Hello Kelly,
I appreciate you responding to my post. I changed the text selection option
to use the select using on screen highlight. However, if I simply select
the text and use the application key, the context menu does not seem focused
on the selection and only a few of the accelerators are shown. If after
selecting the text I use CTRL+C to copy the selection to the clipboard then
the application key gains focus and all my accelerators are listed in the
context menu. This behavior doesn't change if I turn caret browsing in
Internet Explorer on or off. Pressing CTRL+C is easy enough to do, but it
seems odd that it makes a difference to what is showing in the context menu.
When the new tab opens focus is on the address bar and I have to press F6
twice to get into the page content. Even so, it is quite a nice feature. I
have added a dictionary accelerator, an acronym accelerator and a couple
others.
If you know why the focus stays on the address bar on the new tab and
doesn't move directly into the page, I will appreciate you letting me know.
Take care.
Brian Lee
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Ford" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] USING JAWS WITH IE 8 ACCELERATORS
Brian,
You shouldn't have to open new tabs to do all of this. One of the points
of
accelerators is to let you select text on a page, select the accelerator
and
take action.
So for example using JAWS in your translate example, I select some text
from
the VPC mode, press the application key, select all accelerators and then
the translate item. A new tab opens automatically navigated to the
translationn service and sends your selected text.
Note for this to work right with JAWS, you need the option for text
selection in the virtual PC mode to be set to select using onscreen
highlight.
Kelly
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Lee [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 5:00 PM
To: JAWSUsers
Subject: [JAWS-Users] USING JAWS WITH IE 8 ACCELERATORS
One of the nice additions to IE 8 is the use of accelerators. However, I
have not been able to find the accelerator button. Default accelerators
are
available when using the application key, and the accelerators can easily
be
used in new tabs, but there apparently is an accelerator button that can
be
used. If anyone knows how to find it, please let me know. I added an
accelerator and made it default, but it doesn't show in the list of all
accelerators when using the application key.
Here is a brief synopsis of how I am currently using accelerators:
There are two accelerators that I use quite often. One of them is a
translation tool and the other one is a "shop and save" accelerator from
Live Search. I will use the latter as an example.
1. Select words on a web page. This can be text on any web page or text
that a person types in an edit box.
2. While text is selected open a new tab using CTRL+T.
3. If focus stays on the address bar in the new tab, (which has happened
to
me) then use F6 until focus is moved into the content of the new tab. You
should hear that the page has so many links, and you might hear something
like "what to you want to do next."
4. You can then use JAWS key with F7 to list links. If you want to
translate the text then use T in the list of links until you hear
something
like "translate using Live Search. There are a couple links before the
one
you want that have to do with the translator. I have added the "shop and
save" add-on so I press the letter "F" to get to the "find products shop
and
save" link and press enter. A person can also easily use down arrow to
the
link without using the links list and press enter on the link. The
resultant page shows the results.
I typed "external hard drive" in the Google edit box, selected it and then
opened a new tab and used the "find products" accelerator. The resultant
page showed me a list of external hard drives from various manufacturers,
their description, a range of pricing, user reviews, etc.
I have also used the translator accelerator by selecting the text on a web
page, opening a new tab and then picking the "translate with Live Search"
choice. The default settings for translating from a particular language
to
another one are used. The language used for translating to was not the
one
I wanted, and I had some trouble getting the browser to remember my
settings. I was able to use the combo box on the translator's page to
pick
the language from and to that I wanted but the next time I translated
something the settings reverted to default settings. After I cleared
cookies
and chose the languages I wanted to use again, my settings were retained
in
subsequent text translations. Apparently, default settings can be changed
through "options" on the translator.live.com page but I didn't find where
to
change language settings for translation purposes.
If anyone wants to add accelerators you can do it through the "manage
add-ons" dialog. The choice is in the tools menu. In the dialog box use
down arrow in the group of radio buttons where you pick the type of add-on
until you get to accelerators. Use the tab key to the button for finding
more accelerators and press enter key. A web page will be loaded that
lets
you choose accelerators and add them to your browser.
Take care.
Brian Lee
[email protected]
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