Hello David

This is very reassuring; thank you. I guess we'll have to look and see if we 
can get funds for Gordon.

Lynne


On 30 Dec 2011, at 17:25, David Griffith 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



-----Original Message-----
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Annabel Smith
Sent: 30 December 2011 13:13
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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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