It was talking about reading the help file in Windows, and I've explained how to. It is not something special for Jaws. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:19 AM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. I have no idea what you're talking about. This isn't a JFW list. Was there a question here? Or what is this all about? On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Please enlighten me. > I never used the Jaws cursor in the new HTML help format under Windows. > Select an item in the tree view, press enter, then press F6 and it will > automaticly start reading that help item. It is a simple HTML file there, > and it works exactly as simple as Internet Explorer. > You don't need the Jaws cursor at all. > > You needed the Jaws cursor only for some bad designed help files in the old > .hlp format. > Now in the new .chm format, you don't have any problems. > > But this doesn't matter too much. Please tell me how to navigate the man > pages. > I type man mv, for example. > It starts to print all the help file, but maybe I want to move with a page > up then down, etc. > > I know this is possible. Thanks. > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:05 AM > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > SNIP > > > You open a window, and it explains you what you should do there. > > > You have to press the space bar to check some checkboxes, to press some > > > buttons, etc, and if you don't know something, press shift+f10 (or the > right > > > mouse button and choose "what's this?" or press F1 to view the help file > > > wich is much much more easier to navigate than the man pages under > Linux. > SNIP > > A fake. > man pages under GNU/Linux are a lot easier to navigate than windows help > pages. > you need to route the jaws cursor to the pc and then fart around trying to > find what you were looking for. > even with the new features in jfw I seriously doubt you could navigate a > help file easier than a man page.. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
