Re: Viewing all the screen at once for sighted people?

  • From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:38:37 -0800

I know in the jaws basic settings dialog there is a check box "Show
virtual viewer on screen", perhaps if you were to turn that off?

Normally for sighted users emails show up in whatever sized window
they have created in the past, with however much text shows up in that
window visible.

On 5/19/10, Gerardo Corripio <gera1027@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys: Occasionally while running Jaws family members want to take a look
> at emails they get; usually they have to be moving the down arrow key to
> make appear text onscreen line by line, thus using the virtual cursor or PC
> cursor in Jaws (depending if it's an email or word document they're looking
> at). I remember way back in the 90s when using Keysoft from Humanware I used
> to be able to do an alt+v that would allow me to show the whole screen at
> once. Is this possible in some way using Jaws? If I virtualize the current
> edit field with Insert+Shift+Control+w will this command achieve the same
> effect I'm wanting as with Alt+v in Keysoft in that I can show the whole
> screen rather than having to arrow down line by line for the sighted to see
> the text? how do the sighted look at documents and emails then? Do they have
> some sort of show entire screen command like in the Say all in Jaws? Sorry
> if my question sounds dumb but hopefully I'll get some new insights which
> will also help others in my same situation.
> Gerardo
>
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