What an excellent post ray! No matter how advance we've become it all stands on our understanding of the basics. Keep them coming buddy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Boyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:32 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: what is the system tray
> > HiMaralyn > 07 Introduction to Windows > > This learning module is entitled, "An Introduction to Windows." This lesson > introduces you to the primary controls of the Windows Desktop and how to > navigate > between and within these controls. We will also discuss how to modify the > Windows Desktop for optimal use with JAWS for Windows. > > You can think of the Desktop as the parent window to all other windows. > Each of the components of the Windows Desktop and the various programs or > applications > that you want to run on your computer, such as your word processor, e-mail > package, or Internet browser can all be considered descendant windows of the > Windows Desktop. As we move on through this tutorial, you'll get a good > idea of how the hierarchy of Windows works. Currently, my focus is on the > Windows > Desktop, but there is nothing selected. If your focus is not on the Windows > Desktop, please press LEFT WINDOWS+M. > > Okay, now that we're at a common starting point. I'm going to press the TAB > key one time. > > TAB. Start button. To open, press ENTER. > > We hear JAWS speak, "Start button." The Start button is what's activated > when you press the Windows logo key. When you press spacebar on the start > button > or when you activate the Windows logo key, it opens a menu called the Start > menu. The Start menu is where you go to launch all your Windows programs. > We'll come back to the start menu later. There are three other parts of the > desktop that I'd like to show you. > > To move to the next item, simply press the TAB key. > > Most of you will probably land on the Task bar. However, some of you may > hear something like the following: > > TAB. Tool bar. Launch Internet Explorer browser button. A series of > graphical buttons. Menus usually contain the same options. > > This is the Quick Launch Toolbar and it can be turned on or off by the end > user. By default in Windows '98, the Tool bar is turned on. By default in > Windows > XP, it is turned off. > If you landed on the Quick Launch Toolbar, press TAB one more time and you > will land on the task bar. > > TAB. Task bar. To move through items, press LEFT or RIGHT ARROW. > > The task bar is where we can go to find out what programs are currently open > on our computer. To navigate the Task bar, simply press the LEFT and RIGHT > ARROW keys. I'm going to press the LEFT ARROW now. > > JAWS TAB. > > I hear, "JAWS tab," and now I'll press the RIGHT ARROW. > > JAWS TAB. > > From this, we know JAWS is currently the only program running on my > computer. If you heard something else, it means that you currently have > more than one > program running on your computer. For the moment though, we won't worry > about that. I'm going to press the TAB key again. > > TAB. System tray. JAWS speaks the first icon. Use your left and right arrows > to move through all the items in your system tray. Show how you wrap back to > the beginning. Mention that you can move to the system tray in this manner, > but it is much more efficient to use INSERT+F11. > Press TAB again. > TAB. Desktop. List view... > > Now we land with our focus on the Desktop. The Desktop list view contains > icons, or shortcuts, that allow you to launch programs or access folders and > files. As a Windows user, you can specify what shortcuts you want to be > placed on your Desktop. Of course, we can easily remove these shortcuts > from > the Desktop, as well. > > When we first tabbed to the Desktop list view, we heard JAWS speak, > "Desktop. List view. > > So, moving to our Desktop gave us several important pieces of information. > First, it told us that we had just tabbed to the control called the Desktop > list view. Next we were told that the item we landed on in this list was > selected or not selected, and it's name. We also learned that there were a > total > of ## items in this list on my computer, and that the focus is on the ## > item in the list. Finally, JAWS' Tutor Mode instructed us how we could move > in > this environment. > > If the item that we're over isn't currently selected, any action we attempt > to take regarding this item wouldn't work. Before we can take an action in > a list view such as this, the computer wants to know which item we want to > change. We could select the item that we're over by pressing the SPACEBAR, > or by moving to another item with our ARROW keys as Tutor Mode instructed > us. You can unselect an item on the desktop by pressing CTRL+SPACEBAR. > > Select the icon if needed. > > My Computer. Space > > As you heard, My Computer, the first item in my list, is now selected. I > can move around within the Desktop list view by using my UP, DOWN, LEFT, and > RIGHT > ARROW keys. Throughout these lessons, we're going to encounter some list > views that are arranged vertically, in which you only need to use the UP and > DOWN ARROW keys to navigate. However, the Desktop list view is arranged in > rows and columns, and since the Desktop list view is definable by the user, > the number of times that you need to press the LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN > ARROW keys is going to