc curser, and insert-r will
cycle to jaws curser to an unrestricted window.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bill White
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 10:56 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor and the mouse
Hi, John. I don't believe that Cy was asking how to route the JAWS cursor to
the PC Cursor. What Cy was asking is for the keystroke that will always tie
the Mouse Cursor to the PC cursor. I don't know what that keystroke is, but
I know it exists. What this does is allow sighted users to follow the cursor
that the blind person is using with JAWS. Often, the sighted person has no
idea where the blind person's cursor is focused when using JAWS.
Thank you. Bill White billwhite92701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: John Martyn
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor and the mouse
To map the mouse to the cursor on a desktop config, press insert plus minus
key, to map the mouse to pc, insert plus plus symbol. On laptops config,
capslock + left bracket to map the mouse to pc. To map pc to mouse, press
caps lock + apostrophy.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cy Selfridge
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:36 PM
Subject: JAWS cursor and the mouse
Okay, I have forgotten how to get JAWS to track to the mouse or vice versa.
When my wife is reading the screen and she wants to know where on Earth I am
reading from it would be nice to track the mouse to the cursor.
JAWS 11, W7 64 bit, MS Outlook 2007.
Cy
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