[gui-talk] Screenreaders

[Steve Jacobson]

Also note that some computers actually have a "hot key" manager or something similar.  Such software may or may not be very accessible, but it might be 
less dangerous to have someone go in there and see if they can disable or change this behavior than having them go into your BIOS settings.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:15:40 -0500, Kris Hickerson wrote:

>Mike, Thanks so much.  I think thhis is part of my problem also.

>Kris

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>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:35 PM
>To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Screenreaders

>Hi, Jaybee.

>More and more PC's these days are being configured such that the function
>keys perform functions analogous to those on a Mac computer. You've seen
>this in the volume/mute function keys. I had the same problem with this
>HPPavillion DV7 laptop.

>The solution is to have a sighted person who knows what s/he is doing go in
>and change the BIOS such that the function keys perform their original
>purpose and the shift key is required to makethem do their Mac-like thing.
>In the BIOS on this computer, it was a simple change to a toggle. There's no
>guarantee that the BIOS on your machine has the capability of reverting to
>the behavior of the function keys you're used to but I bet it does.

>In the meantime, if you have enough hands, holding down the Shift Key while
>pressing the function keys may well bring back the behavior you expect.

>Mike Freeman
> 

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>Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 5:52 PM
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>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Screenreaders

>I wonder if anyone can haelp with what may or may not be a screenreader
>problem?  Here's the situation.  I just purchased a laptop from Dell, and
>JAWS does not read the function keys.  In fact, some of the function keys
>have been set for other use such as volume. Is there any way to change this?

>For example, is there any way to make JAWS read each of the function keys,
>or is there any way to change settings where the function keys are not
>volume, projector etc.?  Thanks for any assistance.  If this quest is
>inappropriate for this list can anyone write off list: jayjohnson66 at att.net?
>"Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old
>aside."  (Alexander Pope) 


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