Re: length of jaws training
- From: "jim" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:04:23 -0700
I won't. I taught out here for 30 years, and always told my kids, if you ask,
you won't know, so I am practicing what I preached for so long. Thanks sir,
good post.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Francis Daniels
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: length of jaws training
Hi Jim,
What is that saying? "There are no dumb questions, only the ones you never
ask." Something like that.
JAWS uses the num pad as a vital way for people to get information about what
is happening on the screen, what they just typed, to make sure they did it
correctly. Yes, you could drop some commands from the num pad, but it would
cost you in extra keystrokes or forgetting what the prompt was.
I said before that you cannot teach JAWS in a vacuum. It has to be taught
within a context so that the commands make sense. In the same way, it would be
really hard to use Windows, or Windows programs, and not use the JAWS-specific
keystrokes. For example, you are typing some text for a cool short story you
are writing. You want to listen to each word on a line, to make sure you got
it correct. You could press Control right arrow to move through the words,
using both hands to do this. You could also press Insert right arrow to do the
same thing, using just your right hand. Both do the same thing. Which would
make it easier?
By the way, in the JAWS help, they list control right arrow as the way to
move from word to word in Microsoft Word. They've dropped the Insert right
arrow function from the help description, even though the command works and is
more efficient. Go figure.
Almost all the keystrokes for reading text and screen elements are in the num
pad. Other listers will certainly add to this, but each application carries
with it particulars for how JAWS reads stuff to you. But they all have the num
pad in common, to make it easier for you to figure out what is going on and to
get going again.
I don't know about Kurzweil, as I don't use it. Maybe someone else can
handle that.
Don't stop asking, Jim.
Francis
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