13 An Introduction to HJPad

This module is entitled “An Introduction to HJPad."  HJPad is a full-featured word-processing program that has been developed by Freedom Scientific.  It is complete with a spell checker and sample dialog boxes that teach you every type of Windows control.


In this lesson, you’ll receive:
* An orientation to the HJPad application layout as an example of how a typical Windows application is laid out

* Practice with the many controls and dialogs that you will encounter while working in the Windows environment.

* Practice with navigating through text within a document.

* Practice with opening and closing documents. 

* Launching HJPad.  Right now the only program I have running is JAWS. The HJPad application is located in the JAWS submenu under programs.  I’ll go ahead and press the WINDOWS LOGO KEY to open the start menu now.

jaws says: Left Windows.  Start menu JAWS.  To navigate, press UP or DOWN ARROW J.

I’ll press the letter P now to move to and open the program sub-menu.

P Accessories submenu A

Now, I’ll press the letter J until I land on JAWS 451, and then press ENTER to open up the JAWS submenu. 

jaws says: J JAWS 451 submenu…

Ok, there we land on the tools submenu.
HJPad is listed in this submenu as “Run HJPad,” so I’ll press the letter R to launch or start the HJPad application now.
  
jaws says: R, leaving menus…

I’ve just launched the HJPad application and my focus is in an empty document. At this point, as JAWS just told us, I’m in a position where I can simply start typing text in this document if I’d like to. But before we do this, I’m going to give you a brief overview of how the HJPad application window is laid out.  The first thing that I would like to do is maximize the HJPad application window.  Currently, the window may be in a restored state so, I’m going to carry out the keyboard commands that will allow me to activate the application control menu and make sure the program is maximized.  The key combination to activate the application control menu is ALT+SPACEBAR and I'll press that now.

jaws says : ALT SPACE, menu active...
 
Now, I’ll press the letter X to make sure the window is maximized.  

jaws says: X leaving menus

Good, now my HJPad application window takes up the entire screen instead of just a portion of it.  We’ve got a lot of different cursors available to us with JAWS, but at this point I’ll discuss two of them, the PC Cursor and the JAWS Cursor.  We’ll be discussing the other cursors available to us in JAWS for Windows in a future lesson. The PC Cursor tracks the application focus and, in the HJPad application, the only place the application focus can go is in the main edit fields, the controls within dialog boxes, or within the menus.

However, we can access any of the components within this window using our JAWS Cursor if we should choose to.  Before I show you how this works, I’m going to type some text in this edit field.  I’m going to type, “This is the text that I’ve typed.”

jaws says: T-h-i-s space i-s space t-h-e space t-e-x-t space t-h-a-t space I-'-v-e space t-y-p-e-d period.

Note that JAWS speaks in a higher tone of voice for each letter that I capitalize.  This pitch can be adjusted in the Uppercase Pitch Increment within the JAWS menus under OPTIONS, which is ALT+O, VOICES submenu, the letter V, and UPPER CASE PITCH INCREMENT, which is an edit field that you can jump right to by pressing ALT+I.

Now I’m going to press the JAWS SayLine key combination that reads the current line.  That key combination is the INSERT+UP ARROW on your num pad.

jaws says: This is the text that I've typed.

As I was typing, a little vertical bar was moving from left to right leaving the newly entered text behind.  This vertical bar is referred to as an insertion point.  When I typed my last character, which was a period, my insertion point immediately moved to the right of that character.  So, of course, I’m at the end of this line, yet, when I press the INSERT+UP ARROW to read the contents of this current line, JAWS reads it regardless of where the insertion point was located.  I’m going to press the HOME key, or NUM PAD SEVEN, to move my insertion point to the beginning of this line where it will be to the left of the first character.  

jaws says: HOME

Now my insertion point is immediately to the left of the T in the word, “this."  I can verify this by pressing NUM PAD FIVE, which is the JAWS command SayCharacter, to read the current character, or the character just to the right of the insertion point.  I’ll do this now.

jaws says: T

I can navigate my text a single character at a time by using the LEFT ARROW or NUM PAD FOUR or the RIGHT ARROW, or the NUM PAD SIX.  And I can also stop on any character and repeat it by pressing the NUM PAD FIVE.  I’m going to press the RIGHT ARROW key to navigate through the rest of the word.

h-i-s

My insertion point is now to the left of the S and if I didn’t understand, for whatever reason, whether or not this was an F or an S, I could have JAWS speak a phonetic equivalent for this character.  Pressing NUM PAD FIVE twice quickly does this.  I’ll do this now.

