[jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:50:08 +0100
Nigel,
I understood you. The fact is, that nearly every key combination is
doable by one means or another; but people are talking about
inconvenient key combinations.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
Flor,
I don't think you understood me. I meant you use the right hand for the
insert and control keys. This leaves your left hand totally free for
the I
key.
Nigel
It's not what Operating system you use, it's how productive you are with
it.
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
> Some people naturally have small hands, so it'd be a stretch for the
> left hand to i.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 2:04 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
>
>
> Control insert I is pretty easy if you use your right hand for insert
> and
> control (on the right side of the keybord) and your left hand for the
I.
>
> Thanks,
> Nigel
> It's not what Operating system you use, it's how productive you are
with
> it.
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:34 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
>
>
>> That's a real wrist-breaker.
>>
>> Iain.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
>> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:42 AM
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
>>
>>
>> Regarding the use of the alt key: Has anybody else noticed that
> recent
>> versions of JAWS also think that our alt-gr (right alt & ctrl key)
is
>> 'alt'; and not 'ctrl-alt' as JAWS used to know it? What it is is
that
>> they're taking the English-US keyboard layout as the norm: whereas,
> JAWS
>> should be taking the correct key designation from whichever keyboard
>> layout one is actually using at the time.
>>
>> There's a fairly acrobatic keystroke for registering (or something)
> your
>> WordPerfect with JAWS, and that is, ctrl-insert-i.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Wood" <scott.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:48 PM
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Key Combinations
>>
>>
>> Hi Ian
>>
>> An interesting question. It's not only the four key ones that are
>> contortionist. I find some of the three key ones pretty
>> finger-twisting. The one I've been using recently is the MS Word one
>> for insert the date, shift+alt+D. it's just that none of the keys
> fall
>> into ergonomic simplicity and I have to hold down alt+D with the left
>> hand, which isn't usual, and the shift with the right. Once you get
>> used to it, it becomes easier but it takes some practice.
>>
>> I reckin we're running out of permutations. It would be interesting
> to
>> hear whether anyone had any ideas about how we might find other ways
> of
>> executing commands other than hotkeys. The old Frank Audiodata used
> to
>> have a dedicated keypad wich could be programmed and you could do a
> lot
>> more than you can these days without worrying about conflicting with
>> other MS commands.
>>
>> Regards ... Scott
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Iain Lackie
>> To: jaws
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:16 PM
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Key Combinations
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I have had cause in recent days to use the four-key combination to
>> examine the advanced features of webpage elements and it caused me to
>> wonder if anyone would like to suggest what they think the most
>> unreachable JAWS key combination might be. There is no doubt that
>> Freedom Scientific encourage us to go in for a high degree of manual
>> contortionism.
>>
>> Iain.
>>
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