[jawsscripts] Re: Scripts for Matlab
- From: "Tony Hernandez" <tonyhspeaks@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:59:05 -0500
Hi Amy. Do you know if jaws says edit or some such thing in that window?
Perhaps you could reclass the control as an edit field or a multiline edit
field and try that insert F again to see if that helps things along. This is
sort of getting away from scripting at this point, so if you want to write
off list, I'm cool with that. Otherwise if someone has a better suggestion,
I'd like to learn more.
Tony Hernandez
http://dutyofman.net/
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts for Matlab
Toney et al. - I was hoping your simple suggestion would work, but it seems
like Mathworks (providers of Matlab) rarely does anything with best
practices in mind. This has been my experience over years of working with
Matlab and accessibility software. While in the Matlab editor, on a line of
code, I press insert + f and all jaws says is "0.". Can't get it to read
color either. Tested with other app to make sure all was well and the
commands work fine with other apps. Any other suggestions ?
Thanks.
Amy
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts for Matlab
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Hi Amy.
DO you know if the Matlab application displays debugging text in a different
color? How about the attributes of the syntax errors? Perhaps you could get
JAWS to read the color change or speak the attribute if it is an underline
or something like that. Check your font info under something you know might
have the squiggly lines you mentioned under it with insert+f. You can check
the color with insert+numbers row 6 if jaws can recognize it. If this Matlab
program you use was written using best programming practices, perhaps you
won't even need scripts.
Tony Hernandez
http://dutyofman.net/
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amy Bower
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:39 AM
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Cc: 'Debbie Shafer'
Subject: [jawsscripts] Scripts for Matlab
Hi all - I'm new to the list. I'm a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. I'm a Zoomtext and Jaws user, leaning more toward Jaws as
vision declines.
I'm a heavy user of Matlab, a widely used scientific and engineering data
analysis and modeling software application. I use it on Windows platforms,
although it also runs on most other operating systems. I write a lot of code
for data analysis within Matlab. I'm looking for a source code editor that
will work well with Jaws. Matlab has it's own editor/debugger, which works
basically OK with Jaws, but there is a lot of visual information that Jaws
doesn't see that would be helpful to know about. For example, if you type a
syntax error, a little scrigglely underline appears under the arrow. It
would be great if one could scan for those with Jaws, just like in MS Word
one can use the hot keys to search for the next mis-spelled word. Since the
Matlab editor is already identifying the error, seems like it wouldn't be
too big a deal to have a script to find these errors. But I'm not a
scripter, nor do I want to learn (too much to do for my research as it is).
Also, there is the syntax highlighting, with the Matlab editor shows very
nicely visually, but how to get Jaws to help with matching parentheses,
for/end loops, etc?
I've seen reference to something called Crimson editor that claims to be
good with Jaws and source code editing for various applications. Haven't
tried it much. Would be interested in the experience of others. If possible,
I would rather stick with the Matlab editor because it has the debugging
tools built in, which allow you to click on a link in the application that
will take you right back to the line in the code where the error occurred--a
great time saver for the visually impaired!
Your thoughts and experience would be greatly appreciated, on or off list.
Cheers,
Amy Bower
abower@xxxxxxxx
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