Hi, Dennis. I think you are correct that when icons get cut off in reading
it's a function of Windows, not the screen reader. I noticed that when my
husband used my computer for a while JAWS kept not reading the full names of
icons on the desktop. I found that he had used the high contrast settings
in the accessibility settings. I turned this off and went back to the
default windows scheme and all read fine. Unfotunately, the control-num pad
plus combination only seems to work in the Find dialog box and in Explorer
and not other places where files names are truncated as noted elsewhere on
the list.
=Beth=
=Beth Hatch-Alleyne=
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: More enhancements I'd like in JFW verbosity -Reply
>I thought the ellipses on an item was a function of Windows arranging items
>on the screen evenly, not a function of a screen reader? For example, if I
>set "Large Icons" from the View Menu in Explorer, or the Control Panel,
then
>things like Network Neighborhood becomes Network Nei..., regardless the
>current application reading the screen?
>Am I missing something here? Does the screen reader have the capability to
>add the ellipses to the current item when it doesn't think that item can
fit
>the current screen area? How?
>
>Thanks,
>Dennis Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 6:10 PM
>Subject: RE: More enhancements I'd like in JFW verbosity -Reply
>
>
>>I like this idea, being a unix person, I come accross quite a few long
>>filenames that windows and jfw cut off.
>>
>>Regards Nick
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
>>
>>> Another thing that HJ may like to include as a toggle is a feature which
>>> lets the user hear the entire contents of text that is not completely
>>> displayed on the screen. For example, I have a lot of MP3 old time radio
>>> files with very long names by the time the date of the show and the
>show's
>>> title is included. JFW tells me what is on the screen, which generally
>>> results in the filename being trunkated with dot dot dot. However,
>>> Windoweyes and I believe some other screen readers have designed their
>OSM
>>> in such a way that they can access the entire text. Sometimes a user may
>>> well need to know exactly what is being displayed on the screen, hence
my
>>> view that this could be a toggle.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
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>>>
>>
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