Thanks. For a while I wasn't sure how to get back up to the top. "say all" works more like I would expect "say from cursor" to work.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Mcginnis, Barbara via Jfw < [email protected]> wrote: > Just checked out the answer from Soronel. Say all starts at the > beginning of the line on which the cursor is located. If you are on the > last line it will only read the last line. If you want to start reading at > the beginning of the document, press Control plus home and it will take you > to the top of the document. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Soronel Haetir via Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 2:58 PM > To: Paul Lynch; The Jaws for Windows support list. > Subject: Re: Trouble with "say all" > > Say all normally starts from the current cursor position, possibly the > beginning of the current line instead of the current position proper, but > it does not start from the beginning of the document as a general matter. > > On 2/4/15, Paul Lynch via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was testing out the "say all" command, and I am confused by the > > behavior. Sometimes "say all" only seems to say the current line or > > section, when I would expect it to always start from the top of the page. > > > > Test case: > > > > 1) start JAWS > > 2) Start IE 11, and go to > > http://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/Surfs-Up/Table_Reading_Comma > > nds.htm > > 3) Let JAWS read a little bit, and then hit Esc. > > 4) Hit insert + down arrow (say all). JAWS starts reading from the > > first paragraph, skipping the heading. > > 5) Hold down right arrow long enough to fast forward to the end of the > > page. > > 6) Hit insert + down arrow (say all) again. JAWS only reads the last > > line of the page. > > > > What does "say all" mean if it "all" doesn't mean the whole page? > > > > Thanks, > > --Paul > > > > -- > > Paul Lynch > > National Library of Medicine > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > > scrubbed... > > URL: > > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/ > > 20150204/079e2407/attachment.html> > > _______________________________________________ > > Jfw mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > > > -- > Soronel Haetir > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > ________________________________ > > Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North > Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an > authorized State official. Unauthorized disclosure of juvenile, health, > legally privileged, or otherwise confidential information, including > confidential information relating to an ongoing State procurement effort, > is prohibited by law. If you have received this email in error, please > notify the sender immediately and delete all records of this email. > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Paul Lynch National Library of Medicine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150204/81bb6687/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
