[gui-talk] Jaws Daisy updates

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Hi Joel --
You can look for the FS reader in the start menu under
programs\freedom scientific\fs reader.
Run that and do a little configuring to indicate whether you want to use 
jaws or have it be self voicing, then open a book on your book shelf. If you 
type control+o you should get a flat list of all the titles.  If your books 
are somewhere other than in the default folder, you need to shift+tab a bit 
and change the folder.  The reader will search all folders under the root 
folder for daisy books.

Now when you have your list of books, just arrow to one and hit enter.  You 
will be in a window with 2 sections -- the navigation section and the text 
section.  You start in the navigation. Here, depending on what kind of daisy 
markup was included in the daisy, you may see page numbers, or chapters, 
etc.  Just select the point where you want to start reading and hit tab and 
you will be in the text pane.  Here you can listen, or search or arrow 
around and set and label bookmarks.
(I use jaws rather than the self voicing. I don't know how different it is 
using SV.)
And there appears to be a way to make annotations, but frankly, I have never 
figured out how that is supposed to work.

Just get in and poke around and it should become straightforward.
HTH and have fun.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 11:55 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] Jaws Daisy updates


Good morning all,
I took the bait when someone on this list announced that a boatload of new
FS instruction files were available, went to my Jaws page by Insert J (I
have Jaws running as a service in the system tray), checked off and
downloaded and, I guess, installed,  a lot of the books listed there.

it took many minutes, during which I was away from the computer and barely
heard what must have been one progress bar after another.

When that stopped, and I sat back down at the computer, there was a dialogue
that said little except that the whole operation had concluded, and offering
an OK button to finish it off.

then it went back to my Outlook Express Inbox and kept reading through all
the email titles in it until I managed to shut it up.

Well, what now? I haven't tried out this stuff in ages. I'm not on
Bookshare, either, so I don't get any practice with Daisy there, either.

So what do I do to bring up these books, one at a time, and look through
them? Where do I find the basic instructions or  how to use the FS Reader?
I'm just staring at my OE Inbox as if nothing had happened, sort of, and
wondering how to get started on self-instruction today.

I know these are awfully basic questions, you guys. Help will be
appreciated.
Joel


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