RE: press control+down arrow to skip the disclaimer part. subject line: alt+tab.
- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <NOosthuizen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:42:07 +0200
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Which version do you have?
I have Version 8.0.423
I check with alt+delete which cursor is active and with my version I
only hear task switching if the jaws cursor is active.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: 21 May 2007 01:46 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: press control+down arrow to skip the disclaimer part.
subject line: alt+tab.
Hi Nicol,
that's very interesting, but I very seldom have the Jaws cursor turned
on
unless it's for some special navigational purpose. The reason Jaws 8
reports
"task switching" when you press Alt tab (or at least the first time you
press it as you circulate among your open applications this way) is
because
that's what you are doing, just as if you were sighted and clicking on
one
task bar icon after the other to go from program to program. I'm sure
they
meant it to be a helpful feature, although it seems to me pretty
extraneous
like some sort of beginner's level verbosity. I mean, if you're just
learning how to open doors in a house, this is the sort of thing that
would
report "opening door" every time you did it, although, pretty soon,
you'd
know perfectly well when you are opening a door, and not need to hear
that
confirmation any more. So it would be nice if it could just be turned
off,
like tutor messages.
But for me, the one eccentric thing it does is say this only the very
first
time during a day of using Jaws 8, only one time. After that, no matter
how
many times I cycle around from open application to open application with
Alt
tab, it never reports that I'm doing this, again. I just think it's one
of
those imperfect new bells and whistles sort of features that will
probably
need to be refined eventually so that it stops behaving oddly. As for
the
Jaws cursor, as I never have the Jaws cursor turned on when I'm
switching
from one application (task) to another, I have no idea how that affects
it.
Let me try:
Okay. Well, using Jaws cursor and pressing alt tab, my Jaws 8 says
nothing
at all except Alt Tab. In fact, it doesn't even report which application
I'm
switching to. Nothing. Just reports my keystroke. And if I turn PC
cursor
back on, as is normal for me, it just behaves like earlier versions,
reporting "alt tab" and saying which application I'm reentering. It
hasn't
even *said* task switching yet. Weird.
Oh, well..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <NOosthuizen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: press control+down arrow to skip the disclaimer part. subject
line:
alt+tab.
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HI
A while ago there was a big thread about using alt+tab. One question
that came out in this thread was:
Why does jaws say task switching if I press alt+tab.
I have explored with alt+tab and here is why jaws says task switching.
If your jaws cursor is active, jaws will say task switching each time
you press alt+tab. So if you don't like jaws saying task switching,
press numpad plus for pc cursor.
Task switching obviously means you are switching to another program, a
program is technically seen as a task in windows.--
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