Hello Dan,
While I haven't done this in a very long time, you are correct about using
frames to silence parts of the screen. Well, it worked in much earlier
versions of JAWS anyway.
I don't remember how it is done but the documentation should refresh the
memory.
Dale leavens.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Rossi" <d...@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "JAWS Users" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 9:37 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Silencing part of the screen.
This is pretty obscure, so not sure anyone will have a suggestion, but
here goes.
Firstly, this issue is occurring essentially in a terminal window, IE,
when I am running in Cygwin, a linux-like command-line interface on a
Windows box.
On all of my machines, except for my newest 64 bit Windows 7 box, I have
no problem. When I am using my email client, Pine, it shows the first
screen of information, when you hit the space bar, it shows the next
screen full of text. The top line of the screen stays mostly the same,
showing the Pine version, message number, and a couple of other things, it
also shows the percentage of the email that has been displayed so far. The
bottom couple of lines of the screen is a command menu of sorts.
In all of my boxes, except for the Windows 7 box, when I hit the space
bar, JAWS just reads whatever changed on the screen. So, it doesn't
reread the top line of the screen, except for the percentage which
changes. And, it doesn't read the bottom two lines of the screen.
On my windows 7 box, when I hit the space bar, it rereads the entire first
line of the screen. This is rather annoying.
I am not sure why the difference, since I am running the same version of
JAWS on all the boxes.
I have never messed around with JAWS frames, but am wondering, can I set
up a frame that encompasses most of the first line of the screen and then
sets it to silent mode or something like that. This is definitely
reminiscent of VocalEyes back in the day.
Any suggestions on how to go about this?
Thanks.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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