To the person saying the insert+6 to open settings center didn't work in
tks, this is because the keyboard hook is working properly on that
particular computer, so jaws is prevented from seeing the keystroke.
That said, sleeping jaws for tks in that case is not necessary anyway.
Cheers, Sent with thunderbird 17.0.8 portable
On 7/26/2014 3:16 PM, valiant8086 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:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] 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!
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