Re: Jaws 6 not focusing on Word 2003 thesaurus
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:15:55 -0800
Ah, so this is what you call the form the Word help function is in, too? A
"task pane?" I wonder what its advantages are for a sighted user, why it's
such a nice new development. Because for me, it's not. I can barely make
sense of the Word help function, either.
I really find this development hatefully obstructive. the previous design
of the Word thesaurus (I don't know what term properly describes that kind
of window or dialogue) was just perfect for me. I used it with skill when I
could still see it, and I continued to use it as skillfully with Jaws.
I wonder: Is it possible for me to retain Word 2003 but replace the new
thesaurus with the old one? Or must I just delete Word or the entire office
2003 suite and reinstall my old copy of Word 2000? That's what I'll do, if
I have to, to get rid of this thesaurus and get something I can work with.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws 6 not focusing on Word 2003 thesaurus
> The Task Pane was introduced in Word XP. the point being made was that
> is *like* the Task pane in functionality. that feature was introduced
> by Microsoft, and has made some things more cumbersome for us. (Which
> is why many choose to disable it.) Asking for JAWS functionality -
> some extra JAWS keystroke? - to be added, is how you could pose it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws 6 not focusing on Word 2003 thesaurus
>
>
> No, it isn't a task pane, whatever that is. It's the thesaurus dialogue
> box. I have explored it as best I could with he Jaws cursor, and that's
> what it is.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Jaws 6 not focusing on Word 2003 thesaurus
>
>
>> Hi,
>> I'd be that the dialog that you're referring to is that obnoxious task
>> pane.
>> To get rid of it, you can do a ctrl+f1, or, if that doesn't work, go
> to
>> View
>> and arrow down to Task Pane. If it's checked, press enter and it will
> go
>> away. Then, you'll need to look around in the Options multi-page
> dialog,
>> either in the General or View tabs. There's a checkbox in there
> somewhere
>> that tells the task pane to come up automatically. Unckeck it with a
>> spacebar if you see it, then click OK. Hope that helps.
>> Tom
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: Jaws 6 not focusing on Word 2003 thesaurus
>>
>>
>>> As I said below, it appears at the right side of the screen. An
>> interesting
>>> detail I noted visually is that I can't make it disappear simply by
>> pressing
>>> Escape, as could be done previously, or can still be done with the
> spell
>>> checker. I'm really hoping to unravel this. Thesaurus.com is simply
>>> nowhere in the same ballpark of functionality.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ann Byrne" <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:12 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Jaws 6 not focusing on Word 2003 thesaurus
>>>
>>>
>>> > Yes, it has happened to me too. Have you figured out where the
> dialog
>>> > is??? I would be very interested.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > At 02:02 AM 2/12/2005, you wrote:
>>> >>Subject line says it all. I just upgraded to Jaws 6, and at the
> same
>> time
>>> >>replaced my old Word 2000 with Word in Office 2003. With my old
> Jaws
>> 4.51
>>> >>and Word 2000, when I brought up the Thesaurus with Shift F7, Jaws
>> focused
>>> >>on the Thesaurus as precisely as it focused on the Word Spell
> Check.
>>> >>
>>> >>But now, in this new configuration, pressing Shift F7 on a word
> does
>>> >>indeed
>>> >>bring up a window or dialogue for the thesaurus on the right side
> of
>>> >>the
>>> >>screen (I have only some peripheral vision, so I can see that this
>> happens
>>> >>though I can't read the dialogue's contents for lack of central
>>> >>vision).
>>> >>But Jaws doesn't focus on the thesaurus at all. I've explored with
> the
>>> >>Jaws
>>> >>cursor just to get an idea of how the Thesaurus dialogue looks, and
> it
>>> >>seems
>>> >>to be a bit different in its particulars from previous versions.
> But
>> this
>>> >>is of no consequence one way or another if Jaws won't focus the
> virtual
>>> >>cursor as it should so I can use the function.
>>> >>
>>> >>Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is it a bug in Jaws 6?
> Any
>>> >>suggestions?
>>> >>
>>> >>Thanks,
>>> >>Daniel
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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