This is similar to NVDA. It loads web pages as quickly as possible and
one can fill out edit fields without extra keystrokes.
On 30/12/2011 17:33, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I'm far from an experienced JFW user but the thing which really impressed me
when I used it was how seamlessly Internet Explorer ran.
For example there was nont much of the "loading page" stuff you got with WE and
pages were displayed fairly quickly.
Then when it came to form filling JFW would allow one to fill in the edit boxes
when one came to them without having to issue any extra commands, this is what
users want surely! being able to browse a page and fill in forms where
appropriate with a minimum of fuss and certainly JFW gave me that.
I'm told that - when using Thunderbird with JFW - some customisation of the
email client is recommended to use JFW at its optimum with the software? Well
I'm not sure what those customisations are and I'll attempt to find out but
everything seemed to work here right out of the box without any hitches which
is more than I can say for WE at the present.
Sent from my iPad
On 31/12/2011, at 4:25 AM, "David Griffith"<[email protected]> wrote:
I am sure that if you have been comfortable using NVDA JFW will feel
comfortable as far as I can see the keys are about 95% identical.
Like NVDA insert or if you are laptop layout caps lock plus 1 will toggle
keyboard help on and off.
The main difference is in screen review. Jaws uses something called the Jaws
cursor which is the equivalent I think of what is described as the Mouse
cursor in Windows Eyes.
Below is a short summary of the Jaws cursor from memory.
To turn Jaws Cursor on press num pad minus or caps lock plus P in laptop
layout.
To turn normal PC cursor back on press num pad plus or caps lock plus semi
colon in ;laptop layout.
You can restrict the Jaws cursor to various window settings such as focus
window current window real window or unrestricted. I normally maximize
windows and use unrestricted if I am using the Jaws cursor . You can toggle
these restriction settings by pressing jaws key plus R to cycle through the
available options.
The other access feature of Jaws is the virtual window. This converts all
the text on the screen into a virtual window. I believe this has been
enhanced in Jaws 13. basically you press Jaws key plus alt plus W to create
this virtual window. You can select and copy all the produced text onto the
clipboard. This is useful if you want to get access to text which is not
normally spellable or editable with Jaws. You can also use it on a directory
to get all the available filenames for example. Voiceover actually does a
much better job of this kind of thing actually but I find this jaws feature
useful in Windows .
David Griffith
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Annabel Smith
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Subject: JFW
Hello everybody
OK, Gordon and I, not just myself, are about to try JFW. Given that we're
totally new to the product, is there anything specific we should know? How,
for instance, do we browse the screen? What about Gordon's Blue Tooth
Humanware Brailliant 40 Braille display; will it work?
Lynne
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