Hi, All, I promised Monday to send this to people who wanted it, but after getting a number of requests, I decided to forward it to the list. I tried twice, but it disappeared into cyberspace. This time I'm pasting it into this email, and I hope it gets to all those who wanted it. Regards, Evelyn Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 12:02:40 -0500From: Dan Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: HJ Newsletter from Dan Clark, November 3, 1999 Newsletter DC, November, 1999.This is an informal email newsletter from Dan Clark, of Henter-Joyce, Inc.This newsletter is distributed to several listserves as well, so if youreceive it, be sure to check the source. Please let me know if you wish tobe removed from this list, or if you have friends who would like to beadded. I will confirm with them before adding. Thanks!Dan Clark, Account Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Contents.A. JFW 3.31 shipping date. B. New JFW 3.31 demo posted on web.C. The latest video card information for JFW.D. The different cursors in JFW.E. IE 5.0 with JFW 3.31.F. PowerPoint with JFW 3.31.G. Closing the Gap.H. Formal newsletter coming soon from marketing department.I. On the road again.J. Training Center discunt.K. New Employees at HJ.A. JFW 3.31 shipping date. The JFW 3.31.35 CD ROM discs have beenreceived at our offices and on November the second we began shipping thenew CD's to all registered 3.30 JFW owners. Please allow at least threeweeks from this date to call our sales department if you have not receivedyour new CD. Customers who now have JFW 3.30 will automatically be shippeda new JFW 3.31 CD. Customers who recently upgraded from JFW 3.2 to 3.30will receive the new CD as well as a single audio tape describing the newfeatures from JFW 3.2 to 3.3. Users upgrading from 3.0 or earlier willreceive the full product package, including manuals, quick referenceguides, and the full set of audio tapes. Again, please allow at least 3weeks before calling to check on the status of your JFW 3.31 product if youhave not received it.B. New JFW 3.31 demo posted on web. We now have the new version of JFW3.31 posted as a demo on our web site. The direct URL to the demo ishttp://www.hj.com/JFW/JFW331DemoOp.htm. This demo is flly functional for40 minutes each time you start a new Windows session, and includes theEloquence for JFW speech synthesizer speaking in seven languages.C. The latest video card information for JFW.Check out our web site at this URL,http://www.hj.com/TechSupport/JFWTS/JFWVideo/JFWVC9X.htm, and you will findgood news. Of the 21 cards listed, there is only one which does not workwith JFW 3.31, the Diamond Viper 550. Here is a quote from that page: Thefollowing list contains information about video card compatibility withJAWS 3.31 for Windows 95/98. Each card was tested at a screen resolution of1024x768 and at all available color depths 256 and greater. Please notethat although JAWS will perform correctly at color depths greater than 256 you will lose some graphic labels. This is due to the fact that currentlyall graphics labeling is don at the 256 color depth only. Consequently,you will need to relabel any unlabeled graphics when running at colordepths greater than 256. As time goes on, HJ will be labeling moregraphics in more resolutions.D. The different cursors in JFW. There are five different cursorspresently in the JFW 3.31 version. They are the PC cursor, the Virtual PCcursor, the JAWS cursor, the Invisible cursor, and the Braille cursor. 1. The PC cursor. The PC cursor is used for editing purposes, as whenyou are typing a letter, writing email, or filling out forms. With it youcan edit text in a document or navigate through the document. You canusually read and maneuver in the menus as well and can use other specificcontrols, such as buttons and checkboxes, depending on the application.The PC cursor is the cursor most people use most often. It typically cannot move out of the edit area to explore the screen or menu areas. The PCcursor is limited to the currently visible screen. 2. The JAWS cursor. The JAWS cursor is in essence the mouse cursor. It can explore the screen beyond where the PC cursor is limited, for example,you can read the title bar with the JAWS cursor but not with the PC cursor. Using the JAWS cursor, one can point and click, drag and drop, and othertasks that typical mouse users might perform. The JAWS cursor is limitedto the currently visible screen. 