Hi, Soronel. Is it necessary to click the "Desktop" Split button, or do you
just right arrow when reaching the "Desktop" Split button?
Thank you.
Bill White [email protected]
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From: "Soronel Haetir via Jfw" <[email protected]>
To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]>
Cc: "Soronel Haetir" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: How to get location from "File Save" dialog
It's not super easy but still fairly easy, if you tab through the
dialog controls, just after Cancel in the default dialog there is a
"Desktop" split button, from there each time you hit right arrow jaws
will read a single path component.
I'm pretty sure the save as dialog has been like that since at least
Vista.
Also, you can right click on that desktop button and there is an "Edit
address" choice, that allows you to hear the entire path at one go.
On 8/27/15, Paul Martz via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all.
Is there a quick way to get JAWS to read the location (i.e., library name
or
filesystem path) while in a "File Save" dialog?
Some apps use the "Documents" library as the default. Other apps have
their
own location as the default. If you change the location when you save a
file, this is "sticky" for some apps, and for other apps it is not
sticky.
Even if it is sticky, if it's been a while since I saved a file in the
app,
I may have forgotten where I last saved the file. So the bottom line is:
Just about any time I save a file, I'd like to quickly find out where the
"File Save" dialog is set to save the file, before I click the save
button.
It'd be nice if I could just hit JAWSKEY + T, but unfortunately, the
current
location path is not displayed in the title bar of the "File Save"
dialog,
so this doesn't work.
The "File Save" dialog typically opens with focus in the file name field.
The only way I know to obtain the location is to SHIFT + TAB about a half
dozen times until I get to the confusingly titles "toolbar desktop split
button", press spacebar, then hit JAWSKEY + UP ARROW to read the current
line. Note that the number of times I have to hit SHIFT + TAB to get to
the
"toolbar desktop split button" is variable, as the number of controls
varies
depending on the currently set location. So this method is time consuming
and rather a PITA.
Making matters worse, many applications use custom versions of the "File
Save" dialog. Each new version of MS Office, for example, has a
completely
different "File Save" dialog. Other older apps, such as FS OpenBook, have
an
old Windows 98 style of "File Save". Just as an example. How I get JAWS
to
read the current location varies depending on the style of "File Save"
dialog the application is using.
This is really a problem that is screaming for a built-in JAWS solution
that
would be universal across all applications and styles of "File Save"
dialogs.
Any ideas?
As a final note, I train blind and visually impaired people on using the
computer with JAWS, and one of the most frequent problems people
encounter
is that they don't know where they are saving their documents and
subsequently are unable to locate them.
-Paul
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