Hi,

Press Numpad Plus twice quickly to return to PC cursor.

Despite its name, touch cursor isn’t limited to tablets – it is actually a fancy name for object navigation. Touch cursor comes in handy if you need to work with modern apps (including universal apps) where object navigation/touch cursor usage is essential.

Cheers,

Joseph

Hello list,

So while typing away doing this and that on my business desktop, I must have been too fast and sloppy because now, I seem to have enabled some sort of touch mode for a tablet PC and Jaws. Naturally, the famous search for command feature that was introduced in one of the recent Jaws updates isn’t giving me any results no matter what I type. Poking around the Jaws help files isnt’ giving me anything either. I have to imagine it’s a toggle keystroke, but so far, I haven’t found it. The closeest I’ve come to is insert+shift+semi-colin for the touch cursor which doesn’t’ get me out of this mode.

I’m banging  out this email on my personal laptop, but I need to be able to work with my business machine. I thought I’d shoot an email to folks with more experience with the touch interface of Jaws while I continue my search  for a solution.

Thanks,

Heya folks,

Been doing a general clean up of my windows 7 PC and found I had a few versions of Jaws talking installers still installed which I uninstalled those Jaws versions awhile ago, as am using the latest Jaws 17 now. Is it safe to uninstall those older talking installers 15 and 16 and won’t affect my latest version 17 in any way?

Cheers,

Jim

Hello list,

So while typing away doing this and that on my business desktop, I must have been too fast and sloppy because now, I seem to have enabled some sort of touch mode for a tablet PC and Jaws. Naturally, the famous search for command feature that was introduced in one of the recent Jaws updates isn’t giving me any results no matter what I type. Poking around the Jaws help files isnt’ giving me anything either. I have to imagine it’s a toggle keystroke, but so far, I haven’t found it. The closeest I’ve come to is insert+shift+semi-colin for the touch cursor which doesn’t’ get me out of this mode.

I’m banging  out this email on my personal laptop, but I need to be able to work with my business machine. I thought I’d shoot an email to folks with more experience with the touch interface of Jaws while I continue my search  for a solution.

Thanks,

Hi,

 

I don’t have any problems with the newest adobe reader.

And there is  really a place where you shouln’d alt+tab. That is when you open a PDF file and Adobe Reader opens the dialog „how to read this PDF file. If you don’t wait enouch and alt+tab avay then you can’t alt+tab back to this dialog. You have only two possibilities wait and hope that this dialog moves into focus or search it trough  JAWS+f10  application list.

If you start alt+tabing then you get lost and cann’tfind the dialog and cann’t read the PDF file..

There is nothing to do with JAWS, Adobe made it’s software in such way.

 

Artur

 

From: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) [mailto:Ted.Lisle@...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 5:26 PM
To: jfw@groups.io
Subject: Re: simply do not alt tab;suggested solution for using Adobe

 

Anybody remember the film “Fire Fox”?  Now those are the smarts we need—make my day!

 

Ted

 

From: judith bron [mailto:jbron@...]
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 7:26 PM
To: jfw@groups.io
Subject: Re: simply do not alt tab;suggested solution for using Adobe

 

Or like telling the same blind computer user to pick up a mouse and will it to do what you think.  Alt tabbing is as normal as breathing.  JB

 

From: Brian Vogel [mailto:britechguy@...]
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 6:28 PM
To: jfw@groups.io
Subject: Re: simply do not alt tab;suggested solution for using Adobe

 

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 03:24 pm, ptusing <ptusing@...> wrote:

simply do not ever alt tab.

 Yeah, right.  This is akin to telling a computer user who can't see the system tray to "simply do not ever breathe."

Oy!

Brian

Hello list,

So while typing away doing this and that on my business desktop, I must have been too fast and sloppy because now, I seem to have enabled some sort of touch mode for a tablet PC and Jaws. Naturally, the famous search for command feature that was introduced in one of the recent Jaws updates isn’t giving me any results no matter what I type. Poking around the Jaws help files isnt’ giving me anything either. I have to imagine it’s a toggle keystroke, but so far, I haven’t found it. The closeest I’ve come to is insert+shift+semi-colin for the touch cursor which doesn’t’ get me out of this mode.

I’m banging  out this email on my personal laptop, but I need to be able to work with my business machine. I thought I’d shoot an email to folks with more experience with the touch interface of Jaws while I continue my search  for a solution.

Thanks,

----- Original Message -----

From: Jim L

To: jfw@groups.io

Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:42 PM

Subject: uninstalling talking installer

Heya folks,

 

Been doing a general clean up of my windows 7 PC and found I had a few versions of Jaws talking installers still installed which I uninstalled those Jaws versions awhile ago, as am using the latest Jaws 17 now. Is it safe to uninstall those older talking installers 15 and 16 and won’t affect my latest version 17 in any way?

 

Cheers,

 

Jim

 

I think that changing a subject line to reflect the current topic is both helpful and respectful to the other members of the group.

 And I don't think that anyone would argue that fact provided the new subject might possibly have any interest to the broader group.  If you've dropped reading the originally referenced thread I will pretty much assure you that things like discussing our experience of age, how many 'c's are in Al Pacino's name, and a plethora of trivial sidebars are entirely unlikely to be subjects worthy of their own threads.

There's a balance to be struck, and so far not renaming most of the drifted contributions seems entirely reasonable based upon their very content.  They're not topics that warrant a separate thread and most likely would result in wailing about "off topic posts."  This very thread has the very real danger of starting that type of wailing, but here I am!

As far as moderators go, I'm in favor of hands-off except in case of flame war.  I've seen way more than one lively list, with mostly on-topic posts, die because a moderator enforced their own purity tests rather than letting the cohort posting decide what was OK and what was not.

Brian

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 12:56 pm, Carolyn Arnold <4carolyna@...> wrote:

I'd bet on cc too.

 Al Pacino - single 'c'.  This page on pronouncing consonants in Italian gives good guidelines.  Since Al's 'c' is before an 'i' it gets the same treatment as the "ch" in church does.

Brian, mega thread drift