RE: find command with IE
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:42:46 -0600 (CST)
Sorry. I was speaking specifically about Internet Explorer here, not about
other applications like word processors and editors. I should have made
that clear. What I meant was that in Internet Explorer, when browsing a
Web page, a sighted person doesn't use a find command in the same way that
we do.
Bruce
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, jim grimsby wrote:
> Hi, this is not true see the notepad find command in windows. In most =
> cases
> the sighted person or any other user would use the find command while
> editing or reading text. Internet explorer uses a verchual find in =
> order to
> simulate a cursor so the ie find built in only searches the web page =
> does
> not place a cursor any where because in a standard web page there is no
> cursor on the screen there is a mouse pointer that the sighted user =
> moves on
> the screen.=20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =
> Behalf
> Of Bruce Toews
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:15 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: find command with IE
>
>
> It might help in this discussion to realize that a sighted person =
> doesn't,=20
> like a blind person, use a find command to place a cursor on a specific=20
> word, so the find command as we use it would have little if any =
> relevance=20
> to a sighted person.
>
> Bruce
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> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Dave Speck wrote:
>
>> The JAWS Find on the web is used for a blind user to find specific=20
>> text on the screen, not the web page.
>>
>>
>> Remember, He is Risen!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 8:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: find command with IE
>>
>>
>>> Judith,
>>>
>>> that's different, email. It isn't the same environment as a Web=20
>>> page.
>>>
>>> Under what sorts of conditions do you find it necessary on a Web page =
>
>>> to
>> use
>>> Control Insert F? What advantage does that method confer?
>>>
>>> thank you,
>>> Daniel
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:58 PM
>>> Subject: Re: find command with IE
>>>
>>>
>>> Sometimes on the web I have to use Control, insert F. Also, when=20
>>> reading
>> an
>>> email and you want to find something on the page insert, control F is =
>
>>> the only way to go.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: find command with IE
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I know this myself, but the simple Control F has always served me=20
>>>> for finding anything on a Web page. What's the purpose of this
>> Jaws-specific
>>>> find command? thanks.
>>>> purpsoe alwyas ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ricque" <ricque@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:33 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: find command with IE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Jaws find command is:
>>>> control, insert, F
>>>> Ricque
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Arliedog" <ddlmh50@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:32 AM
>>>> Subject: find command with IE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Listers,
>>>> I am trying to help a friend learn to use JAWS. One command I am=20
>>>> unable
>>> to
>>>> find is how to find something on a web page. I am wanting to search =
>
>>>> for
>> a
>>>> word or phrase then have the cursor move to the first instance of=20
>>>> that
>>> word
>>>> or phrase.
>>>> Thanks
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