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

  • From: "Richard Sherman" <squirman@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:36:54 -0700

Hi,
Don't forget that there may be many ways to skin a cat. But no matter how 
you do it the cat won't like it. ha ha

Now for the serious note. What works for one may not work for another. As it 
has been pointed out that there may be multiple ways to accomplish the same 
thing. All points of view are good in their own way.

Each person just needs to practice to find out what works for them in 
whatever particular situation they are in.

Jaws is a very powerful piece of software and we are all learning at 
different paces.

Rich

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Yardbird
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:19 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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