When I press Alt, I have Upper Ribbon. When I press Applications, it says 
Applications, and when I press Shift F10, it says Menu. When I press Right 
Mouse on the Num Lock Pad, it says Right Mouse. Within the body of this e-mail, 
the last three give me all the same information. 

Bye for now,

Carolyn


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Carlson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 3:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity

Gary,
 
...and here lies a problem. When I press my applications key I hear menu. JAWS 
is not behaving. When I press Shift+F10 I hear Context  menu. JAWS is not 
saying "application".
 
 
Dave Carlson
Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary King <mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 08:52 AM
Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity


Brian,
I think that "Applications Key" would be a better label  for that key when 
instructing screen reader users for a couple of reasons.  When I press that 
key, JAWS first speaks "applications" before speaking "context menu."  If you 
call it the menu key, it could be confused with other types of menus.
 
Shift F10 typically brings up the same context menu as the Applications Key, 
but I have seen instances when the Shift F10 context menu has a few extra 
choices.
 
Gary King
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Brian Vogel <mailto:[email protected]>
        To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
        Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:30 PM
        Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity

        On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 02:21 pm, Jean Menzies <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
        

                They are the same. Context key: typically beside the right alt 
key (between alt and control) on a standard keyboard.

         Thanks Jean.  Now that you've described it that's what I've more 
commonly heard referred to as "the menu key" for the very reason that it's used 
very frequently to cause context menus to appear.

        This key seems to be becoming more variable as far as precisely where 
it's placed and whether a keyboard has one, particularly on laptops.  My 
relatively new HP laptop doesn't have one at all.  My partner's slightly older 
Toshiba laptop has it located between ALT and CTRL on the right side of the 
spacebar while the Windows key is in that position on the left on both our 
laptops.  I'll have to look at my old Win7 laptop upstairs to see if it had a 
menu/applications key on it.

        Brian




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