[nfbcs] JAWS June update has support for Notepad++, PuTTY, and SecureCRT

[Glen Gordon]

Hi, All,

Although I'm about to mention several features in terms of speech, be assured that Braille supports them as well.

Notepad++ is an extremely powerful open source editor for text files, source code, HTML and lots of other things. It's not as fully featured as an IDE like Visual Studio, but it's far more functional than just plain Notepad. Starting with the June update, JAWS properly supports all the expected Notepad++ editing features, including contracted Braille input.
In addition, when Notepad++ is set to display line numbers, JAWS reads the number prior to the contents of each line. (This can be disabled in Notepad++ Options/Preferences on the Editing page.)
After you've enabled Notepad++ autocompletion (it's off by default), JAWS will automatically read the active suggestion and allow you to arrow up and down through other possibilities.

PuTTY and SecureCRT are both popular terminal emulators. PuTTY is open-source and free. SecureCRT is a commercial product with an impressive list of features.
JAWS support for both of these was badly broken and now works as you'd expect.
The caret tracks correctly and newly written text is automatically spoken.
If you're in an editor and the  auto speaking of text becomes annoying, you can temporarily toggle it off with JawsKey+s. If you want it off permanently, go into SettingsCenter for PuTTY or SecureCRT and set ScreenEcho to something other than Speak All Text.

We hope that many of you will find these features useful. If after experimenting with them you find that additional functionality is needed in these apps, please let us know or reach out to me directly.

Thanks

--Glen

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