3. The Virtual PC cursor. The Virtual PC cursor is activated when youopen IE 5 or HTML documents in Outlook or Outlook Express 5. When thenewly opened page is finished loading, JAWS announces the presence offrames, links, and forms on the page, and then begins to read the entirepage automatically.The Virtual PC cursor works in the Internet Explorer 5.0 environment inmuch the same way that the PC cursor does in other applications. TheVirtual PC cursor responds to normal screen reading keys in the same way,but there is no visual indication on the area of the screen that is beingaffected. In addition, the screen does not automatically scroll, so tobring up text that is out of screen range, you must press INSERT+ESC or usethe scroll bars. (This may be useful for your sight-dependent friends tofollow along.) When reading a Web page with the Virtual PC cursor, you canselect text using the standard Windows text selection keys, though there is verbal, rather than visual feedback of what is being selected.When a page with frames first comes up, all frames are readable insequential order. As you enter a frame, you hear, Frame "X", where "X"represents the name of the frame. As you leave a frame, you hear FrameEnd. SayAll in line mode reads the document from top to bottom, and whenpressing CTRL to stop SayAll, you are positioned near the last item read.You can navigate reading by line, sentence, or paragraph, as well as bymoving by words and characters.When reading text on a Web page, each link appears to be on its own line,even though this may not be true on the screen. Visited links areidentified as visited. They are also properly categorized as visited in theLinks List dialog. When JFW encounters a link that does not have any textassociated with it, one of two things is announced. If the link is a GIlink, the name of the graphic is spoken. Otherwise, the last directorycomponent and the file name of the URL is spoken instead.To quickly skip past headers, you can press INSERT+ENTER. This moves youdown through the page to the first text of at least 50 characters that isnot a link. When it arrives at the text, the current line is read. When the cursor is on a line with a link, pressing ENTER or NUM PAD SLASHactivates that link. Subsequently, pressing BACKSPACE moves you back toyour last position on the last page read. When using the Virtual cursorand you encounter a link on the screen that has an ALT tag, JAWS will readthat tag since it is more descriptive. The Virtual PC cursor is enabled in DEFAULT.JCF. If you do not want to usethe Virtual PC cursor, turn it off by un-checking the checkbox. Use theVirtual PC Cursor under the Advanced setting of the Configuration Managerin DEFAULT.JCF. If you want to have this cursor disabled every time you arein the IE 5, you can uncheck this box in BROWSEUI.JCF.To disable Virtual PC cursor mode temporarily in one session, you cantoggle to the previous method we used by pressing INSERT+Z. Note thatreformatting a Web page using INSERT+F5 is only available in non-virtualcursor mode. This can be useful for those with low vision who may be usinga screen magnification program such as MAGic. The Virtual PC cursor canread to the end of a document even though that part of the document may NOTbe visible on the screen.Forms Mode. With the Virtual PC cursor positioned on a form field, press ENTER or the NUM PAD SLASH key to switch to Forms mode. You will hear"Forms Mode On", the information and the name of the control you are on.When you press ENTER to go into Forms mode, the real PC cursor is activatedon or in the current control. TAB and SHIFT+TAB may be used to move betweenfields in forms mode. When using these keys for navigation, the natural taborder is used, including any links that may appear between fields. As youland on the different controls, JAWS announces the new control, such as alink or a field. While in forms mod you can navigate edit fields usingthe PC cursor as you normally do. To exit Forms mode, press NUM PAD PLUS toactivate the Virtual PC cursor.Note: JFW remains in Forms mode until the Virtual PC cursor is activated ora new page is displayed, whichever comes first. Pressing INSERT+ESC alsoreturns you to Virtual Cursor mode and moves the position of the Virtual PCcursor to the first control on the current page.Tip: Return to the Virtual PC cursor using the familiar NUM PAD PLUS. Thisturns Forms Mode off. 4. The Invisible cursor. The Invisible cursor is similar to the JAWScursor, except that it does not physically move the mouse pointer around on the screen. This is useful in script writing where the mouse cursor mightget people confused as it moves from place to place while performing ascript, for example. 