S, Sierra.

Note that JAWS speaks the word “sierra" to represent the letter S.  Now that phonetic mode is turned on, I can continue to navigate a character at a time until I press the NUM PAD FIVE key again to toggle it off.  I’m going to arrow to the left until I hear the word “tango" that represents the letter T.

India, hotel, tango.

I’ll press NUM PAD FIVE to toggle off phonetic mode.

T

Think of your middle row on your Num Pad as your home row for the number pad.  The number 5, in the middle, has a slight raised bump or line on it.  Keep your middle finger over this key, your pointer finger over the left arrow key (or num pad 4) and your ring finger over the right arrow key (or num pad 6).  To read a character at a time in any document, you will use these keys alone.  We call these keys the “SayCharacter” keys.

Now, if you tuck your thumb under, press down the INSERT key (or num pad zero) and hold it down like a shift key, and then press any of the SayCharacter keys (4, 5, or 6), JAWS will read by words.  We call these keystroke combinations the “SayWord” keys.

The num pad 4 (left arrow) alone moves to and speaks the prior character.  So INSERT+LEFT ARROW moves to and speaks the prior word.

The num pad 5 alone speaks the current character you are on.  So INSERT+NUM PAD 5 speaks the current word.

The num pad 6 alone moves to and speaks the next character.  And thus, INSERT+NUM PAD 6 moves to and speaks the next word.

Press the INSERT key and hold it down, and press NUM PAD 5 to say the current word.  You should hear the word “This.” And I'll do this now.

This
  
Now, press the INSERT+RIGHT ARROW key combination to move to and speak the next word.  Continue doing this until you reach the last word of your sentence.  

is the text that I've typed.

Next, press INSERT+LEFT ARROW to move to the prior word and keep doing this until you return to the beginning of the sentence.

I've that text the is this
 
NOTE:  You can also read a document by pressing UP or DOWN ARROW to read one line at a time.  And remember, the command to perform SayLine to read the current line is INSERT+UP ARROW.  One more keystroke that is helpful if you just want to sit back and listen while JAWS reads the whole document is the SayAll command, INSERT+DOWN ARROW.  We’ll use this later.

Spell mode works very much the same way that phonetic mode does.  While holding down the INSERT key, I’m going to press NUM PAD FIVE twice quickly to hear JAWS spell the word where the insertion point is currently located.

T, h, i, s, 

And, as with phonetic mode, spell mode is a toggle as well.  I’ll use INSERT+RIGHT ARROW to move to the next word and you will hear it spelled as you move to it.

i, s

And again

t, h, e

Now, I’ll press INSERT+LEFT ARROW to move backwards.

i, s, t, h, i, s

Good, now simply press INSERT+NUM PAD FIVE to turn off spell mode.

This

In just a couple of minutes, I’m going to open another document to show you how to move around by larger units of text.  I wanted to keep this first example short to illustrate to those of you who may be starting out in Windows that, when you’re moving around using your typing cursor, or PC Cursor, within the word processing applications you are somewhat limited to working in the edit area of the document.

I'd like to talk a little bit about some of the major areas of the HJPAD application and this applies to most other Windows applications as well. We'll talk about the title bar first.

JAWS provides a keystroke that allows you to read the title of the currently focused upon application                       window.  That keystroke is INSERT+T, as in title.  I’ll go ahead and press this keystroke now.

Title equals document dash HJPad

The next thing we're going to talk about is the menu bar. Press ALT.

Menu bar, File, To navigate press left or right arrow, ALT F

And you recall we did this when we examined the JAWS Window itself and now I'm going to right arrow and cycle through the various menu items.

Edit ALT E
View ALT V
Insert ALT I
Format ALT O
Tools ALT T
Help ALT H

And there's the silent spot where JAWS goes and that's the application control menu and if I press RIGHT ARROW one more time I should land on File again.

File ALT F

Each menu bar item has an associated pull-down menu.  So, you can think of the menu bar as one control that you may navigate, using your LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys and the associated pull-down menus as a different control that you navigate vertically using your UP and DOWN ARROW keys.  I’m going to activate the file pull-down menu by pressing ENTER now.  

Enter Menu active new dot dot dot, control plus N.  To move through items, press UP or DOWN ARROW.  N.

