Hi James; I don't know what program tool bar you are trying to get rid of but, read through the information below and see if anything in the info will help you. If nothing does let us know what program and program tool bar you are trying to get rid of and that could help with getting a more definitive answer. Information on using Tool Bar
Hello Mike, It sounds like you are asking for general information that explains what toolbars are and how to access them using JAWS. I will use Microsoft Word for examples, but the information below does not apply to Microsoft Word 2007. In addition to having a menu bar, many programs also have one or more toolbars that are generally found near the top of the program's window. The toolbars give people the ability to use a mouse to click on a function that they want to do instead of having to search through levels of menus or dialog boxes to perform the functions. The toolbars are usually positioned horizontally from left to right and quite often are positioned just under the menu bar. There are programs that have toolbars positioned vertically. A toolbar can have several small graphical pictures and might or might not be labeled with text labels. An example of a toolbar is the standard toolbar in Microsoft Word. A few of the choices on the standard toolbar are "New blank document", Open, save, print, "mail recipient", "spell checking" among others. Mouse users can move the mouse across the toolbar and click on the choice for the function they want performed. There are many toolbars included in some programs. Quite often toolbars can be made active by going under a view menu with Alt-V, using the up or down arrow to find the toolbar choice, using right arrow to move into the toolbar submenu and then using up or down arrows to find the toolbar you want. In Microsoft Word there will be several toolbars. If you want to work with forms then press enter on the forms toolbar choice. If you want to work with drawing tools then press enter on that choice. The standard and formatting toolbars in Microsoft Word should be left checked. When using up or down arrows through the toolbars submenu listen for whether an item is checked or not. If it is checked it is already active and in use. Simply press enter on a choice to reverse the status, in other words if it says checked and you press enter you will remove the toolbar from the screen and visa versa. In Microsoft Word to access a toolbar that is active first press Alt or Alt with an underlined letter on the menu bar to move to the menus. After moving to the menu bar use the keystroke CTRL+tab to cycle between available toolbars and the menu bar. You will learn which choices are on what toolbars and what to listen for to know it is the toolbar you want. For example, you listen for "New blank document" to know you are on the standard toolbar. Once on the toolbar you want you can use right and left arrows to move across the toolbar. Pressing enter on a choice performs the function. For example, if you right arrow across the standard toolbar to the "E-mail recipient" button and press enter, the headers to fill in for your E-mail message will appear. In HTML formatted E-mail, help systems, Internet browsers like Internet Explorer, etc., you access an active toolbar by using Insert-F8, (the insert key on the number pad when the numlock key is off with the function key 8). When the toolbar appears then you can up and down arrow to choices. It is important to remember that most things a person uses the toolbars for can be accomplished by using menus or with hotkeys. This isn't always true though. This has been a quick general overview or synopsis of what a toolbar is and how to access toolbars using JAWS. Let me know if I can clarify any of the points I made. Brian Lee [email protected] One point that I would like to add is that some tool bars are floating tool bars. This means that they will appear some place on the screen other then under the menu bar or the standard tool bar, and these floating toolbars move. You can still navigate to them as described in Brian's excellent post. Sometimes these floating tool bars can cause JAWS to have problems reading the contents of your screen. HTH, Annette Hello, Press Jaws key+F8 different items will come out regarding the program that you use. In Internet Explorer the insert+F8 only brings up the IE toolbar. The insert-F8 keystroke is generally mapped to the function for showing the active application's toolbar. Sometimes by moving to the top of a web page using CTRL+home keys, routing JAWS to virtual PC, doing a page up and then moving down a line at a time with the down arrow key will find other toolbars. If you do find your toolbar then you can move a word at a time across it using CTRL+right arrow until you find the tool you want to click. Use a left mouse click emulation by using the insert+slash keys on the numpad when numlock is off. After clicking on the choice remember to put the virtual PC cursor on again. Some one else might have a better way to access other toolbars in Internet Explorer. The above sometimes works for me and sometimes doesn't work. To perform the above functions if you have a laptop using the laptop keyboard configuration, use the caps lock key instead of the insert. A left mouse click can be done with caps lock and the number 8. Moving a word at a time when JAWS cursor is active can be done with caps lock and L. Routing JAWS to PC or virtual cursors is done with caps lock+left bracket keys. Activating PC or virtual cursors is done with caps lock semicolon. Brian Lee [email protected] Now, with Office, you can access toolbars by first opening the Office programme's menu bar with alt, then do a control tab. If your PC dings instead, it means no toolbars are showing. Next, you can tab and shift tab to cycle through the buttons and what not, and do what you would normally do when navigating dialogue boxes. Hope that helps. Hi, toolbars are objects that you can click on with the mouse. They are usually represented by an icon that can be clicked. They are not all that accessible, however some software include tooltips, text that appears when you hover your mouse over a toolbar icon. To use a toolbar, find a toolbar icon that you want using your JAWS cursor (it might either say graphic xxx, where xxx is a 3-digit number), or text associated with that toolbar icon, such as "bold", and do a left mouse click with num pad slash. Hope that helps. Hi, a correction. Insert num pad slash will in fact lock the left mouse button down. Pressing again will unlock it. This is not what you want; just press num pad slash on its own for a left click. Chris Hallsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: James Flusche To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:15 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] How do you get rid of toolbars with Jaws? How do you delete unwanted toolbars from IE-7? I have already removed the program from add-remove programs, and have checked under my computer-programs to make sure that the program was removed. The toolbar still shows up under the toolbars in IE-7, how can I remove this toolbar or get access to it with Jaws? Please be detailed, I am a beginner. Thank you. James Flusche Cell Phone: 614-266-4545 E-mail: [email protected] "Job 28-28 And to man He said, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding." AS ALWAYS: "GO BUCKS"... For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
