[jaws-uk] Re: Fw: Re: Dorothy's Problem
- From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:12:26 -0000
Dorothy,
I think you are saying that guide does not do enough for you. You would
need to be able to customise the colours.
Your filing is most impressive btw.
Good luck,
Nigel
I fully believe that one day blind people will rise up against their sighted
oppressors and poke their eyes out with a red hot poker.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:56 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Fw: Re: Dorothy's Problem
> |Ni
> gel, at least my filing system is not bad, I see you mentioned Guide as
> early as this, I thought the one mentioned on the radio the other
> week was something new, he indicated that to me on phone. Anyway I would
> need more than that. Now looking at the last few lines in will's comments
> anything new would have to do or stop doing and be logical,not see
> white print and go off his head as Jaws does.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nigel
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 4:01 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Dorothy's Problem
>
> 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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