This gives me six pieces of information.
* First of all, that the file menu has been activated.
* Second, the first item in my menu, which is “new”, is currently selected.  This allows me to begin a new document.
* Third, the words “Dot, dot, dot" represent ellipses, which implies that, if I were to press ENTER right here, I would be brought into a dialog box that would ask me for more information.
* Fourth, CTRL+N is the quick key command that immediately activates the “new dialog” from the main application window, making it unnecessary to go into the menu system at all.
* Fifth, JAWS gives me a brief tutor message explaining how to move in this menu.
* And sixth, JAWS announces that, while in this menu, just pressing N would activate the "New" command.

Not all menu items have quick key commands.  Quick key commands will vary from application to application depending on how the programmers of that application write their program code.  I’m going to now exit the menu system by pressing ALT key.

Leaving menus

Another thing that you'll find in most windows may be one or more tool bars (or sometimes called “button bars”) and in some cases, ruler bars (we’ll talk about these with the JAWS cursor).  Most people who use a mouse will use these as shortcuts so they don’t have to go into the menus.  We can usually accomplish the same tasks as tool bar buttons with keyboard commands and get those tasks done faster than a person using a mouse.

Another thing we're going to talk about is the edit area, which is the main area of the screen, in this case where we are typing. And one final area of most windows programs is the status bar. We can read that with the command INSERT+NUM PAD PAGE DOWN.

for help, press F1 

The status bar will often contain important information about where your focus is.  This could be line and page number, or information about what a menu item or dialog box control will do if you activate it.  INFO IS NOT ALWAYS THERE;IT  DEPENDS ON THE PROGRAM AND HOW WELL WRITTEN IT IS. 

So you just heard JAWS say, "for help, press F1." And one other item that I might mention on most windows you'll find scroll bars. These are usually vertical, sometimes horizontal, on the side or bottom of screen.  You generally won’t be using these with screen reading software, but just know that they are there as you may hear terms when reading with the JAWS cursor like “scroll up symbol, or scroll right symbol”.

As mentioned earlier, the PC Cursor has limitations as to where it can move.  However, the JAWS Cursor does not have this restriction because remember, the JAWS Cursor emulates mouse pointer movement, and you can move the mouse virtually anywhere you’d like to on the computer screen.  I’m going to turn on the JAWS Cursor now by pressing my NUM PAD MINUS.

JAWS cursor

Sometimes, the JAWS cursor may be within another window (for example, the task bar is a separate window from the application you may be in), so it's a good idea to route JAWS to PC to make sure the JAWS cursor is where the PC cursor is. The keystroke to route JAWS to PC is INSERT+NUM PAD MINUS. I'm going to go ahead and press that now. 

Route JAWS to PC

This is a good idea as you always know where your PC cursor focus is. Its usually always on the window you are working on. Ok, so we've moved the JAWS cursor to where the PC cursor is with the INSERT+NUM PAD MINUS. 

Next, I'm going to turn on my PC cursor with the NUM PAD PLUS key.

PC cursor

And I'm going to do the SayWord command, INSERT+FIVE on the num pad.

This

And we hear that the PC cursor is on the word This. Next, let's turn on the JAWS cursor by pressing the MINUS key on the numeric keypad.

JAWS cursor

Now, let's do a SayWord by pressing INSERT+FIVE on the num pad

This

So now, the JAWS cursor voice has been turned on to let you know that you are using a different cursor. And also notice that both cursors are in the same location in the screen. I'm going to turn on the PC cursor again by press in the NUM PAD PLUS key.

PC cursor

Now, I’m going to press UP ARROW key and what you'll hear is a line of text read and it will stop there. 

This is the text that I've typed.

And you also heard a ding to tell us that we are at the top of the document. If I press that again.

This is the text that I've typed.

I hear the same thing. Let's turn on the JAWS cursor and try this. 

JAWS cursor

First, I'm going to press an UP ARROW.

Graphic 449, graphic 15... and I silenced that because immediately you hear some graphic labels. This is a tool bar of a button bar right above the text in our document. And notice the PC cursor was not able to move there. Now, I’m going to press the PAGE UP to move to the top of the screen with my JAWS cursor.

PAGE UP

Next, I'd like to move to the beginning of this line by pressing the HOME key.

HOME

Now, I can use the same command as we did in a document to read the current line by pressing INSERT+UP ARROW to read the entire contents of the title bar.

Graphic197 document dash HJPad minimize symbol, restore symbol, close symbol. 

Remember when we were exploring the menu bar we landed on the Application Control Menu, which JAWS did not speak.  The JAWS cursor reads this as a graphic, and assigns each graphic with a different number to keep track of the various graphics.  We can label graphics with meaningful names, and will do so in a later lesson.

