When you refer to active cursor I guess you mean the Jaws cursor. You can toggle the settings for this with Jaws key plus R. There are a whole number of options including window restriction, focus window restriction, frame restriction and so on. I suspect the setting you want however is unrestricted. I personally use this a lot. With unrestricted set, your cursor can go anywhere on the screen you want.
David Griffith The options are -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: 19 January 2014 19:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Jaws 15, initial Impressions Hello everybody I have just completed the process of installing, aceativating and configuring Jaws 15 on my primary computer. My initial impressions are somewhat mixed. I guess I'm just used to the way that orther screen-readers on onether platforms behave. But it seems to me that Jaws still doesn't allow the kind of dynamic object interaction available in applications such not NVDA and Window-Eyes. I am deliberately avoiding making comparisons between Windows-based access solutions such as Jaths and Apple's VoiceOver. Since the two operating systems are so very different, it would be grossly unfair to compare them either at the access level or the basic operating system level. So, back to Jaws. I note that Freedom still doesn't seem to allow the active cursor to wander outside of the active application, treating the application window as a kind of sheet of paper whose boundrieeas you cannot cross. Again, these are only initial impressions and I have no doubt that I still have lots to learn. I know, I always said that I wouldn't ever deal with Freedom again following their disgusting treatment of me from several years back. But need's must, and in any event grudges get one nowhere. So last week we bit the proverbial bullet and bought a license for a single-user client of Jaws Professional 15. Interestingly enough, although I do have an active Internet connection, Freedom's automatic activation application refused to allow me to connect to their servers. I was, however, able to connect to the fsactivate.com system and obtain a license code from there without any trouble. So I just used the manual activation method and that worked great. I'm also pleased to say that I've been able to configure Jaws to use my prefurred software speech synthesiser. That was quite a welcome bonus because I really do not like that awful Eloquance system. I will be most interested to go through some of the training material to find out what's changed since I last played with Jaws when version 11 was current. I'm particularly looking forward to playing with the Microsoft Ofice applications to see how well those work. On this machine, I also have licensed versions of Window-eyes, Access To Go, Dolphin Supernova and, of course, NVDA. I'm looking forward to seeing how well each system performs within the environments I need to work in. Mary may be able to advise me regarding Duxbury Braille Translator 11.1 SRBLED. I'm toying with the idea of attempting to remove Microsoft Office Professional 2010, in favour of version 2013, for which we also have a license. Hopefully the Office experience under Jaws will be a good one. I welcome very much any comment others may have regarding how Jaws works. Especially if such comment helps me to get the best out of it. And finally, I apologise for any errors in this message. It was written using my BrailleNote Apex and I still seem to get stray ghost dots now and then. I'm going to be talking in some detail about that in a post to our sister group "Techno-Chat" in the not too distant future. 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