vary from computer to computer, depending on how many > items > your Desktop contains. > > I'm going to press the TAB key once again. > > TAB. Start button. To open, press ENTER. > > All right, we've cycled back around to our Start button. Just to recap, by > default in Windows XP, there are five primary components to our Windows > Desktop > and less if you're working in Windows NT or Windows '95 operating systems. > First, there is the Start button, which when activated opens a Start menu > that > allows us to launch applications. The Start menu often contains items with > sub-menus that allow you go to other sets of menus for that particular item. > You can also access various dialogs, such as the Run dialog from the Start > menu. > > Second, there is the Quick Launch toolbar, which will likely be turned off > in Windows XP. > > Third, there's the Task bar, where we can check to find out how many > applications are open at any given time. Just to the right of the Task bar > is the System > Tray. We'll be talking about this later on. And when you press TAB again you > move from the Task bar to the Desktop listview, which contains the icons > that > are usually shortcuts to launch your programs and are definable by the user. > You can see that we have at least two ways of launching any given > application, > either from within the Start menu, or from the Windows Desktop. We'll be > using the Start menu to launch most applications because it is usually a > more > direct and logical way of doing so. However, as you become more > experienced, you will most likely use hotkey combinations that you will > assign to Desktop > icons for the programs you use most of the time. This is faster than > navigating the Start menu. > > To open the Start menu initially, you can place your focus on the Start > button and then press the ENTER key. This isn't entirely necessary, as > there are > a couple of other ways to go about opening the Start menu. The first way is > by using what's known as the Windows logo key. There are two windows logo > keys on most 104 key Windows keyboards. Going out from the spacebar, on the > bottom row, they are the second key on either side. You can press either > Windows logo key from wherever you are, whether you're in an application, or > on the Windows Desktop. For example, I'm going to tab over to my Desktop > list view. > > TAB. Toolbar Launch Internet Explorer Browser button. A series of graphical > buttons menus usually contain the same options. > TAB. Task bar. To move through items, press LEFT or RIGHT ARROW. > TAB. System tray. > TAB. Desktop list view. > And now I'll press the Windows logo key. > > Left windows. Start menu. New Office Document. To navigate, press UP or > DOWN ARROW. N > > Now, let's go ahead and open an application. Almost every computer has a > program called Notepad. Notepad is located within the Programs sub-menu > under > Accessories. You can down arrow until you hear the word "programs submenu" > or you can press the letter "P" to move directly to it and open the > corresponding > submenu, provided that there is nothing else in your start menu that begins > with the letter P. Now remember, as with your Desktop list view, you can > add > and remove Start menu items. So when you activated your Start menu, you may > not have heard the same things on your Start menu as are on the computer I'm > using. So I'm going to move to and open my Programs submenu now by > pressing the letter "P". > > P. Accessories submenu, A. > > JAWS speaks, "Accessories submenu, A." JAWS is announcing the first item > within the Program submenu, which in this case, is Accessories. Accessories > is > a submenu of the Programs menu. Because the Start menu allows us to use > first-letter navigation, pressing P automatically opened our Programs > submenu. > However, if you have more than one item in your Start menu beginning with > the letter P, this would not have been the case. In this event, you would > have > to press the first letter of the menu item that you'd like to activate until > you land on the correct item that starts with that letter. Then you would > have to press the ENTER key to open that item. I'm going to press ENTER > here to open our Accessories submenu, because that's where the Notepad > program > is located. > > ENTER. Communications submenu, C. > > Because I know that Notepad on my computer is the only item located within > the Accessories submenu beginning with the letter N, I'm going to press the > letter > N now and Notepad will be launched. > > N. Leaving Menus. Start button, to open press ENTER. Untitled dash > Notepad edit. Type in text. > > One of the last things that we heard JAWS speak was untitled dash Notepad. > For those of you who may not be aware, Notepad is nothing more than a basic > text-editing program. So now I have two applications open, JAWS and > Notepad. I can move between these two open applications with a keystroke > ALT, plus > the TAB key. I'll go ahead and do this now. > > ALT TAB JAWS. > > This announcement let's me know that JAWS currently has the focus. I'll > press ALT plus TAB again. > > ALT TAB. Untitled dash Notepad edit. Type in text. > > Now we're back to the Notepad main application window. Each time you press > ALT plus TAB and release that key combination, you're going to toggle back > and > forth between the last two applications that you opened. Remember, you can > have several applications open at