Re: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or maybe diagonal

  • From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:06:40 +0200

I use the jaws/mouse cursor rather often for some things that are a lot easier 
with it, and, did manage to make it do a classic mouse cursor drag-and-drop the 
other day, where it literally saved me quite a bit of time in terms of carrying 
out an action that would have taken me at least a couple of hours - and 
probably worn out parts of my keyboard - but anyway...<smile>

Aside from wanting to be able to occasionally limit it to something like only 
horizontal/vertical, I just wish the jaws cursor could at least render as much 
interactive feedback as NVDA's one does, although at least you can still ask 
the jaws cursor for it's coordinates, but not always worth it.

Stay well

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dale Leavens 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:44 PM
  Subject: Re: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, 
or maybe diagonal


  I thought I was the only one who considered those JAWS "features" to be 
redundant!


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ken Perry 
    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:24 AM
    Subject: RE: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, 
horizontal, or maybe diagonal


     

    Yes I know it does and I know that system access has one of the better 
mouse systems.  And I know that Jaws also has all kinds of ways to move the 
mouse.  What I am saying is when you have a Mac book pro the touch pad becomes 
a very nice tool to scroll through web pages, tab through forms, check status 
do all kinds of things including enumerate windows that are open.  You can even 
spatially tell where things are on the screen by moving around with the touch 
pad.  I can see no reason why the screen readers on windows cannot use the 
multi touch pads of the notebooks.  Oh wait yes I can they are all too busy 
making useless features like research and chat and things.

     

    ken

     

    From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd
    Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:17 AM
    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: RE: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, 
horizontal, or maybe diagonal

     

    Window-Eyes has a function for limiting mouse movement to vertical or 
horizontal directions.  I don't see it used very often by anyone, and people 
have probably forgotten that it exists.

     

    Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer

    National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

    Library of Congress   202-707-0535

    http://www.loc.gov/nls

    The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of 
the Library of Congress, NLS.

     

     

    From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
    Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:39 AM
    To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, 
or maybe diagonal

     

    I know this is a little off-topic, but just thinking that sometimes, in 
some types of situations, it might be useful/nice to use a physical mouse, but 
maybe limit the cursor movement to only vertical, horizontal, or diagonal axes, 
etc., and aside from handling mouse movement in certain specific apps, and then 
sort of correcting it, I was just wondering if there might be some utilities 
etc. out there to help you handle this easily enough, and, while I can make use 
of the jaws cursor to do this, and in fact made real use of drag and drop just 
the other day for the first time using the jaws cursor, this type of thing 
might also be nice to be able to use sometimes when jaws isn't active as such.

     

    Stay well


    Jacob Kruger
    Blind Biker
    Skype: BlindZA
    '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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