Brian, Thanks for the heads up. 1. I'll check out the capitalization problem.2. I believe the JAWS speech rate problem was addressed in TypeAbility 3.0.30 and above, but I haven't got the MAGic scripts water marker for that build. Once I sus out the capitalization problem, I'll get that done.
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To: <typeabilitybeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:03 AM Subject: [typeabilitybeta] Two TypeAbility problems Hi I have no idea if this list is still active, but one of our customers has alerted us to a TypeAbility problem. He is using the latest build of TypeAbility with jaws 10 and MAGic 11. When both are running together, and when progressing through lesson 61, pressing the right shift plus F causes jaws to announce "No, it's not the right shift plus F, it's the right shift plus F, that's F as in Frank". I have verified this and it happens on my computers also. Thank you. 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We therefore recommend you scan all received e-mail messages. Registered in England No. 4098268 -----Original Message----- From: typeabilitybeta-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:typeabilitybeta-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Pinto Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 2:25 PM To: typeabilitybeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [typeabilitybeta] TypeAbility 3.0.30 ready for download TypeAbility 3.0.30 is ready for download. This build has been devoted to 2 things. 1. Sometimes when TypeAbility was opened, the sign in screen didn't pop up. This has been solved, by putting a refresh in the AutoStartEvent. 2. TA was interfering with the users default voice settings when you're not in the TypeAbility worksheet. This has been solved by a scheme that is outlined at the bottom of this document. Please test out the following. 1. Test key repeat being off in TypeAbility, but not off otherwise. When in TypeAbility, hold down a key, it should not keep typing. Then close TypeAbility, and in another rtf document, hold down a key, it should keep typing till you let go. 2. Just for testing purposes, In the JAWS individual voice adjustment dialog, Set your PC voice rate to very fast, and its pitch to very low. Then sign in to TypeAbility and note whether TypeAbility speaks as it normally does. Then ALT TAB to another application, and note whether TypeAbility speaks with your fast rate and low pitch. 3. Basically, test out TypeAbility in ways in which you felt it interfered with your voice settings outside of TypeAbility. Thanks. Now the following are the details on the new scheme that has made the above possible. 1. Basically, there are only 5 settings that TypeAbility needs to be written to the Wordpad.jcf file. But in previous builds of TypeAbility, TypeAbility installed a wordpad.jcf file that contained lots of unnecessary settings, some of which may not have respected the user's default settings and permanently over wrote them for Wordpad. Although most users have MS word, and by default, files with extensions of .rtf are opened in MSWord, some users either do not have MS Word, or they've changed their file associations, so that RTF files always open in Wordpad, rather than MSWord. In that instance, TypeAbility's JCF settings were not respecting the user's desires. 2. Now, when TypeAbility opens, it looks in the wordpad.jcf file for the settings that TypeAbility needs to adjust. If it doesn't find those settings there, it looks in the Default.jcf file. It then stores those values in variables, so that those values can be restored when TypeAbility is closed. Note that the settings are actually restored in the Wordpad.jcf file, regardless of whether there was initially a Wordpad.jcf file or not. In the latter case, the Wordpad.jcf settings will be the same as the Default.jcf settings. 3. Although it is not optimum, when TypeAbility is installed, a blank Wordpad.JCF file is loaded. This is necessary because previous versions of TypeAbility always loaded a wordpad.jcf file that did not respect the user's settings. So to remedy this, the wordpad.jcf file has to be nulled. So, if before installing TypeAbility, the user had made changes to wordpad's JAWS settings, then those settings in the Wordpad.jcf file will be lost. Although this is not desirable, note that if the user subsequently changes the Wordpad.jcf settings, they will not be permanently overwritten by TypeAbility. They will only be overwritten during fresh installs of TypeAbility. The above scheme will ensure that as much as possible, the user's default settings will be respected in Non TypeAbility wordpad documents. 4. Now, when TypeAbility is opened, the 5 settings that are temporarily written to the Wordpad.jcf file are the following. a. Key repeat is set to 0, so users who hold down a key too long, won't be repeatedly typing that key. This is important for beginning users, and users with nervous or muscular impairments. b. Tutor Messages are set to 0. This is important so that when opening TypeAbility dialogs, the user is not burdened with tutor information. Also, when the user accidentaly activates a menu by pressing the ALT key, although TypeAbility will automatically close the menu, JAWS will never the less speak the tutor message for menus, unless tutor messages are turned of. c. Access key is set to 0. the Access key setrting can make JAWS announce the hotkey for a dialog or menu item. It's important to silence this message, so that when opening TypeAbility dialogs, or accidentally activating a menu, the user is not burdened with the access key information. d. Help Balloon is set to 0. This is important so that if the JAWS cursor is on a a control with a help balloon, JAWS won't speak it. e. Smart help is set to 0. 5. As stated earlier, when TypeAbility is closed, then in the Wordpad.jcf file, those 5 settings are restored to the user's original settings. Also note that other TypeAbility settings, such as speech rate, pitch, volume, punctuation, key Interrupt, and Typing echo, do not need to be written to the Wordpad.jcf file, because JAWS can adjust them on the fly. And those settings are also restored to the user's settings, when the user is not in TypeAbility. David