Hello Doug, I've not yet dabbled with the events necessary for capturing all new text, so I can't comment on your first point.
However, you can achieve skipping in a Read-To-End with the Left and Right Arrow keys for previous and next line respectively. I appreciate this barely scratches the surface of your query, particularly as these keys are only relevant while a Read-To-End is in progress, but they are nonetheless useful when such is true. Hope this helps. Darren On 09/09/2008, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've thrown this challenge at various screen readers over many years, > and I guess it's time to throw it at Window-Eyes. :) > > I do a lot in console windows--editing, mail and some web browsing > using Cygwin programs, etc. There are two areas where this proves > very iffy in Windows, and I wonder if Window-Eyes, with or without > custom scripting, can address these: > > 1. When a bunch of text rapidly scrolls by, Windows screen readers > often miss chunks of it and/or repeat other chunks more than once. I > see new scroll-related events in Beta3 but haven't played with them > yet. The goal here would be to have the screen reader be sure not to > miss any text (unless, of course, I tell it to shut up). > > 2. Some screen readers provide a means of skimming by line while text > is appearing or, as often of interest to me, after a screen has > appeared but while the screen reader is still reading it. JAWS skips > to the start of the next line on a press of a Shift key. The old PC > Vert system, from ancient DOS days, did this with Ctrl+K if I remember > correctly. I'm wondering if Window-Eyes currently provides, or can be > made to provide, this functionality somehow. > > > -- > Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer > SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, > it was done." --Helen Keller >
