Thanks to all who helped with this. I'll investigate and let you know how it goes. Regards. Ron On 01/08/2014, David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ron, > the way Jaws reads the table in the metadata editor is a little confusing. > The table has two columns: tag and value. There are a number of preset tags, > like artist name and track title. > Unfortunately when jaws reads one of these preset tags it says the name of > the tag, followed by "edit unavailable", followed by "type in text". The > last two are clearly contradictory. You can't edit the names of these preset > tags, but you can edit their values, which are in the value column. > So entering some data might go something like this: > 1. The initial focus is the artist name tag. > 2. press tab to move to the value column. If desired, type in an artist > name. > 3. Press tab to end any edit and move to the next cell in the table which is > the track title tag, on the second row. > 4. Press tab to move to the value column, and if desired, type in the name > of a track title. > 5. Press tab to end any edit, and move to the next cell in the table, which > is the album title tag, on the third row. > 6. and so on. > > additional notes: > 1. To move from any cell in the tab to the next control in the dialog, press > ctrl+tab. > 2. When you type in the value of a genre, audacity looses the first letter, > so you have to type this twice. > 3. There's more info on this dialog in the metadata editor section of my > Jaws guide. > > David. > > > On Thursday, 31 July 2014, 14:29, Ron <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi All. > Having been a long time user of Audacity, I have > never tried typing in the edit metadata boxes for title, artist etc. > Today I tried doing this, but the words I typed did not appear. > > Using Jaws 13 with Windows xp, could anyone advise > how to overcome this? > > Many thanks. > > Ron > > The audacity4blind web site is at > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > Audacity keyboard commands, and more... > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject line > unsubscribe > > The audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe