Speaking with JAWS

[Ron Southwick]

> Does anyone know how JAWS interfaces with Panorama? Had experience using 
> with Panorama?

If you have access to XP, there is a demo you can try. Since I had time
today, I downloaded it to try it. 

Upon opening Pan, it tells me "Panorama 4.0.2" It does not recognize my
Dvorak keyboard layout because it reported that I pressed CTRL-S (which is
the key I hit, but it operates as CTRL-O), but Pan opened the "Open" dialog
like it should have.

I opened a Pan file (to the datasheet) and it read the data in the cell that
was active.

If I tab through the datasheet, it just says "Tab" each time, and when I
press "Enter" at the end, it tell me "Enter", then reads the name of the
database as reported in the window's title bar.

If I cursor arrow through the datasheet, it will read whatever cell I stop
on. That is, if I arrow through fast enough, I can skip through without
hearing anything until I stop. If I arrow and pause, it will read what is in
the cell until I arrow out of it. Note that it only reads what is VISIBLE in
the cell. A cell that held the contents "Gaming Headset" only read "Gaming
He" if it was so narrow that was all that was visible. I could not find a
way to open a cell in multiple-line mode and have it read what was there,
but with more time there may be a way.

I wrote a procedure that said right right right downrecord and assigned it
CTRL-8.  Pressing CTRL-8 made it speak "Control-eight" and it then read the
contents of the cell where it ended up.

I changed the procedure to switch from the datasheet to a procedure window.
It reported "Control-eight" and then read the name of the newly active
window, but for some reason it also then read the data in the active cell of
the data sheet it was just leaving.

When I spelled the name of the window wrong and got the Panorama dialog
"Window name does not exist", it read the name of the error window
("Panorama 4.0.2") but NOT the error in the window. It told me to press
space to activate the item, which just cleared the window.

Clicking on a menu puts it into "Menu mode"  - it reads the name of the
menu, the first item in the menu, and tells you to use up or down arrows. It
reads the menus as you navigate up or down.

I made a form with a button, but I could not find a way to navigate to it to
have it tell me that I was there to click on it.

I'm sure there is a lot more you will want to know, but maybe that will get
you started.

Ron Southwick