[Trainer-talk] Controlling JAWS with a Braille Display

[Wayne Merritt]

Nancy,
When looking on the Freedom Scientific website, I found the HTML
format of the Focus 40 Blue mmanual at the following link:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/documentation/Focus40-Blue/Focus-40-Blue-Online-Users-Guide.htm

If you look at the tables for certain keystrokes, you will see that in
order to simulate the Alt with Function 4 keystroke, you need to use
two sets of commands on the Focus. It can be done, but not as easily
as simply pressing Alt F4 on the regular keyboard. I usually go to the
keyboard for these types of commands, but I suppose that someone could
get super efficient and be able to do everything from the display. It
seems like a long way around the issue to me, but then again there are
only so many keys on the Focus display.

Hth,
Wayne

On 7/8/14, Nancy Vanderbrink via Trainer-talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Was looking through the documentation in the JAWS help file yesterday
> because I'd like to do more with my braille display, like control jaws with
> it, rather than just using it as a device for reading.
> So, here's a basic question, I think anyway, I had a bit of a difficult time
> understanding the concept of how to connect different parts of a keystroke
> together in order to perform them.
> I've got a focus 40 blue, the newer model, and am running jaws 15 on a
> Windows 7 machine, the one keystroke I could not figure out or find
> documentation for was, alt f4, escape made sense, but I couldn't find alt
> f4.  I'd also like to know how to perform an f6 so that I can move from
> Payne to Payne in both windows explorer as well as word 13, etc.
> If any of you are focus braille users and use it to control jaws, if you
> could offer some tips that you've found helpful on top of the keystroke, I'd
> appreciate it.  Now that I know how to alt tab, that will help a lot.
> On this subject, have any of you used it with windows 8?  Any suggestions on
> that as well?
> Thanks!
> Nancy V
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