Hi all, has anyone tried the demo of Magic? Magic is a screen magnifier produced by the same company as JAWS. As a result, Magic and JAWS can quite happily co-operate together. Just a suggestion, and hope this helps.
-- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: chrishallsworth7266 klango: chrishallsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS + ZoomText + Windows High Contrast >I used to have this sort of setup and to be honest once you know how to use > Jaws well enough you do not really need Zoomtext to navigate and read > stuff > on a PC. Hanging around and reading the posts on this list will help you > a > lot in the transition to fully replace Zoomtext with Jaws. There are also > key conflicts between the default Jaws and Zoomtext applications though > these can be modified in each application with a bit of effort. I only > ever > use Zoomtext now if a program is absolutely inaccessible and even then I > may not actually bother as I have got so used to not struggling to try and > see the screen. In this sense Jaws is a liberator from peering at the > screen. For example once you know all the navigation keys using Jaws on > the > Internet is much faster than using Zoomtext in my experience. Of course > Zoomtext will enhance the visibility of Graphics which Jaws will never do. > > I found Jaws and Zoomtext sporadically unstable and never really settle > down. Things are much simpler just with Jaws. If you are using High > Contrast > you need to make sure that where colours are black this is replaced by > something like dark blue . For some reason Jaws over many versions has not > worked well with the default high contrast settings. > > There is a Jaws or Windows key combination to get you almost anywhere you > want to be. I would suggest you think of an alternative key command when > you are tempted to use Zoomtext. If you cannot think of a way of doing > this with Jaws, post to the list and a way will probably be revealed to > you. > > If you want to use the mouse remember that the Jaws cursor moves the mouse > around on the screen using the arrow keys and will read any text under the > mouse cursor. Press num pad - to turn on the Jaws cursor and press insert > R > to toggle the bits of screen you want to restrict the mouse cursor to. > > Regards > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Monica Mercer > Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS + ZoomText + Windows High Contrast > > I'm getting inconsistent weird results when I try to use JAWS, ZoomText, > and > Windows High Contrast together. Sometimes JAWS will quite speaking and > other times ZT bounces all over the place. Other times it works fine. > I'm > using ZT version 9.14.0.20, JAWS version 9.0.2169, and O/S XP Pro. > > Monica > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
