Gee another person wanting to change what windows does. I thought Freedom
Scientific doing that was bad enough. I guess that maybe I just do not
understand the logic in changing how windows works any more than necessary.
For one thing if you use more than one type of screen reader or even
different versions of the same one you would need to learn to do things in a
larger variety of ways. If the windows program were left alone and allowed
to run as it was written for then even those switching screen readers would
not be so confused.
Further when the windows program is changed by a program like JAWS when a
blind person asks a sighted person for assistance there might be a few
problems because what windows is suppose to do and what JAWS has it do might
not be the same thing.
For example the delete key in the six pack of keys was not meant to delete
anything once it has been opened. It is to delete from the outside of a file
or email only. The delete for inside an email is control d. Did Freedom
Scientific decide blind people were to stupid to do control d or were some
blind people just too eager to have a quicker easier way to delete something
because that is what blind people need.
--- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Durber" <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Ho to change the use of the <CTRL+A> Windows key combination.
I have also sent an e-mail to Microsoft posing the same question.
So, I guess we will have to wait to see if they respond to my e-mail.
sincerely:
Dave durber
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 18:31:42 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
What I was trying to say was that since it's a Windows convention rather than being an actual Windows keystroke, the control+a is defined as such by the actual program, not by Windows itself. So you couldn't change it universally within Windows, you'd have to change it from within the individual program, assuming the program would let you do it.
Bruce
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Dave Durber wrote:
I know what it does and what it is! But thank you for the explanation anyway!
I was asking if anyone knew whether it was possible to change a Windows keystroke or not.
sincerely:
Dave Durber
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:22:34 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
It's a Windows keystroke, not a JAWS one, so is probably defined from
program to program. In fact it would be better to say that it's a Windows
convention, not an actual Windows keystroke, because the keystroke is used
in a program when it adopts the convention, it's not a keystroke that's
actually built into Windows.
Bruce
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Dave Durber wrote:
Does anyone on this list know how to change <CTRL+a> which is the windows combination for selecting the whole document, to <ALT+SHIFT+A>, for example.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
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