Category: Geeks r Us
Hi everyone:
I use a net-based database for work. There are several search options. Some of them require me to pick a name, highlight it, and then select it before searching. The regular process of shift and the arrow keys, or spacebar don't work. Could there be a different way to select names? Like maybe with the Jaws cursor? I'm using Jfw 12. The name of the databese is Therap. If there might be a jaws shortcut, please explain in detail. I'm not good at all about using my Jaws cursor. I really need to figure this out. Any suggestions would be very greatly apreciated. Thanks.
If the name happens to be in an edit box you can try control-a for select all which would select everything in that particular box
In a professional setting, I would try and get good at using your reader's review cursor, because there are just a lot of apps that don't have good keyboard focus.
With JAWS you can lock the mouse button and select like that, here I'll show you though I'm sure I'm no good as a trainer you should be able to go from there:
So push route JAWS to PC insert number pad minus button.
Now, as you move around in the window, you are able to explore so find both the start and the end locations, sort of like before you're going to move something heavy in your house, find your path, if you will.
So once you know where start and end both are, you can decide how to get from point A to point B, e.g. next word twice, or down arrow once, or just end to move to end of the line, whatever it takes.
Now you can simulate a drag selection with the mouse.
Push insert and the left button wich is num pad shasl, direct to the right of numlock. JAWS will read out 'Num lock on'.
Now use whatever you figured out to go to point b of your selection. Then press the same insert num pad slash button combination again to unlock it. The text color will have just changed, and you can even push shift with SayAll command or shift insert down arrow to read back the selection. What I usually do here, is then press the right mouse button which is number pad star, the one directly to the right of the slash you just used. Now because your mouse was still over the selection the program you're using knows to present a context menu for that selection. You can turn on your regular system cursor if you want and pick the command you need from that pop-up, be it copy, append or whatever you application does.
I have heard the review cursors can be a challenge, some trainer told me it has to do with something to do with spacial relationships. But honestly, it's not that difficult if you fiddle around with it before you actuall need it. So if you're in a program, even on the web, you can see where the tool bars, menu bar, close button, minimize button, all these controls are located. In an office you may need to tell a sighted person how to do something anyway, once you're not the new person anymore, and someone else is newer. This isn't just us geeks get called upon to explain how to do things.
And the JAWS cursor is quite versatile: in the mid 1990s, I used it all day long on server apps before people had come along to claim it was declared not accessible because you have to look at the window with the review cursors. You'll end up remembering more about your programs if you at least look at the relationships of where things are, and when some things start just reading 'Button, button, button,' as proprietary applications often do, you can use the JAWSCursor to still find your way. I do it a ton, and I've been blind my whole life and never visited a trainer or institution in my early learning of the computer. So I figure if I'm doing it, anyone with actual training as part of their schooling can surely do it just give it a shot.
That didn't occur to me, she is trying to select a name from a list of matches but this could work to, worth trying.