Re: Tips for a JAWS-Friendly Desktop
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:49:49 -0700
Tran Ba,
Yes, that's a good practice. However for my purposes I just use a single
JAWS hotkey Ctrl Alt J and if I want to launch another, I use the desktop
shortcuts.
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: "tran Ba Thien" <lyvanngoc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 19:05
Subject: Re: Tips for a JAWS-Friendly Desktop
we have more options for making shortcuts on desktop.
Follow the examples of our friend, I would like to give you some options:
Jaws 10.0: alt+shift+j
Jaws 11.0 ctrl+shift+j
Jaws 12.0 ctrl+alt+j
Tran Ba Thien
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From: "Chris Jenkins" <saveup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 7:35 AM
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Tips for a JAWS-Friendly Desktop
> Hello Dave.
>
> Thank you for providing this information. It will come in very handy.
> However one thing I would like to remind everyone of when needing to start
> Jaws for Windows is the fact you can open the run dialog box, type
> "jaws11"
> without the quotes of course and substitute the number that you want to
> start. This comes in very handy when you work with two versions of Jaws
> for
> whatever reason.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Farfar Carlson
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:05 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Tips for a JAWS-Friendly Desktop
>
> Tips for consistent and reliable re-launch of JAWS
>
> After my last message I thought I'd give some tips that have helped me a
> lot
>
> in the past when needing to close JAWS and re-launch -- and I do this just
> about every day.
>
> This speaks to having your desktop organized in a way that minimizes
> ambiguity when you're trying to launch JAWS when no speech is running. And
> yes I know we have Narrator, but it's so much faster just to know the
> keystrokes than launching Narrator, navigating, launching, and then
> shutting
>
> down Narrator again. So here's how I have my desktop arranged.
>
> 1. I always cut any desktop shortcuts from the "all users\desktop" folder
> and paste into the "<UserName>\desktop" folder under "Documents and
> Settings". N.B. that I'm using XP parlance here.
>
> Rationale is that a lot of applications including JAWS get installed with
> the shortcut in the "all users" desktop folder, and frankly I don't know
> why. However the result is that even if you sort your desktop shortcuts by
> name, you'll notice a few shortcuts starting at the top left that are
> grouped and sorted all by themselves. Some shortcuts we can't do anything
> with -- e.g. My Computer, My Documents, My Network Neighborhood, Recycle
> Bin. We can turn them off, but we can't group them with all the rest.
> However newly-installed applications similar to JAWS often also install
> their shortcut up there, and are not sorted with all the others. So that's
> why I cut/paste any that I can from "all users\desktop" to
> "<UserName>\desktop" so that they are arranged with the majority of my
> shortcuts.
>
> 2. Make sure that one, and only one shortcut starts with the letter "J".
> Which is of course JAWS. And more importantly the current version of JAWS
> that you use all the time. If you have multiple versions of JAWS on your
> desktop then I advise you give them a different first character in the
> shortcut label. In my case, JAWS 9.0 is labeled 9JAWS and JAWS 11.0 is
> labeled 11JAWS. The only shortcut on my desktop right now that starts with
> the letter "J" is Jaws 12.0.
>
> Rationale is that when you have no speech, and you're on the desktop
> (Windows+M to get there) the only shortcut that will be selected when you
> press the letter "J" is the version of JAWS you want to launch. Then
> pressing Enter will launch exactly what you intended.
>
> 3. Now arrange your shortcuts. The next time you're on your desktop, make
> sure none of the shortcuts are selected. Press Ctrl Spacebar until you
> hear
> "not selected". Then press the Applications key (or Shift F10) and in the
> context menu, arrow right on the "arrange icons by" submenu, and press
> Enter
>
> on Name. This will sort all your shortcuts alphabetically by their labels
> (Except for those aforementioned special shortcuts that stick in the
> upper-left corner).
>
> 4. Check all your JAWS shortcut properties and make sure that the one you
> always want to launch by default has a hotkey Ctrl Alt J. Make sure that
> no
> other desktop shortcuts have that hotkey. Assign other hotkeys if you
> wish,
> but have one and only one with Ctrl Alt J. A nice program to list all your
> hotkeys is Hotkey Detective, which I believe is still found on the jfwlite
> web page, under programs.
>
> 5. Finally create a "Kill JAWS" desktop shortcut. To do this, locate the
> file "jfwkill.exe" somewhere in your folders under Program Files. Others
> on
> this list have given instructions in the past on how to set up this
> shortcut, so I'll defer to them. However when you've created it, make sure
> it's the only shortcut on your desktop starting with the letter "K". I
> won't
>
> repeat myself as to why, just go back and read the rationale above. Kill
> JAWS is very handy to have when you've lost speech, and you can't seem to
> launch a darn thing. And even Narrator doesn't tell you much. Happens to
> me
> on every even-numbered day in any month with an odd number of days. The
> first solution I try in these cases is to Kill JAWS. I don't bother with a
> hotkey for this one, since I'm never confident that a hotkey will work
> when
> things are all jammed up. However I've found that Windows+M will give me
> my
> desktop and pressing K and then Enter will kill the recalcitrant JAWS so I
> can resume working.
>
> 6. If all else fails when things are totally buggerd, then I reach for the
> power button and hold it down for 5 seconds, take a sip of tea, and then
> turn on the computer again.
>
> Dave
> Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
>
>
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