any given time. However, if you hold DOWN > the ALT key as you press the TAB key, and keep that ALT key held DOWN, you > will cycle between all currently open applications. While doing this, be > sure > to listen to what JAWS speaks, as if you press ALT+TAB and don't listen to > everything spoken, you may skip over a program you want to hear. Also, > remember > to hold down the ALT key and keep it down while trying this, and only press > the TAB key to move from one item to another. If you keep both keys pressed > together, the computer will cycle through the list of running applications > too fast for you to hear anything. So, in summary, you want to hold down > the > ALT key continuously, and press the TAB key one Tab at a time, until you > hear the program you want to move to. Then release both keys and that > program > will come into the foreground, or as they say in Windows terminology, it > will receive the focus. > > My focus is currently on Notepad, but I'd like to go directly back to my > Windows Task Bar. To do this, I'll use the WINDOWS key plus the TAB key. > > Press windows+tab. Task Bar. To move through items, press LEFT or RIGHT > ARROW. > > Excellent. Now we can tell whether Notepad is listed as a running program > on the Task Bar. Press your LEFT ARROW key. > > JAWS says: JAWS TAB. > > There's JAWS, right where it was before. Press RIGHT ARROW again. > > JAWS says: untitled dash notepad. TAB. > > Ok, so we hear that Notepad is the last item that appears on our Task bar, > moving from left to right. Now remember, the Notepad application is already > opened, we're just simply moving along the taskbar to hear what programs are > currently running on the computer. > > Another technique that I'd like to show you for accessing open applications > from the Task bar is by using the JAWS Window list dialog. This is a > feature > built into JAWS that when activated, allows you not only to bring up a list > of open applications, but also lets you hear the state of any of those > applications, > whether they are minimized, maximized, or restored. I'm going to go ahead > and bring up the JAWS Window list dialog by pressing the key combination of > INSERT+F10. > > JAWS says: window list dialog, running applications, List box, not selected > desktop. To move to an item, press the arrow keys. Desktop. > > We end up in a vertical list and we heard JAWS speak, "Desktop." I'm going > to press DOWN ARROW to listen to the other items in this list. > > JAWS restored. > Untitled dash Notepad restored. > > So those are the only two applications currently open on my computer. You > may have a different number open on your computer. As we ARROW DOWN through > the list of currently open applications, we not only hear the name of the > application, but we hear what window state that application happens to be in > at the time. > > As I mentioned just a moment ago, a window can be in one of three states. > If minimized, the application appears at the bottom of the screen on the > taskbar > as an icon. If maximized, the program window fills your entire computer > screen and this is the best way to use most applications with JAWS. If > restored, > the program is somewhere between being minimized and maximized and this can > be changed by the user. Since you may not know the exact size of a program > window when it is in the restored state, I usually use the example that it > could be the size of a 3 by 5 index card. To be able to have more > information > on the screen, you want your programs to be in the maximized state, where > they fill the entire screen. > > You can feel free to TAB through the other controls in this dialog box, but > just to give you an idea of what else there is here besides our list box, I'm > going to go ahead and press the JAWS keystroke to read the current window. > That keystroke is INSERT+B. This keystroke is a useful way of rereading a > window for information you may have missed, or, as we're doing here, to get > some idea of how an unfamiliar dialog is laid out. I'll go ahead and press > INSERT+B. > > JAWS speaks. > > Another JAWS command I'd like to show you is how to find out what the > default button is in a dialog box. First though, what do I mean when I > mention, "default > button?" In a prior lesson, we learned about different dialog box controls > that can be used. For example, list boxes, check boxes, and buttons. As it > turns out, every dialog box you encounter will have almost always have one > default button, which is the button that gets chosen if you press ENTER over > any non-button control in that dialog. So, if JAWS reports the okay button > is the default button for a certain dialog box, this means that you don't > actually > have to tab over to that button and then press ENTER when you get there. > Instead, you can simply press the ENTER key from where you are and that > button > will be activated. The keystroke to check the default button is INSERT+E, > as in echo. I'll press INSERT+E now. > > JAWS says: default button is switch to. > > In this dialog box, the default button is "switch to." If I press ENTER > while I'm on the item currently selected, Notepad, I would activate that > "switch > to" button. I'll press ENTER now. > > ENTER. Untitled dash notepad edit. Type in text. > > We're not going to use Notepad at this time, so I'm going to exit this > program now. In Windows, any program can be closed by using the command > ALT+ F4. > I'll