Hi Patti, A sighted person will sometimes want a larger font on the screenor at least to see a larger font on the screen without increasing the actual font in the document, or they'll want to be up close and person to what they're writing.
A horizontal scroll bar is similar to a vertical scroll bar. Obviously, all the information on a page can't be shown at once, so the user, Jaws or the computer has to go through it. one segment at a time. This is sort of like using a tape measure, either a fabric one, or a hardware one. One cannot look at the tape measure in it's entirety, one must look at it one section at a time, so at each end of the scroll bar, are two arrows, an arrow pointing up, at the top of the scroll bar, and an arrow pointing down at the bottom of the scroll bar. In the case of a horizontal scroll bar, the arrow are pointing left and right to correspond to the direction you want to go. Your hands on a tape measure are the arrows, or the action of pulling out the tape measure, or in this case, a page on the computer, from one side to the other, so you can view the numbers. Every time you pull or release the tape measure, you are activating one of those arrows like a sighted person does on the screen. Us blind people have it easy, because Jaws will usually scroll through a long document automatically, instead of having to press the down arrow to see the next line, paragraph or page in a document. In terms of the horizontal scroll bar, as I said above, a sighted person, such as my brother, will sometimes have a larger zoom percentage on the screen because his eyesight is not all that great because he can't afford a pair of glasses. Anyway, if he chooses to display the document zoom percentage at a higher rate, the text will overcome the sides of the screen so a sighted person must arrow to the left or the right to see what is covered, or not exposed on the screen. I should point out that there are several views that you can choose to negate the scroll bar appearing, the first is by selecting a zoom percentage lower than 100%, so it displays the entire page, or you can choose page width, so it displays just the area of the document from the left side of the page to the right side. Finally, you can choose to view the page from margin to margin, left to right. These are the ways to do it manually, but if an author comes along and decides he is going to write something that will change your settings, such is the case with a heavily graphics laden document. The way to completely negate the horizontal scroll bar automatically and forever is to uncheck that check box and it will always show the entire text from margin to margin, or from left side of page to the right, and it won't cut any of the words in half. Mind you, Jaws is not supposed to care whether there is a horizontal scroll bar, it is supposed to read the highlighted text in a document, not what is on the screen, but you know... Well laid plans of mice and men... Anyway, a long winded explanation of a small problem. Hope I haven't bored you yet. Victor Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
