[gui-talk] JAWS 10

[tribble]

I was going to do that as I didn't like auto forms mode the first time i 
tried it, but after playing with it a while I found auto forms to be very 
useful. It takes a bit of reflex action to prevent your fingers from doing 
things the old way, but one nice thing about having forms mode automatic is 
that you clearly identify the text between the form controls. Before you had 
to explicitly turn off forms mode to catch a glimpse of the text, but in 
auto mode it is all there in plain view.  This also obviates the need for 
jaws to apply heuristics to guess what text to use as the label on a form 
control.
I wonder why it took them so long to put in auto forms.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] JAWS 10


If you want to go back to the way things were without the automatic
forms mode, you can go into the Verbosity dialog in IE with Insert and
V, and then press A until JAWS announces, "Auto forms mode," and use
space to toggle it off. This way, you will have to press enter when
you want to get into forms mode, though the sound effects will still
be there. this might help someone who's new to 10 though.

Wayne

On 1/15/09, tribble <lauraeaves at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The most startling change going from any version to jjaws 10 is that forms
> mode is automated -- you will hear little sound effects on a web page when
> you enter or leave form fields as you arrow around. This can be a little
> confusing at first, but after a few days of it I was hooked -- I really 
> like
> this feature.
> Yes, everything in jaws 7,8,9 is carried over into 10. 10 also has the
> tandem feature that allows you to surrender control to your tech support
> person who takes over and issue jaws commands as if he/she were you.
> There have been lots of fixes since 6 -- but I upgrade every time a new
> version comes out so I don't remember what all has gone in. That is quite 
> a
> large span of releases.
> Anyway, good luck and enjoy... Don't let the shark byte.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave W" <kosi123 at earthlink.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:47 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] JAWS 10
>
>
> OK, I have the JAWS 10 version in my hands ready to install.  I am 
> currently
> using Jaws 6 a couple questions please:
>
> Since I haven't updated from 6 to 10 will I get all those newer versions 
> (7,
> 8, 9 )  when I install 10?
>
> What major changes can I expect or have to get use to?
>
> I like most people don't like change (except my underwear)  so is it going
> to be a lot of changes or can I expect to have everything mesh and I will
> learn the changes as I use it?
>
> Thanks and I will probably be asking more questions after I install this.
>
> Dave
>
>
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