Re: alt+shift
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:36:26 -0700
got it. Well put. Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: alt+shift
JAWS passes the keystroke along to Windows, like other JAWS/screen
reader commands. Since this changes the input language, JAWS is told to
either announce the change or state that no changes were made, depending
if you have more than one keyboard language installed. Hope that helps.
On Tue, 1 May 2007 11:00:35 -0700, "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> It is? Well, Chris, in what sense has it been "enhanced?" Do you actually
> mean kidnapped? What is it supposed to do as a purely Windows command? Do
> you happen to know?
> Chirs,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:42 AM
> Subject: Re: alt+shift
>
>
> This is a Windows command that has been enhanced by JAWS hence the
> announcement. Hope that helps.
> On Tue, 1 May 2007 11:36:57 -0600, "Bobcat" <bobcat11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> said:
> > Is this a Jaws command or a Windows command? Alt plus shift toggles a
> > setting which makes Jaws say alternatively, English Canada then English
> > United states.
> >
> > Remember some people were talking about Jaws starting to announce
> > English
> > United States? I accidentally hit alt+shift one day and heard that
> > announcement. I hit it again and it said English Canada.
> >
> > I checked to be sure the language bar is off. I even went so far as to
> > also
> > turn it of in Jaws options, basic settings, windows system parameters.
> >
> > I just alt tabbed from the Jaws window back to this OE window and Jaws
> > said
> > English Canada. I had toggled the setting to Canada and Jaws was
> > telling
> > me
> > that what it is set to for this window or application. It only makes
> > the
> > announcement if the language is different from the previous window.
> >
> > Bobcat
> >
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