5. The Braille cursor. The Braille cursor is not visible on thescreen,much like the Virtual PC cursor. JFW has three different Braille modes,Line mode, Structured Mode, and Speech Box mode. While in Line mode thebraille cursor by default can move freely with in the current windowwithout moving the active cursor. This feature can be toggled to move theactive cursor with the braille display. The Braille cursor is mostly usedin script writing. The Braille cursor, like the Virtual PC cursor, canread an entire document, even if it is not visible on the screen.E. IE 5.0 with JFW 3.31. See section "D-3" above about the Virtual PCcursor, which is used in IE 5.0. Being able to read a web page exactlylike reading a word processing document is a tremendous feature. Thisversion of JFW 3.31 is optimized for IE 5.0. The Virtual PC cursor doesnot work with IE 4.01, however, we have left the ability to read IE 4.01 asit was in JFW version 3.2. F. PowerPoint with JFW 3.31. 1. Overview. When you enter the PowerPoint program, the first thing Iwould suggest is that you pull up the application specific JAWS help bypressing the key combination INSERT+F1+F1. It starts out like this:PowerPoint 2000 is a graphics presentation package that allows you tocreate overheads, slide shows, and professional presentations. PowerPointis a visual application and thus offers limited accessibility for creatingpresentations. Nevertheless, the new scripts in JFW 3.31 (nearly 2,720lines worth) make it possible to create and read slides relatively easily.Due to the nature of PowerPoint, JFW will often tell you information thatis not actually displayed on the screen but which describes graphicalconcepts or animation effects that the sighted user would take for granted.Where possible, descriptive information uses the same jargon as used in thePowerPoint documentation. For example, the box on a slide where a title isentered is called a Title Placeholder. JFW will announce this placeholdereven though there is no text on the screen that says the words "TitlePlaceholder." With the Internet and the Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 presentation graphicsprogram, you can develop and deliver presentations for the Web as well asfor more traditional face-to-face meetings. In PowerPoint 2000, manyfamiliar features have been enhanced to make presentation development anddelivery (online or otherwise) easier. The new Tri-Pane view allows you to add slides, double-check your outline,edit and reformat text, and type comments all in one combined view. Youdon't have to navigate between slides to keep track of your points, and ittakes less time to create your presentation. 2. Creating a simple slide show. When PowerPoint first comes up,thereis a dialog box on screen asking if you want to "Open an existingpresentation" in Office 97 and Office 2000. There are four radio buttonshere, and you can explore them if you wish. However, I prefer to simplypress escape to clear these dialogs and begin working from the menus.Depending on how your version of MS PowerPoint is set up, you may hear theword "Control" after JFW reads the initial dialog box. It will soundsomething like this. "Open an existing presentation radio button pressed,four of four, Control". This means that when you press the escape key toclear the initial dialog, there is a floating control menu somewhere on the screen, and since it could hide what you are working on, here is how toturn it on and off. a. First press escape to clear the initial PowerPoint dialog with theradio buttons. b. Second, go to the View menu, ALT+V, press T for Toolbars, downarrowuntil you hear "control toolbox checked" and press enter to uncheck this,which closes the menus and this toolbox, and then takes you back to themain PowerPoint screen.Once you have made these simple changes, if necessary, here is how you cancreate a simple PowerPoint presentation. c. Go to the File menu, ALT+F and choose the first item, NEW. Thequickkey is CTRL+N. d. You get a multilevel tab dialog box, with the focus on an iconinsideof the first tab page. This icon is labeled "Blank Presentation.Pot" andthe first tab you are on in the dialog box is "General Tab". You can beginusing this icon by pressing enter, or you can go to the next multilevel tabpage by pressing CTRL+TAB, which is the "Presentation Designs" tab. The Presentation Designs tab offers many pre-set color schemes for the colorsof your slide show presentation. JFW will read the names of thesepresentation designs, but you may need someone to describe the layout ofthe colors that are available. For example, you would not want a slideshow with graphics about a birthday party to be the background for abusiness presentation. A good one to use in general