Speaking with JAWS

[Craig McPherson]

thanks Ron; I will pass this along.
Craig McPherson
On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Ron Southwick wrote:

>> 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
>
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