JAWS speaks a lot of information that we didn’t hear when we pressed INSERT+T to read the title bar.  Usually when you press INSERT+T, the only information that you want to hear is the title of the application that you’re in, or maybe the document that happens to be open at the time.  

Let's look at this title bar. I'm going to use the JAWS cursor and do a current SayWord, which is INSERT+NUM PAD FIVE.

Graphic 197

Next, I'm going to go to the next word with an INSERT+RIGHT ARROW.

Document

And notice I'm on the letter D as I press the letter five on my num pad. 

D

And that it is capitalized by the change in pitch. I'll just simply press RIGHT ARROW

o, c, u, m, e, n, t

And LEFT ARROW to go backwards

n, e, m, u, c, o, D

There I am at the beginning of the word Document. Again, INSERT+NUM PAD FIVE will say this word,

Document

And the next word,

dash

which is INSERT+RIGHT ARROW. And the next word again, INSERT+RIGHT ARROW.

HJPAD

And again

Minimize symbol

Now I've landed on a graphic symbol, which is the minimize symbol. I'm going to do one more next word.

Restore symbol

Another graphic symbol. And one more next word

Close symbol

Now, I'm at the end of the line where the close symbol is. Someone who is using a mouse would point to these graphics and click. We could do the same thing if we wanted to click using the forward slash on the numeric key pad. However, for right now let's not do that. What we're looking at right here is the overall view of how the document or current application running looks. The first line when it is maximized is the title bar. The second line down from the top should be the menu bar. Press the DOWN ARROW now,

Blank
Close
Close

Ok, since we landed on the close symbol I'm going to navigate back over to the word HJPAD by pressing INSERT+LEFT ARROW, which is SayPreviousWord. 

Restore symbol, minimize symbol, HJPad and there we are. Now I'm going to move down and the next line we should hear is the menu bar

 File menu, edit menu, view menu, Insert menu, format menu, tools menu, help menu

The next two lines down are tool bars or button bars. You'll hear a lot of graphic numbers if you let it read so as I down arrow I'll let it read just a little bit then I'll silence it. The idea with leaving these graphics unlabeled is so that we can show you how to label them in a later lesson. I'll press DOWN ARROW now.

graphic 14, graphic 201, graphic 505, graphic 37...and I pressed CONTROL to silence it. So that's our third line on the screen. A tool bar or a button bar. I'll DOWN ARROW one more time.

Graphic 449, graphic 158, Save document button, print document button

Ah and some of those were actually labeled. I'll press DOWN ARROW one more time.

This is the text that I've typed.

And now we are on what would appear to be line five of the screen and you're back over the text of your document. Now, there is no other text below this on the screen. We only typed that one line. So the next thing we should land on is the Status Line.

for help, press F1

And that's the bottem of the screen.

So that is a typical Windows application layout. You start out on top with a title bar, next a menu bar, and depending on the applications various tool bar or button bars, then you generally come to the main body of the application and at the bottom you should have a status bar.

Ok, now I'd like to show you one other thing. On the title bar, a moment ago, we navigated by a word at a time. Let's do a route JAWS to PC, which is INSERT+MINUS.

Route JAWS to PC

Remember, the PC cursor was on the letter T in the word This. So I'll do a SayWord now, INSERT+FIVE on the num pad.

This

And I'm going to navigate over to the right, two words, by pressing INSERT+RIGHT ARROW.

is the

So, now the JAWS cursor is on the word "the" as it pronounces. Now, let's turn on the PC cursor, our PLUS key on the numeric keypad.

PC cursor

And let's do a SayWord there INSERT+FIVE on the num pad.

This

So the PC cursor is still where it originally was on the word "This." 

Now, turn back on the JAWS cursor with your MINUS key on the numeric keypad. 

JAWS cursor

And do a SayWord here with the JAWS cursor using the NUM PAD INSERT+FIVE.

the

So the JAWS cursor is on the word "the" or "the" and the PC cursor is on the word "This." You can also route the PC cursor to the JAWS cursor. That keystroke is INSERT+NUM PAD PLUS. Let's press that now. 

