What's curious in Kimber's case is that after she's removed j from the JAWS 16 shortcut and confirmed that it's gone, control-alt -j still brings up JAWS 16. I can't figure out why that would be.
On creation of the shortcut, which it sounds like Kimber knows what to do, I'd add a little more. Assuming I'm want alt-control-j for JAWS 17, I'd do as Mario suggests and type just j in the edit field. Then, instead of pressing enter or tabbing to OK, I escape out of the dialog. For some reason, this has been the surest way I've found for making the shortcut stick. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Dave Carlson Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 10:43 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Trouble assigning a hot key for jaws 17 Mario, Yes, that's a good point. That way, the actual application is not invoked. Dave Carlson Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario" <mrb...@hotmail.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 07:29 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Trouble assigning a hot key for jaws 17 Kimber, in my experience, when you attempt to assign the hotkey using the control+alt keys, just press the letter because control+alt is the assumed modifier Windows believes you want to use plus the letter you type. for example, you want to use control+alt+j as the hotkey to start JAWS, just press the letter j when you get to the field to assign the shortcut. if you want to use a diferent combination, that's when you have to press all the keys you want. for example, you want to use control+shift+j instead, press all three keys to overide the default of control+alt+ the letter of your choice. hth -------- Original Message -------- From: Kimber Gardner Sent: Saturday, Apr 9, 2016 7:32:17 AM EST To: jaws-users-list Subject: [JAWS-Users] Trouble assigning a hot key for jaws 17 Hi All, I had control-alt-J assigned as my hotkey for jaws 16, but I wanted to reassign it to jaws 17. I went into properties under jaws 16 and deleted the key assignment, only each time I try assigning that key combo to jaws 17 in the property dialogue, instead of assigning the keystroke it starts up jaws 16. When I open the property dialogue under 16, it shows no hotkey assigned. What am I missing? Thanks, Kimber For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
