As a blind trainer the closest I have found to assisting sighted persons follow my current activity is to use
Control + Insert + numPad Minus You will hear Jaws cursor will follow PC To toggle this setting off repeat The problem screen readers have leaving this setting on is that it can and will inadvertently trigger tool tips and other actions. HTH - jeff From: Maria Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS? Sadly, I have that feature set to on, and yet hubby doesn't know where I am on web pages. Maria Campbell [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. --Attributed to Jimi Hendrix On 1/30/2016 9:37 AM, Brian Vogel wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 07:15 am, Bill White <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: Another setting which will assist sighted people to know where JAWS is on the screen is "Show Virtual Viewer On Screen". This setting is in the Basics menu of JAWS options. Bill, If turning this on does not have some really ugly effect on JAWS efficiency then every sighted JAWS tutor or assistant will bless the fact that you've revealed its existence. Even if it does, there are those occasions where turning it on will alleviate a lot of frustration for the sighted who are being asked to assist at that moment, then you can turn it off after. I only recently wrapped my head around the virtual cursor (thank you Mr. Martin), which comes hugely into play for both web pages and PDF files, and my clients cannot understand how I'm becoming confused until I tell them that JAWS is not "following" visibly what it's processing at the moment in speech. It really is profoundly disorienting when you're trying to follow along and suddenly there's nothing visible to follow along with. Brian
