I like my keyboard except that if I press the F1 key without the function modifier it goes into sleep mode instantly. I make the mistake periodically because it's so close to the escape key. Is there

It happens when JAWS is off, so it must be the developers on the application side that are responsible for it. In the case of a browser, if JAWS is off, then the focus won't be on whatever was in the

I can understand the situation with menus, sub-menus, or dialogs. In each of those situations, new content is added to interface content. If the focus moves into that new content and the user issues a

In Chrome, if you press alt and move to the menu, the menu is not open yet. Press escape there and it still returns. It also happens in other parts of Chrome too, such as the address bar. About the to

I've noticed a pattern with escape key that I find a bit puzzling. It seems to have a memory of where the focus has been. Here's an example that moves the keyboard focus and then pressing escape moves

Following up to this email of April 2021. Hoping someone has new ideas as I came across the problem again. JAWS can navigate HTML files by block quote. It will also announce entering and exiting a blo

We have it at my university but I'm not sure if I've used it.

I can't seem to figure out how to open a link in a Word document. I tried keyboard commands like enter or control + enter and it just seems to change the document itself. I've searched my standard sou

How many techniques are there for moving to another application windows? I can think of 3 alt + tab jaws + shift + f10 windows + t, then left or right

Thanks Debby. I didn't know there was a Manage Key Labels dialog. Very interesting. The entries to change are lwin and rwin, which I guess standards for left window and right window. However, there's

Thank you Adrian, Brian. I've been experimenting too and also think the operating system has a list of windows ordered by "last time used." After closing the current window, the operating system moves

When pressing Window short cut keys, like Windows + t or Windows + b, JAWS says the keystroke. I find it extraneous verbiage because I know the keys I pressed. JAWS doesn't do that with all Windows sh

I'm trying to understand some of the principles of the keyboard focus. Let’s suppose I have six application windows open. I have three Chrome windows open, two Word document windows open, and one File

Adrian, I imagine it would be helpful if F8 worked in other applications were there is text, like browsers. Also, F8 can only select one sentence worth of text at a time. If there were 2 techniques av

Cynthia, F8 in Word is interesting. Repeatedly pressing F8 will select the word, sentence, paragraph, of whole document the cursor is in. It's called extended selection mode. It's not a JAWS command.

Is there a keystroke to select the text from the cursor to the end of sentence? There are commands to select text from the cursor: to the end of the next word, shift + control + right to the end of th

Hi Udo, I'm a bit unclear about the difference between a voice profile and a voice alias. But it would be great to have some distinct voice dedicated to the pane. For your first question, when pressin

Maybe let suggestions@... know about your idea, Noah. If the feature would save you a few steps, it's an improvement to the usability of the product.

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But it would still be helpful to have explanation of why the problem might be happening. Maybe the webpage changes something about object with the virtual cursor and JAWS gets lost and goes back to th

In another thread it was noted that sometimes in Chrome, JAWS loses focus or the focus suddenly jumps to the beginning of the page. I've noticed this too but don't have an idea of why it is happening.