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 > > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > -- Thanks, D C __________� View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts