[gui-talk] Fwd: Jaws FAQ: Can I stop Jaws reading columns in a list view?

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    Daniel Keogh DKeogh at quantumtechnology.com.au
 To:      vip-l at freelists.org

CUSTOMIZING LIST VIEWS WITH JAWS

You've probably encountered a situation where you have a list view with
multiple columns. An example of this is in Windows Explorer if you have
your view settings set to details. Here you will have 4 columns: Name,
Size, Type and Date modified. What if you only want to hear the file
name and size though? In this example you could just tell Windows which
columns to display and which ones to leave out. That won't always work
for every program. Some programs won't let you customize the display to
that extent. Jaws will let you customize what you hear regardless of
what's on the screen. We'll use Windows Explorer here as an example
since it's a program every Windows user has access to regardless of the
version of Windows you have.

To go to Windows Explorer hold down the Start button and press the
letter E. For Windows XP users you'll probably land on what's called a
Tree View. Press the tab       key until Jaws says "folder view list
view". For Windows Vista and Windows 7 users you'll already be in the
right place.

Navigate to your C drive and press the End key to move down to the
bottom of the list. This should land you on a file rather than a folder.
If you don't already have it set up you need to change the view to
Details.

1.	Press Alt V to go the View menu.
2.	Arrow down to Details and press enter. Alternatively you can
press the letter D once you're in the View menu to speed up the process.

Now that Windows is set up we can configure Jaws. As in my previous
posts I'll refer to the Jaws key. This is usually the Insert key unless
you have changed the keyboard layout. If you're using Laptop layout then
it's the Caps Lock. 

To customize a List View press Jaws Key and F2. This will take you to
the Run Jaws Manager dialog. Arrow down until you hear "Customize List
View". Now press enter.

The Customize List View dialog consists of a List of the available
headers and several buttons. When you first enter it you'll be on the
header list. This is the columns you currently have available. By
default they're all set to "Speak Column". This means that jaws will
speak the information in this column if there is any. To change this,
just press the space bar. You can use your arrow keys to move through
the list and change the ones you need to.

Pressing the Tab key moves you to a button labelled "Move Up". Pressing
Tab again moves you to a "Move Down" button. These 2 buttons allow you
to change the order Jaws reads the columns. This does not change the
order they appear on the screen.

Pressing Tab again gives you a "Toggle Speech" button. This has the same
function as pressing the Space bar on the list of headers.

Tabbing again takes you to a set of radio buttons. You can change the
selection by pressing up and down arrow. These control whether Jaws
speaks the headings as well as the information for each column. You have
4 options:

1.	"Ignore". This will ignore any heading and only speak the
information in the column.
2.	"Speak Custom Text or Header". If the heading makes no sense to
you or you wish to change it you can enter a different text label to be
spoken. This option will speak the custom text if there is any. If not
it will use the default column heading.
3.	"Speak Custom Text and Header". This will speak both custom text
if any and the displayed column heading.
4.	"Custom Text". This will only speak custom text ignoring any
displayed heading.

Pressing Tab again will move you to an Edit field. This is where you can
type in the custom text for the heading currently selected in the list.

Tabbing again will move you to the Select Voice Alias button. This
allows you to change the voice used to speak column headers or custom
text.

There is also another page of options available in this dialog for
Braille users. The options are virtually the same as for the Speech
settings.
 
Regards,
Danny Keogh
Quantum Technology
www.quantumtechnology.com.au

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