[jawsscripts] Re: Reading in background

  • From: The dark count <darkcount1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:35:27 -0800

Not at all Travis.
It would be like taking the invisible buffer used in applications like 
qwitter to a new level.
And you are quite right, it would be quite an asset in job settings 
where split screens are used which can't be framed etc. currently.




D C

On 12/27/2011 11:22 AM, Travis Roth wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone seen this new "background reader" feature that ZoomText has?
> http://www.aisquared.com/blog/2011/11/zoomtext-10-feature-leak-background-re
> ader/
>
> I have thought before that something like this would be nice in JAWS but
> have never been quite sure how to make it practical, since JAWS is so speech
> oriented itself.
> A couple of possibilities I can think of work flow wise would be to have
> reading in background, and then that interrupted when the user requests
> information from JAWS. But be able to read in background when the user is
> doing nothing or is typing...
>
> Another option I thought about is reading in background while what the user
> is currently doing is silenced and is portrayed using braille alone.
> > From a JAWS scripting perspective I am not sure if this is technically
> possible to silence JAWS in a specific app while having speech come from say
> the default scripts?
> But it would possibly be the most effective workflow wise as the user would
> be using two senses to gather information.
>
> Anyways, I am throwing this out in case someone else has also considered it
> in the past and has some ideas for consideration...
>
> -Travis
>
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