Hello to the List, I am Eric Damery, the Product Manager for JAWS and have been reading some of the posts recently. While I don't have the time to answer or comment on everything, I will try to on some of these topics such as this NumPad subject.
The ability to toggle numlock on and off letting you use the Number Pad as both a Number pad and Screen Reading Keys has always been a plus in JAWS I think. As many of you mentioned, inputting numbers from the NumPad is much easier for many than the number row, yours truly included. I especially appreciate the message that requested an option in JAWS to stop turning it off by default every time you launch the computer. While this is not in the UI of JAWS today, there is a setting in the default.jcf file under "options" called "Initial NumLock State" which could be changed (set it to number 2) which will tell JAWS to stop changing it at start up. If you are interested in getting that set up now, let us know and I will right down some steps that will help you get this into your user folder correctly. We are still working on the Start Up Wizard feature being expanded in JAWS 9. I will talk with some others here and see about adding this adjustment to the UI in that wizard. I think this will make it fairly easy for anyone to change in the future when they decide on laptop versus desktop and so on. Hope this is helpful. Regards, Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sue garrett Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:08 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Using numberpad for number input Many thanks for this! nope - no survey ...doing some work with young kids (pre-screen reader age) who need to input numbers - the program has its own audio speech so no need for screen readers yet - but the question was because some are of the opinion that you should not teach kids to use the numberpad for number input because it will confuse them when they start using JAWS ...? On your second point about the Numlock default being off, a colleague used just this argument about not using the Numpad for numbers... Any other thoughts ? Many thanks again Rustie On 27/06/07, KURTIS POTTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Taking a survey? > The answer is yes. > At work, my Num Lock is on 98% of the time. I am much more efficient > at entering numerical data using the Num Pad than the top row of > numbers. > In fact, I found it quite annoying when JAWS began turning the Num > lock off. I recommended to FS that this should having JAWS turn off > the num lock should be a user configurable setting. I am hoping they > take it into consideration in the next version of JAWS. > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/27/2007 6:10 AM >>> > Hi all - can you tell me if there is ever a case for using the > numberpad for number input rather than the top row of numbers? would > JAWS users ever put the numlock on and use the numberpad? > Thanks for the help > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the > subject or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the > subject or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