is called"contemporary.pot", which has white text on a blue background. You canexperiment with the different presentation designs later. e. Press ENTER on Contemporary.Pot and you get a new dialog, calledNEWSLIDE. Within this dialog are several types of slides, and when you gothere first you land on the TITLE SLIDE. Press enter on this title slide. f. Do a SAY ALL (Insert+down arrow) and you will hear that there aretwoplaceholders on the current slide. Placeholders are where your text willappear when you type it in. A good analogy for placeholders is that theyare like magnets that you may put on your refrigerator. You can move themaround, and in PowerPoint, you can move the placeholders around on thescreen and actually change the size of the placeholders if you need to. Irecommend not changing their sizes or location while you are learning. Inthis case, you should hear "Center title Placeholder, and Subtitle Placeholder". This slide has a place for the title of your presentation,and it will be centered. It also has a place just below the title forSubtitles. g. Press the TAB key to move to the center title placeholder. h. Press the SPACEBAR and you will be in an edit mode, go ahead andtype"My first Presentation". i. Press ESCAPE to get out of the edit mode, then press TAB to go totheSubtitle placeholder. j. Press the SPACEBAR to get into edit mode and type something likethefollowing two lines: "Using JAWS for Windows", then hit enter to go to the next line andtype "by Your Name". k. Press ESCAPE to get out of edit mode.You have now created your first slide, the title slide. l. Next, go to the file menu and choose ALT+I for the insert menu, andchoose the first item in this list which is "New Slide", or you can just press the quick key, CTRL+M to create the new slide. m. The "new slide" dialog pops up again, but notice that this time,youare not on the title slide. Instead, PowerPoint has moved you to the nextslide to the right and says "bulleted List". You can explore the otherchoices of slide types by pressing your arrow keys. Do so at your leisure. n. Choose the "bulleted list" slide in this example by pressing ENTERon it. o. SAY ALL (Insert+down arrow) will tell you the placeholders on thenewslide, in this case, a title and a body placeholder. p. Tab to the Title placeholder, press spacebar to get into edit mode,and type the title of this slide, for example, I used "JFW can now doPowerPoint!". Press escape to get out of edit mode. q. Tab to the Body placeholder, press spacebar to get into edit mode,andtype your first bullet point. In this case I typed "This is my firstbullet point" and press ENTER to go to the next bullet point, just belowthe first one. Type in another bullet point. In this case I typed "Youcan make points with bullets". Press ESCAPE to get out of edit mode.Basically, that is all there is to creating a PowerPoint presentation. Youcan continue with different slide presentation designs, or you can continueto use the bulleted list. Of course, you should stop and save your file,just like saving any other windows program. CTRL+S or ALT+F, then S.When you open an existing PowerPint presentation, you are in a screenwhich has three basic areas. They are the slide view pane, the speaker'snotes pane, and the outline view pane. You can move from pane to pane bypressing the F6 key and JFW will let you know where you are and if anythingis selected or not.PowerPoint has a lot of capability, and I admit that I do not know muchmore than the basics I've showed you here. But the good news is, you cannow start using and learning PowerPoint. And you can read a PowerPointpresentation that someone in your office sends you, for example.To view the PowerPoint presentation, go to the VIEW menu, ALT+V, and chooseSLIDE SHOW, or the shortcut key W. You will be on the title slide and JFWwill read the first slide for you automatically. To move to and read thenext slide, simply press the spacebar. If you are giving a livepresentation, you can silence JFW from speaking the "spacebar" each time you press it by using the toggle key INSERT+2 on the number row to toggleJFW keyboard echo to "none" just for that presentation.There you have a very basic overview of how to create and read a PowerPointpresentation. I hope this helps.G. Closing the Gap. We had a very successful show at Closing the Gap inMinneapolis. It was great to see all of our friends. At our booth and atour suite we were showing JAWS for Windows running in the Windows 2000beta. We are already working on fine tuning this, but of course, we willnot actually officially support Windows 2000 until it is actually released. However, we