Brian,

There's a setting in the tools/options/advanced having to do with smooth 
scrolling. I wonder if that has any bearing?

Dave Carlson
Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brian Vogel 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS?


On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:24 am, Marten Post Uiterweer <[email protected]> 
wrote:

  The brailleviewer is verry usefull. Ofcource it will not show things in
  braille. It will show the text that is also shown on a brailledisplay
  and a brailledisplay will show what Jaws speaks, so the brailleviewer
  will also show what is spoken. Not completely, but for the most part.
 Marten,

             This can indeed be very useful in its own right, but take it from 
a sighted helper, it doesn't solve the original problem posed.  Most of us can 
tell precisely what JAWS is reading and saying, the problem is we have 
absolutely no idea where that is on the web page itself.  If you're on a 
text-rich webpage in particular, long wikipedia pages are an excellent example, 
JAWS can be reading multiple scrolled pages ahead of what has been left visible 
on the screen.  Trying to figure out where that actually is on the web page 
itself is often really a major production that breaks both flow and train of 
thought for the listener.

             I still do not have a reply from FS Technical Support of whether 
there actually is a practical way to make JAWS force Windows to scroll the web 
browser such that what's being read corresponds to what an assistant can 
actually see on the screen at that moment, at least somewhere on that screen.

Brian

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