I use to highlight web content in this way in order to bring the attention of my sighted friend to what I am reading. This is the command to select a line from the curser. I am using IE 8. With regards Jaison Bellarmine-----Original message----- From: Umesha Economics Sent: 20/04/2012, 12:58 pm To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] (no subject)
dear akhilesh, as per my knowledge, contents of web pages cannot be highlighted in that way in web browsers. which browser you are referring? Umesha ----- Original Message ----- From: "akhilesh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 19 April, 2012 7:56 AM Subject: Re: [AI] (no subject) > Hi Umesha, > Just go to the beginning of the sentence which you wana highlight, > press shift and downarrow and entire line will be highlighted. use > other standerd jaws reading keystrokes such as for highlighting the > word, control plus shift plus rightarrow and it'll work. needless to > say that it is a temproary solution just to guide your sighted fokes > to find the area of a webpage which you are refering. > > Thanks, > --- > Akhilesh Kumar Dahiya, > Advocate. > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +91 9210616426 > New Delhi > > On 4/18/12, Umesha Economics <[email protected]> wrote: >> dear Akhilesh, >> how do you highlight a sentence in a web page? >> >> Umesha >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "akhilesh" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, 18 April, 2012 3:22 PM >> Subject: Re: [AI] (no subject) >> >> >>> Dear amar, >>> I don't know about projecting the ppt. but yeah. you can certainly >>> highlight the word or the sentence or the group of sentences which you >>> wanna show to your sighted friends by just selecting the text through >>> standerd jaws reading commands. >>> >>> I usually apply this trick when I have to show particular sentence on >>> webpage or word. >>> Just play around as usual and you will master it. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Akhilesh Kumar Dahiya, >>> Advocate. >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Mobile: +91 9210616426 >>> New Delhi >>> >>> On 4/17/12, Amar Jain <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> Yes, I know the difference of Jaws's way to treat html and pdf. >>>> Generally we have to give PPT presentations, where I have no problems. >>>> But if I have to show PDF or html, then the problem comes. >>>> One of the ways suggested by someone was to take the image of the pdf >>>> / html, and put it into ppt slide. (may be helpful when you don't have >>>> to show it instantly so that one can take visual help). >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Message: 3 >>>> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:24:29 +0530 >>>> From: "Umesha Economics" <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Giving Presentations: Checking visibility of text on >>>> screen and scroling accordingly? >>>> Message-ID: <0497C8E3A7034E78830E280F26013534@student> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >>>> reply-type=original >>>> >>>> can you please tell which program you are referring to? because, most >>>> of >>>> the >>>> times, since jaws uses off-screen model to get its textual content, >>>> many >>>> times what jaws speaks is visible on the screen. if any part of the >>>> screen >>>> is not visible, jaws normally would not read that portion. the >>>> exceptions >>>> are reading html or PDF. here jaws does not get the content from the >>>> screen. >>>> instead it takes it from the original html code or similar portions of >>>> the >>>> files. >>>> >>>> Umesha >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Amar Jain" <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Monday, 16 April, 2012 2:01 AM >>>> Subject: [AI] Giving Presentations: Checking visibility of text on >>>> screen >>>> and scroling accordingly? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Dear Accessindians, >>>>> >>>>> I am refering to a situation where the screen reader is able to read >>>>> the content of screen, though not necessarily the content of screen is >>>>> visible to a sighted person unless we scrole down or up according to >>>>> the place of the text in the document. >>>>> >>>>> It is also a fact that visibility of the content on any screen depends >>>>> on the size of the screen. >>>>> >>>>> It becomes important when giving any presentation, or when showing >>>>> anything (web page) or (pdf) on screen to sighted person, to make sure >>>>> that the particular text / column you are talking about is in focus on >>>>> screen and is available for them to view. >>>>> >>>>> Is there any feature in Jaws to see whether the text which you are >>>>> talking about is visible on screen currently or not, and whether you >>>>> need to scrole accordingly or not? >>>>> >>>>> Or, can we define the size of screen in Jaws so that when in a >>>>> document the matter reaches that defined size, Jaws alerts you to >>>>> scrole down? >>>>> >>>>> Using jaws curser and any feature associated with it is not a >>>>> comfortable >>>>> idea. >>>>> Can anybody suggest any workaround if the feature doesn't exist? >>>>> >>>>> Looking forward for healthy discussion. >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Amar Jain. >>>>> Website: www.amarjain.com >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Amar Jain. >>>> Website: www.amarjain.com >>>> >>>> >>>> Search for old postings at: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>>> [email protected] >>>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>>> >>>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>>> please >>>> visit the list home page at >>>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> Search for old postings at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>> [email protected] >>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>> please visit the list home page at >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>> >> >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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