Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:26:32 -0700

But Dale, I *am* the cleverest!  Now do say hello to Roy when he comes back 
from herding the longhorns....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field


Please Please Please Why must some people have the absolutely last word?

I am sure many people choose many methods of achieving similar outcomes.

Is it necessary for everyone to insist they are the cleverest?


Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
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Skype DaleLeavens
Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field


> Well, it's in light of the last thing you said that I'm totally
> comfortable
> with just pressing control home, then E or F.  What is so time consuming
> or
> difficult about that, I can't imagine.  It's just an ordinary Windows key
> command to get to the top of the page, then the handy Jaws single-letter
> thing to find something on the page.  Bam, bam, bam.  Takes no time at
> all.
> And, though it may seem to you like two separate actions, it is *not* more
> touches of the keys!  Do you see that?
>
> I think if people wouldn't feel slavishly obligated to learn every Jaws
> key
> combo, including ones that are, so far as I can see, and no insult
> intended,
> superfluous, but understand that it's really not vital, they'd be less
> burdened by all these keystrokes to remember.  There's another, more
> fundamental point to this, which is that I think a lot of Jaws training
> and
> even, apparently its help files, have the perhaps unintended effect of
> blurring the distinction between Windows itself, Windows-based
> applications
> (Word, IE, etc. and Jaws so that the jaws user doesn't know how the
> computer
> actually works, and winds up believing that these millions of Jaws
> commands
> are all there is.  It's just kind of strange.  I ought to add that I used
> computers without Jaws before acquiring Jaws and learning to use it, so I
> had a basic sense of what was the computer and what was Jaws.  Like
> knowing
> which are your legs and which is the cane you're using to help yourself
> walk
> because the legs are weak.  See what I mean?
>
> OI----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Mitchell" <mitch44@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field
>
>
> Actually, this 3 key sequence is not tricky but your method gets you to
> the
> same place.
> I expect most people using the 3 key method use the left pinky for the
> control key and the right thumb for the insert key and the right index
> finger for the home key.  This puts you on the first form field with one
> less keystroke than your method but I think the point is that our habits
> formed with JAWS are hard to break and I just routinely use the 3 key
> method.
> Along these lines, it seems that as JAWS gets more powerful and the
> keystrokes associated with all the ever growing options and customization
> possibilities grow, the list of keystrokes seems at times
> incomprehensible.
> Mitch
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:46 AM
> Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field
>
>
> As I just said,, now that someone told me, why not just go to the top of
> the
> Web page with control home and then press F or E, depending what you're
> looking for?  this is a pretty acrobatic key command that doesn't seem
> very
> necessary to me.  But if you like it, fine.  God knows we don't need an
> argument over how many ways we can do things, etc.  So, just asking.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Mitchell" <mitch44@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field
>
>
> Hi,  Yardbird this is the same as has been stated e.g. control plus insert
> key plus the home key.  The 'home' key is also the #7 when the num lock is
> turned on.  Mitch----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field
>
>
> Wow.  I turned on the Insert 1 function to hear what this was, but my
> fingers can't figure out how to do it, even.  What *is* this?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Hicks" <citsengtwenty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:43 AM
> Subject: Re: what is the hot key for search or forms field
>
>
> CTRL+JAWSKEY+Home on the numberpad.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "francis" <francisrwama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "jfw free lists" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:46 AM
> Subject: what is the hot key for search or forms field
>
>
>> hi guys, I want to search for something on the internet, what is the hot
>> key
>> to find the form edit field please
>> visit my website www.francisrwama.com
>>
>>
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