[jaws-uk] Re: Dorothy's Problem
- From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:01:46 +0100
Angel,
Good point. I also mentioned super nova as that is a combined magnifier and
screen reader. I don't know if Guide can do white on black but if it can that
will be much easier to use I would think.
Nigel
It's not what Operating system you use, it's how productive you are with it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Angel
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Dorothy's Problem
It would have made more sense to give her a program such as zoom text or
magic.
----- Original Message -----
From: Will Pearson
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:37 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Dorothy's Problem
Hi,
I've taken a look at Dorothy's problem, thanks to Léoni Watson for bringing
this to my attention.
The problem stems from the fact that the design of JAWS appears to treat
all white text on a black background as being text that has been selected by
the user. The NewTextEvent, which is responsible for reading any newly written
text to the screen, then reads all the newly written selected text in addition
to the current line. This will occur when you add text to an edit control,
scroll an edit control, or anything that changes the displayed text.
Eric Damery's suggestion of disabling the use of "Windows standard
highlighting" within JAWS will resolve this problem, although it will cause
problems elsewhere, such as not being able to read menus, and as such isn't a
valid suggestion. This should be curable by modifying various JAWS scripts to
change the logic in the NewTextEvent to realise that white text on a black
background doesn't always equate to the semantics of selected text. However,
this would be a required change in every script that implements the
NewTextEvent, and as such the easier fix would be for Freedom Scientific to do
a bug fix on their false assumption of white text on a black background always
equating to selected text.
If you upgraded to JAWS 6.10, I think it is, you may get some benefit from
the Enhanced Edit Mode feature that they introduced in that version. Although,
I have to point out that the Enhanced Edit Mode feature has it's own set of
problems.
Will
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