Re: putting Jaws in the system tray?
- From: "Kiran Kaja" <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:06:34 +0530
Even if no sighted person is using the computer, I always have the jaws icon
in the system tray so that it will not interfere when AltTab between
applications.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: putting Jaws in the system tray?
> There is one other advantage I can think of for having Jaws in the system
> tray for many of us who share a computer with others as I do mainly at
> work
> but also occasionally here at home.
>
> Sighted people often do not like working with Jaws running, very
> particularly on Web pages where the image jumps about following the
> virtuous
> cursor. Visually and mouse oriented as these sighted people very
> reasonably
> are, they can find jaws in the system tray and in the language they use,
> "X"
> it off.
>
> I have known some to mute the sound on the sound card which really screws
> up
> access but that is another story for another day.
>
> Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario
> dleavens@xxxxxxx
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 1:11 AM
> Subject: Re: putting Jaws in the system tray?
>
>
> There is no definitive answer, because it's a personal preference thing,
> nothing more, nothing less. If it's in the system tray (which has nothing
> whatsoever, by the way, to do with the start JAWS automatically setting),
> it's more out of the way, that's all.
>
> Bruce
>
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> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Robert Hebert wrote:
>
>> Jim, why exactly do we need jaws in the system tray anyway?
>> I have jaws configured to start automatically in my profile of windows
> XP/SP-2
>> and I can also access it from anywhere with hot keys.
>> Is the functionality of jaws enhanced by having it in the sys tray? With
> all the
>> talk about jaws in the system tray perhaps it would be good to have a
> definitive
>> answer (assuming there is one)--for those of us who may not know--the
>> pros
> and
>> cons of the above. Thanks!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 8:44 PM
>> Subject: RE: putting Jaws in the system tray?
>>
>>
>>> It get it out of the way on the task bar. Personally I would like to
>>> hide it all together tell I need it and call it up with jaws j. But no
>>> one asked me.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>> Behalf Of Marsha Anderson
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 2:31 PM
>>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: putting Jaws in the system tray?
>>>
>>>
>>> Why would you want JAWS in the system tray? Just curious.
>>>
>>> Marsha Anderson
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