[GUI-Talk] Hotkey to start Jaws

[Ben Fulton]

Yes I was able to assign a hot key. I did get a message asking for
administration access, but clicking ok seemed to work. 


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I have jaws-18, and have had some updates and no trouble with the hot key I
assigned (using Windows seven).  However in the written instructions I read
on the web site stated that "insert" the (jaws key) is now used in place of
the control-j.

You can still alt-enter, tabe and assign what you want, tab or shift tab to
"apply" then "ok".  If you don't apply settings where it is needed, you will
loose the settings.

Cordially, Ms. E. Kirtley



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Lee via GUI-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 7:56 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List
Cc: Doug Lee
Subject: Re: [GUI-Talk] Hotkey to start Jaws

My summary of the Ctrl+Alt+J situation to date:

You can manually assign this keystroke to the "JAWS 2018" or similar icon on
your Desktop: Type Alt+Enter on the icon to open Properties, Tab to the
Shortcut Key box, type J or Ctrl+Alt+J, Tab to OK and press Enter. You may
have to go through one or two more dialogs before the assignment is
complete. On office systems, a system administrator may have to do this for
you.

When JAWS is updated though, this setting tends to get wiped out and require
reentry. This is unfortunate but has been true for a while.

In the old days of Windows XP, we could get around the above wipe-out by
creating a Desktop shortcut that ran "net start JFWService" and assigning 
Ctrl+Alt+J to that shortcut. This no longer works in modern Windows
versions,
and I don't know of a replacement for this strategy.

It would be cool if "jaws" in the Windows Run box would run the latest
installed copy. That would allow for a shortcut to be made again that would
not be wiped out by a JAWS update.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:04:40PM +0000, Ben Fulton via GUI-Talk wrote:

Ya, I remember that, for Jaws 13, then I went a few years without an upgrade
and when I got Jaws 18 it didn't work anymore. - Don't know why they changed
it.

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    for years the hot key was alt-control-j, and you can change it by typing
alt-enter (while on your jaws version), then tabbing to hot key and typing
what you want it to be, tab to "apply" and hit the spacebar or enter.  It
has always been that way.

Hope this helps.

Cordially, Ms. E. Kirtley


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Fulton via GUI-Talk
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 9:01 AM
To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: Ben Fulton
Subject: [GUI-Talk] Hotkey to start Jaws


My trick for starting jaws is to hit windows+D followed by J and then hit
enter.
But then I don't keep anything else on the desktop that starts with J.