You must be part inventor- because, if memory serves, many of the greatest inventions have also been discovered through accident or mistakes (or dropping something on the Bunsen burner) as well. You may be mis-directing your native giftedness! :)
Cher -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Victor Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:30 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] NVDA & JAWS Conflicts Hi Cher, Believe me, it was quite by accident. Back when I was first a novice user of Jaws, I was still trying to get the hang of it, and decided that should I lose speech for any reason, I should create a shortcut keystroke to launch it, just in case, and so when to use the alt+enter keystroke to bring up the properties. Either, because I hadn't had my coffee then, or my brain was just fast asleep after my body had woken up, I hit the enter key by itself, and got mystified when the Jaws menu popped up instead of the properties dialog box. I couldn't remember what I had done, so I just left it alone at that time, and attributed it to some fluke bug on my system. A few weeks later, I decided to change the keystroke for launching Jaws, and had to go into the properties dialog box, and again, I mistakenly hit just the enter key, and again it brought up the Jaws menu. This time, in contravention to my errant keystroke mistake, my brain was awake enough to log what I had pressed to get the Jaws menu, and I realized that I had just hit the enter key on the Jaws menu. Looking back, I find that a great deal of my experiences with Jaws have been one hit wonders, so to speak, meaning I just happen upon the various keystrokes or experiences by sheer luck, and then remember them after doing them several times. A great example of this is my experience with the GoldWave batch conversion utility, and how I discovered that. I was converting a file from WMA format to MP3, when I decided to add an effect to the file that I hadn't done with the other files I had converted. Keep in mind that up until now, I was simply opening the files I wanted to convert, one by one, and converting them this way, leaving me little time to do anything else. So, when I went into the menus to look for the effect I wanted to access and add, I ended up pressing alt+F and went to the file menu. I didn't realize until I had gone through the majority of the file menu, that I was in the wrong menu, but not until after I noticed the word batch in the file menu. Well, I just had to go into that, and was surprised when I found out that I could convert multiple files at once, while leaving me free to do other things on the computer. Even more surprised was I to learn that I could add effects and the like to the files I wanted to convert. So, as you can see, a great deal of my learning is done by accident, and while those accidents have had a few minor bad experiences, the majority of them were good experiences. I can only wish my experiences on others. The good ones, not the bad ones. LOL. Victor Co-moderator Blind Movie Buffs List Guidedogs List 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/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to jaws-users-list-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: jaws-users-list-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team jaws-users-list-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: blind-computing-j...@jaws-users.com 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/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to jaws-users-list-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: jaws-users-list-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team jaws-users-list-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: blind-computing-j...@jaws-users.com