press ALT+F4 now. > > JAWS says: alt f4 JAWS. > > When we closed Notepad the focus returned to the JAWS program and we heard > JAWS read the title bar JAWS. > > The next thing that I'd like to show you is how to read items within the > system tray. What is the system tray? The system tray is part of the task > bar, > and when you install programs on your computer, some of these programs place > icons in the system tray. The system tray is not accessible from the > keyboard > with Windows 9X, but it is in TAB order with Windows Millennium, Windows > 2000, and Windows XP. The icons in the system tray are most often used by > mouse > users, who would use the mouse pointer to point and click on them to perform > various tasks, depending on the application running in the system tray. It > also depends on whether a right mouse button or left mouse button is used, > and whether they single or double-click that icon. JAWS has the ability to > examine the system tray and place those icons in a simple list view. We'll > look at this list view next by pressing INSERT + F11. I'll press INSERT+F11 > now. > > JAWS says: select a system tray icon dialog. List box. > > This list of items is going to depend on what programs have been installed > on your computer. So here, you'll just need to understand the concept we're > presenting. In my system tray is an icon for our anti virus software. If I > use the JAWS system tray list to right click on it, I get a context menu. If > I use the JAWS system tray list to left single-click on it, nothing happens. > However, if I use the JAWS system tray dialog box to left double-click on > it, I get a dialog box asking if I want to go out on the internet and update > my anti virus files. So again, the system tray on your computer will have > different icons in it, each with it's own purpose. > > Earlier in this lesson, I mentioned that windows 98 had an additional > component added to the windows desktop. That extra component is known as > the quick > launch toolbar. This toolbar contains icons that a sighted user could > quickly glance at, move their mouse pointer over, and click to activate > them. However, > that toolbar isn't the most efficient thing to use with a screen reader, so > I'm going to show you how to turn that on and off. > I usually remove it from TAB order on the desktop if it is there. > > > Windows 98 users follow these instructions (Windows XP follows this > section): > The quick launch option can either be checked or unchecked, and it is found > in the start menu. Press your windows key to open the start menu. Arrow down > until you come to Settings and press right arrow to open this submenu. Press > the down arrow until you hear taskbar and start menu, then press ENTER. > > A dialog box opens. This is a multilevel dialog box, and you should land on > the taskbar page. If you land on the start menu page, just press control > plus > tab to move to the taskbar page. > > Once on the taskbar page, press the tab key until you come to the checkbox > called show quick launch. > > There it is. The spacebar is used to check or uncheck a checkbox. If yours > is not checked, press the spacebar to check it, then press the enter key to > close this dialog box. > > > Press windows key plus m to minimize all applications and put your focus on > the desktop. Then press the TAB key to move to the quick launch toolbar. > Once > there, show how you can navigate across the icons by pressing left and right > arrow keys. Then press TAB several times until we land back on the desktop. > > Now, let's turn it off. Press your windows key to open the start menu. Arrow > down until you come to Settings and press right arrow to open this submenu. > Press the down arrow until you hear taskbar and start menu, then press > ENTER. > > The taskbar and start menu properties dialog box opens again. Again, this is > a multilevel dialog box, and you should land on the taskbar page. If you > land > on the start menu page, just press control plus tab to move to the taskbar > page. > > Once on the taskbar page, press the tab key until you come to the checkbox > called show quick launch. > > There it is. Press the spacebar to uncheck it, then press the enter key to > close this dialog box. > > Press windows key plus m to minimize all applications and put your focus on > the desktop. Then press the TAB key to verify this is now off as we cycle > one > more time through the Windows desktop. I'll press TAB several times until > we land back on the desktop, and you'll hear that the quick launch toolbar > is > now gone. > > This has been an overview of the main windows screen and it's various parts. > Let's move on to the next lesson now. > > > > 17 > 07 Introduction to Windows > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marilyn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:12 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] what is the system tray > > > > > > Hi, all. What is the system tray for? How do things get into it? What's > > the point? Thanks. Marilyn > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.1/640 - Release Date: 1/19/2007 > > 4:46 PM > > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.1/640 - Release Date: 1/19/2007 4:46 PM > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ Address to contact the management team: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. 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