It may be useful in certain applications where accessibility (or
usability) is over-all very poor, and where you need to click certain
buttons. (It just gives one a more accurate or assured clickable
environment.) However, when i first discovered it it was by accident;
and that way of it is indeed very confusing. So, setting it temporarily
(when needed) and then unsetting it - restoring JAWS cursor to not
follow the PC - when not needed, is a better modus operandi. Most of the
time, you will not need it. (perhaps it may be useful when scripting
certain applications? but, again, not leaving it like that when exiting
said applications.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 8:16 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Can Someone Explain Tethering
BlankI have Jaws 13 on an XP IE8 machine.
I started playing with the tether feature that somebody mentioned
yesterday.
At the time, I didn't realize that it crdeated all sorts of issues for
me.
I was hoping to have it follow my browsing activity so when I got to
some
buttons that were inaccessible, I might be able to mouse emulate and
left-click.
But, I encountered some interesting behavior that I didn't discover
until
after I took a bunch of other steps first that it was the tethering of
the
cursor that was at fault. The behaviors were that alt-tabbing only
took me
to the most previous app opened on the taskbar, and even worse, every
time I
landed on a submenu in a treview, Jaws opened up the submenu and it
was
impossible to left-arrow or escape out of it.
I originally thought I had a windows issue until I discovered that I
didn't
have that problem with System Access or Window-Eyes, nor with previous
versions of Jaws (since I hadn't changed the tethering). When I
untied the
cursors, behavior changed back to normal.
So, can someone give a cogent explanation of when tethering might be
appropriate and if there is a way to avoid the impossible behavior I
was
getting with the treviews?
Steve
Lansing, MI
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