are already working with it and will be ready for the releaseof Windows 2000, which I heard has been delayed until February 17, 2000.Also, we showed the MAGic screen magnification program, which is being verywell received as more and more people find out about it and as we add newfeatures.H. Formal newsletter coming soon from marketing department. Our marketingmanager and webmaster, Wilson Craig, and his staff are putting together a formal Henter-Joyce, Inc. newsletter which should come out in it's initialrelease sometime next week. We plan to post this newsletter to our website in html format and we will mail out the first official newsletter tothose of you who are already signed up on our various email lists. I hopeto continue my informal newsletter as well.I. On the road again. This discusses the schedules of our traveling salesstaff and where they will be. 1. Bill Kilroy, Director of Low Vision Accounts. 11/4 Mass. Comm. Staff Meeting - Boston, MA. 11/9-11/10 Technology Explosion II Conference, ULVA/Dessie Page -Columbus, OH. 11/12 Adaptive Technology Conference/SUNY w/CTECH - Utica,NY. 11/17 AT TechAccess of Rhode Island - Warwick, RI 11/18 Easter Seals Presentation - Worchester, MA 2. Dan Clark, Account Development Manager. 11/4 FAER - Kissimmee, FL 11/5 Miami-Dade Public Schools/CTECH - Miami, FL 11/10 Low Vision Fair - Orange City, FL 11/18 Wisconsin Council of the Blind - Madison, WI 11/19 Badger Association of the Blind - Milwaukee, WI 3. Eric Damery, Vice President of Business Development. 11/3-11/6 REHA - Duesseldorf, Germany. 11/9-11/10 Technology Explosion II Conference, ULVA/Dessie Page -Columbus, OH.J. Training Center discount. This is a new program which is being managedby Dan Clark. If you have any questions, please call at extension 1016 orsend email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. The goal is to get JFW/MAGic in training centers at a discountedprice. NOTE: This is for training centers or evaluation centers which areSEPARATE from schools or other educational facilities, as they have adifferent price structure.The Training Center price is 25% of the list price, with the condition thatyou must purchase an initial SMA at full price. Our reason for this is that we want you to be current for at least a year or so. When your SMAexpires, we will send you a renewal notice, offering to allow you topurchase the SMA for another period. Pricing is as follows, and applies tothe United States only. Canada pricing is slightly higher for the SMA.Call for pricing outside of the US. JFW $200, SMA $100, s/h $10, total = $310. MAGic $75, SMA $75, s/h $10, total = $160. Total Training Package price $470. Savings off of list price, $815. JFWNT $300, SMA $200, s/h $10, total = $510. MAGic NT $100, SMA $150, s/h $10, total = $260. Total Training Package price $770. Savings off of list price, $1190. 2. The Training Center copy can only be used on one machine at thetraining center, and may also be used by the primary trainer at thatfacility at home, so that they can better learn the product. You can doevaluations and/or training with this copy as long as it remains on onlyone machine at the Training Center. 3. Some Training Centers have very limited funding for softwarepurchases. If you cannot afford the price of the Training Package my goalwill be to try to get you to budget the Training Package in your nextbudget cycle. If you agree to do this, we will provide you with one TimedEvaluation of JFW/MAGic, at no charge, sufficient to keep you running onone machine. Typically, we would set the TE to run for 90 days. Ifnecessary, we can extend this time by sending another TE authorizationdisk. Also, we will keep records and make sure that no one abuses this,and the limit is no more than 3 Timed Evaluations total. 4. Some consultants/trainers work independently of any one particularTraining Center. If they do a lot of work and recommend JFW/MAGic, I wouldlike to extend the Training Package price to them as well. Theseindependent trainers will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.K. New Employees at HJ. Henter-Joyce, Inc. has continued to grow, addinga total of 30 new employees since January of this year. Please welcome tothe Training and Technical Writing Management position Susan Mallison.Also, Lance Love is now our new manager of the Production and Shippingdepartment. Check our web site, www.hj.com, for further job announcements as we continue our growth. Thanks to our customers all around the worldfor helping us to make JFW a better and more popular product!-- end of file -- - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
