Moderated Clever dictionary hacks or clever tricks?
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Mark
Does anyone have clever dictionary hacks or cool tips they can share? I was getting frustrated with all the extra verbiage with JAWS + Q. It would announce a lot more than the app name. I made some dictionary entries so now I only hear the app name, like Chrome, Word, Outlook.
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Adrian Spratt
Mark,
You inspired me to eliminate some frustrating verbiage, but it involved an intermediate step. I have more than one inbox because I have more than one email address. So each time I open one of them, not only does JAWS say “Outlook,” but it recites my entire email address as well.
I first wrote out the terms in the “add” field of the JAWS dictionary and then a replacement term. It didn’t do the job.
So here’s the extra step. I opened JAWS speech history with insert-spacebar, then h. I found a line with the annoying text and copied it. I pasted that into the “Add” field, and this time the replacement worked. Even though JAWS wasn’t verbalizing a hyphen, it was there.
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Mark
Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2022 8:31 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Clever dictionary hacks or clever tricks?
Does anyone have clever dictionary hacks or cool tips they can share? I was getting frustrated with all the extra verbiage with JAWS + Q. It would announce a lot more than the app name. I made some dictionary entries so now I only hear the app name, like Chrome, Word, Outlook. |
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Mark
To make the Alt + Tab experience better, I added entries to the default dictionary file make the application name appear before the window name. This only works for frequently encountered application windows.
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