Re: Announcing Highlighted text
- From: "Michael G." <commodore128@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:59:23 -0600
Hi expereince lthogh you,
It's difficult to remember an instance of when I could have used this
command because it's not something that has come up often at all. It's
funny, but the last time I needed this command was about three weeks ago and
I had to take a test that's required by the state in order for me to be able
to teach computer classes along with access technology. This question
concerning the announcement of selected text came up during the Jaws portion
of the test and I didn't have a clue what the answer was. Ironically, I
happened to know the command for Window Eyes of all things and I don't even
know Window Eyes all that well. But besides that, one instance I can think
of where you might use this command is if you're looking to select a large
block of text, perhaps a paragraph that is four or five lines long. Now
let's say you select this paragraph using Control+Shift+Down arrow (which
will select the entire paragraph), but, then you suddenly remember there
might have been a line of text at the end of the paragraph you didn't want
selected. Here you could have Jaws announce the selected text to insure you
have what you wanted rather than arrowing down to the end of the paragraph
to make sure there wasn't any unwanted text selected. But who knows, it
might well be faster to just go ahead and do exactly that. It really
depends on your preference. I realize this probably wasn't the best example
but it's the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there
was some other instance I wanted this command for but I can't recall it at
the moment. As to your point about referring to this concept as selecting
text or highlighting text, it is primarily something that came out of my
prior experiences from when I was able to see. Right now I'm not able to see
much of anything. But for as long as I can remember, with all the computer
courses I've taken and all the computer books I've read, It was almost
always the case that they referred to this concept as highlighting. And if
you're able to see, it really does look as if you're taking a highlighter
pen and marking text in a book. But the terms selecting and highlighting
are interchangeable. It did pose a problem for me though because it
prevented me from finding this command in the Jaws help file. I was looking
for the term highlight when I should have been lookking for select.
Michael
--
To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to
jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw
If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Other related posts:
