Re: rooting question

  • From: "Bob Verity" <rtverity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:27:50 -0500

Another thought.

After you click on properties if you virtualize the window you can read 
everything with the normal JAWS reading keys.  When finished, just hit escape 
twice.

HTH

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike & Barbara 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:17 PM
  Subject: Re: rooting question


  Hi Michael;

  You ask some very good questions, questions that I can't give clear answers 
to!  I am pretty much self taught with the use of Jaws and therefore my using 
the correct terminology / terms, sucks.  I have learned a great deal through 
the various lists, reading training material, and save a hell of a lot of 
notes, which helps a lot.  One of the notes was the information that I posted 
for routing  cursors and my saved notes always have the person's name that 
provided the information at the bottom of the info.  I can't recall a 
circumstance where I have had to route the PC cursor to the Jaws cursor but, I 
route the Jaws cursor to the PC cursor quite often.  1 example is if I want to 
know the size of a file / drive, I highlight the file / drive, press the 
applications / context menu key, press enter on properties, route the Jaws 
cursor to the PC cursor, press the page up key, and arrow down 1 line at a 
time.  You can get a lot of information on things doing this.  That is just 1 
example.  I would imagine that the different ways to use the different cursors 
is infinite depending on what job you are performing.  I'm sorry that I 
couldn't have been more of a help.  Take care.
  Mike

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Gary King 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:29 PM
    Subject: Re: rooting question


    Michael,
    Have you gone through the Basic Training materials provided for JAWS?  If 
    not, I think it would help you understand how the various cursors are used, 
    along with other screen reading concepts.

    In my former life as a rehab engineer, from which I am happily retired, I 
    always thought that the training materials available for JFW were one of 
its 
    greatest strengths.  I also thought that the other major screen reader was 
    seriously lacking in this area.

    Gary King
    w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Michael Arnowitt" <foodsong@xxxxxxxxx>
    To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:35 PM
    Subject: Re: rooting question


    > Mike,
    >
    > Thank you for posting this as I have been a little confused by the terms 
    > Jaws cursor and PC cursor as I use different terms for the cursors. But 
to 
    > clarify things even more, could you give me an example of a situation 
    > where you would want to route PC to Jaws cursor, and one where you would 
    > want to route Jaws to PC cursor? Because if I'm understanding correctly 
    > what you posted and the Jaws cursor is essentially what I would call the 
    > mouse pointer, then I don't get when you would be using it as I assume we 
    > are all here trying to do things without using the mouse.
    >
    > Let me also ask another thing, maybe this is related. When you do a say 
    > all, is the cursor moving around the screen as the say all progresses the 
    > Jaws cursor or the PC cursor, or something else? On my computer, I think 
    > if I have what I call the text cursor (is that the same thing as the PC 
    > cursor?) at the beginning of a paragraph and start a say all and then 
halt 
    > the say all with control, I find sometimes - when I'm in my word 
    > processor - the text cursor is now where I halted the say all, but other 
    > times - when I'm in my e-mail program - the text cursor is still at the 
    > beginning of the paragraph, and if I do the route PC to Jaws that moves 
    > the text cursor to where I stopped the say all. Does this make any sense, 
    > or do I have something set wrong in one or the other program?
    >
    > Best,
    > Michael
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > At 09:11 PM 4/28/2010, you wrote:
    >>Hi Jenny;
    >>
    >>Below is information about what you are looking for.
    >>Routing jaws to PC cursor This is better described as moving the mouse 
    >>pointer to the PC cursor position. You achieve this by pressing insert 
    >>plus the num pad minus key. Pressing the arrow keys will now move the 
    >>mouse pointer around the screen. However importantly you will not be able 
    >>to "scroll" the pages you are viewing down.  To do this you must return 
to 
    >>PC cursor.
    >>
    >>Routing PC to Jaws This then becomes moving PC cursor to mouse position. 
    >>You achieve this by pressing insert plus num pad + Moving the cursor will 
    >>enable Jaws to control objects on the screen and for example scroll down 
a 
    >>multi page document or web page.
    >>
    >>The final thing is to remember restrictions. Sometime in Jaws or Mouse 
    >>pointer mode you do not want to move around the whole  screen but want to 
    >>keep within an application or frame. You can toggle these restrictions by 
    >>pressing insert plus R. If your jaws cursor does not appear to be going 
    >>anywhere you probably need to set unrestricted movement by pressing 
insert 
    >>plus R until you hear unrestricted.
    >>
    >>Hope this is not too confusing.
    >>
    >>David Griffith
    >>
    >
    >
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