Hi.
Ok I'm a pretty expert jaws user, I'd like to lay this out.
To mute speech, press, depending on keyboard layout, caps lock space,
or, if desktop layout insert+space. Once you heard the click noise,
press s. This turns speech off.
On my lenovo Yoga 2 pro tablet laptop thingy, that takes less than a
second to accomplish. caps lock space, then s turns it off. pressing
that again turns it on just as quickly as it was turned off. On slower
computers it may take a couple of seconds for speech to restart when
toggling it back on. This actually unloads the synthesizer, so if you
use eloquence and someone crashes it, you can often use this to quickly
recover, provided the crash didn't drag jaws down with it.
Secondly, with later versions of jaws that use the settings center
instead of the configuration manager, setting jaws to sleep for specific
applications is ridiculously easy.
Open the game and press insert+6 (same regardless of keyboard layout).
Depending on whether jaws had a configuration file for this game already
it may ask you what you'd like to call the new configuration file. If it
does, just hit enter to accept what it suggested by default. Now you'll
be in the settings center,, focused on an edit box. in that edit box,
type "sleep" without the quotes. Now down arrow until you hear sleep
mode disable. Press space till it says enable. If you really want too
you can space again to make it unload the synthesizer as well, but this
usually is not a good idea if you have a slower computer it will take a
while to get speech back once focus leaves the game, plus, usually, the
speech synthesizer itself doesn't do anything that would actually
interfere with game play, that includes the fact that when jaws is
sleeping, it's not sending stuff to the synthesizer to be spoken, so the
synthesizer sits idle, which is as good as using no resources of your
machine right?
So to summarize, with our Traders of Known Space game, I can launch the
game, and while sitting in the game press insert+6. It asks what I'd
like to call the configuration, I press enter to accept what's already
suggested. Then I type sleep, down arrow twice, press space once, tab to
the ok button and hit enter. That's all. Takes less time to do it now
that I know how to do it so well than it does to describe it. What's
more, if I open Traders of Known Space but I need jaws to speak while in
the game for some reason, I can repeat the exact same steps to bring
jaws out of sleep mode for this application, save in that situation, I
would never need to press enter at first to accept a suggested
configuration file name, as if it's sleeping, it obviously has a
configuration file.
Cheers, Sent with thunderbird 17.0.8 portableOn 7/25/2014 4:54 PM, Nicol
wrote:
Hi tom
Well, in jaws15 you press alt plus windows key plus s to mute the speech but
I don't know if that will remove the keyboard hook while playing games.
I know for sure it mutes speech until you switch focus to another
application.
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From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: 25 July 2014 12:36 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] Screen Readers and Games was the Blind Swordsman
Hi Dark,
That's a good question, and I'm not sure I'm the right person to ask.
I rarely use Jaws any more myself. That said, I do know in the versions of
Jaws I've used I can't just flick speech on and off the way I can with NVDA
or the way you can with Supernova. At least, that has been my experience.
there may be a way to do what you want to do, but I'm just not familiar with
any current Jaws releases to give you an answer without downloading the Jaws
demo, installing it, and playing around with it to find out if what you are
asking is possible or not. In NVDA one can press insert+s until it disables
speech or enables speech which is quick and easy.
Cheers!
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