You are right MR Vallient but as far as the question of TKS I am not able to sleep JAWS. Thanks Ishan
On 7/27/14, Danielle Antoine <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup thanks Valiant. Works like a charm. > Danielle > > On 7/26/14, valiant8086 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi. >> Ok I'm a pretty expert jaws user, I'd like to lay this out. >> To mute speech, press, depending on keyboard layout, caps lock space, >> or, if desktop layout insert+space. Once you heard the click noise, >> press s. This turns speech off. >> >> On my lenovo Yoga 2 pro tablet laptop thingy, that takes less than a >> second to accomplish. caps lock space, then s turns it off. pressing >> that again turns it on just as quickly as it was turned off. On slower >> computers it may take a couple of seconds for speech to restart when >> toggling it back on. This actually unloads the synthesizer, so if you >> use eloquence and someone crashes it, you can often use this to quickly >> recover, provided the crash didn't drag jaws down with it. >> >> Secondly, with later versions of jaws that use the settings center >> instead of the configuration manager, setting jaws to sleep for specific >> applications is ridiculously easy. >> >> Open the game and press insert+6 (same regardless of keyboard layout). >> Depending on whether jaws had a configuration file for this game already >> it may ask you what you'd like to call the new configuration file. If it >> does, just hit enter to accept what it suggested by default. Now you'll >> be in the settings center,, focused on an edit box. in that edit box, >> type "sleep" without the quotes. Now down arrow until you hear sleep >> mode disable. Press space till it says enable. If you really want too >> you can space again to make it unload the synthesizer as well, but this >> usually is not a good idea if you have a slower computer it will take a >> while to get speech back once focus leaves the game, plus, usually, the >> speech synthesizer itself doesn't do anything that would actually >> interfere with game play, that includes the fact that when jaws is >> sleeping, it's not sending stuff to the synthesizer to be spoken, so the >> synthesizer sits idle, which is as good as using no resources of your >> machine right? >> >> So to summarize, with our Traders of Known Space game, I can launch the >> game, and while sitting in the game press insert+6. It asks what I'd >> like to call the configuration, I press enter to accept what's already >> suggested. Then I type sleep, down arrow twice, press space once, tab to >> the ok button and hit enter. That's all. Takes less time to do it now >> that I know how to do it so well than it does to describe it. What's >> more, if I open Traders of Known Space but I need jaws to speak while in >> the game for some reason, I can repeat the exact same steps to bring >> jaws out of sleep mode for this application, save in that situation, I >> would never need to press enter at first to accept a suggested >> configuration file name, as if it's sleeping, it obviously has a >> configuration file. >> Cheers, Sent with thunderbird 17.0.8 portableOn 7/25/2014 4:54 PM, Nicol >> wrote: >>> Hi tom >>> Well, in jaws15 you press alt plus windows key plus s to mute the speech >>> but >>> I don't know if that will remove the keyboard hook while playing games. >>> I know for sure it mutes speech until you switch focus to another >>> application. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas >>> Ward >>> Sent: 25 July 2014 12:36 PM >>> To: Gamers Discussion list >>> Subject: [Audyssey] Screen Readers and Games was the Blind Swordsman >>> >>> Hi Dark, >>> >>> That's a good question, and I'm not sure I'm the right person to ask. >>> I rarely use Jaws any more myself. That said, I do know in the versions >>> of >>> Jaws I've used I can't just flick speech on and off the way I can with >>> NVDA >>> or the way you can with Supernova. At least, that has been my >>> experience. >>> there may be a way to do what you want to do, but I'm just not familiar >>> with >>> any current Jaws releases to give you an answer without downloading the >>> Jaws >>> demo, installing it, and playing around with it to find out if what you >>> are >>> asking is possible or not. In NVDA one can press insert+s until it >>> disables >>> speech or enables speech which is quick and easy. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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