Re: Equivalent to Jaw's Screen Echo
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Gene
This comment is based on my recollection and my experimentation now with a
very old version of JAWS. I haven’t used JAWS for a long time and I
haven’t updated it. This needs to be checked or confirmed as the
current behavior.
The description isn’t completely accurate. I can cause either all or
most of the screen to be automatically echoed at times and at other times, only
new or changed text is echoed. I don’t know just when either
happens.
Gene
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From: David Goldfield
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2021 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Equivalent to Jaw's Screen
Echo My only disagreement with Steve’s description is that when you set the JAWS screen echo to “all” it does not automatically speak the contents of the screen. This is not particularly detailed but here is the relevant description taken from the JAWS help system: Screen Echo This option allows you to select what information is echoed when text on the screen changes.
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Steve Nutt
Hi Quentin,
Essentially, it does exactly as described earlier down the thread.
When you enable it, it echoes the whole screen once. Then it monitors for changes and echoes them.
This is very useful for accessibility testing. It’s probably not a mainstream feature that everyone could use, but it would be helpful to have it.
All the best
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Perhaps what would be helpful here would be for someone familiar with the Jaws feature, to please describe how it works for the user? Ok, so I'm a user, I have a program which doesn't seem to be accessible, I launch this feature.... what does it do?
With a number of features, it may be that there is a solution to a problem, and it may or may not be identical to the way Jaws does it, and I think sometimes we get stuck on "this is what Jaws does, I want it to work the same", rather than "this is the problem I'm trying to solve, is there a solution"?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 2:42 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:
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