Route PC to JAWS

Now, if I do a SayWord with INSERT+FIVE.

the

The PC cursor is now there where the JAWS cursor was. So this gives you an overview of how to use both the PC and the JAWS cursors. How to navigate with both. Remember, in many cases the text may be visible on the screen, but the PC cursor may not be able to go there. In these cases, you may want to use the JAWS cursor, as we did in this example, to read the text or graphics that might be on the screen. Another thing you may wish to do, from time to time, is to create a new document. When we were in the File Menu we found out that we could create a new document without even going to the menus by pressing the combination, CTRL+N. Let's press that now, but before you do, when you press CTRL+N there's going to be a dialog box that comes up. Since we've typed in text into this document and we have not saved it we're going to get a dialog box asking us whether we wish to save it or not. Let's press CTRL+N now.

CTRL N New Dialog New Document type colon New Document type colon list box Word 6 document One of three To move to an item, press the ARROW keys

The default for HJPAD is rich text document, which is the second item down in this list. So I'm going to press DOWN ARROW.

Rich Text Document

Just below that just for your information is Text Document. But for now press ENTER to activate a new document in Rich Text Format style.

Enter HJPAD dialog. Save changes to document Yes button. To activate press SPACEBAR, ALT Y

For now we don't need to save this so I'm going to press RIGHT ARROW to move to the word No.

No button. To activate, press SPACEBAR, ALT N

And I'll go ahead and press SPACEBAR now.

SPACE edit. Type in text.

Now, we're in a blank document. A new document that we've just created and I'll do a SayLine, INSERT+UP ARROW, to see if there's any text there.

Blank

All we hear is "blank." So this is how you create a new document. And this convention is true for most Windows word processing programs.

Now that we have a good basic understanding of how the HJPad application is laid out, let’s go ahead and use that open dialog to open a larger document.  This is going to enable me to demonstrate three things to you.

1.  In-depth look at that open dialog because you’re going to encounter a very similar, if not identical, dialog box in many Windows applications.

2.  I’m going to show you how to locate and open a document from within the JAWS manuals, ENU sub-directory.

3.  And finally, I’m going to show you how to move and read in larger units of text than we have so far. Let's activate the open dialog by pressing CTRL+O.  

Control O, open dialog, file name, colon edit.  Type in text, ALT+N.

We’re being prompted for a file name and, if we knew the path and the file name that we wanted to open, we could type it in here.  I’m going to press TAB to move to the next control.

TAB, files of type colon combo box, bridge text format, left paren star dot RTF dot right paren.  One of four.  To change the selection, use the arrow keys.  ALT+T.

Here we’re placed in a combo box, more specifically in a “files of type" combo box from which we may select the type of file we’d like to open.  We hear that the first item in this combo box is RTF, which stands for “rich text format”.  So, this combo box allows us to narrow our search based on the selected item.  If I kept this item selected and tabbed over to the list view that we’re going to encounter in just a few seconds, I would see that the only items that appear within that list view all have an RTF extension.  I don’t want that to be the case here; I’d like to view all documents within that list view.  This being the case, I can either arrow down to the choice “all documents”, or navigate in this combo box with first letter navigation by simply pressing the letter A.

A, all documents, left paren star period, star right paren.

Now I’m going to press TAB to move to the next control.  

TAB, open button.  To activate, press SPACEBAR.  ALT+O.

The open button is activated either upon selecting an item from within that list view that we’re going to come to and then pressing ENTER, or by entering a document name in the edit field that we first came into in this dialog and pressing ENTER on that.  Obviously, you can see that it’s not necessary to TAB to this open button every time we want to open a document.  I’m going to press TAB to get to the next control in this dialog.

TAB, cancel button.  To activate, press SPACEBAR.

There’s the cancel button that will get us out of this dialog without doing a thing.  Pressing ESCAPE in a dialog box will also perform the same function as the cancel button, closing the dialog box without saving any changes.  I’m going to press TAB again.

TAB, look in colon combo box, graphic 540, My Documents.  Two of two.  To change the selection, use the arrow keys.  ALT+I.

Note if you hear graphic numbers on your computer, they may be different depending on how your resolution is set and your color depth. So if you do hear different graphic numbers don't worry about let's just move on with the lesson.

“My Documents” is the default folder for storing files that you're saving or opening in HJPad.  JAWS also told us that we could quickly jump to this "Look In" section of the dialog box at any time by pressing ALT+I.  From "Look In" we can select drives or folders.  I’m going to press TAB to move to the next control.

TAB, list view, not selected graphic 923, one of seventy.  To move to items, use the arrow keys.

In the previous combo box I told you that you could view either folders or drives within that combo box.  In this list, you can view either folders or individual files.  The sub-folders of a particular folder will be listed first in alphabetical order in this list view, followed by the individual files, also listed in alphabetical order.  

I'll press TAB one more time.

TAB.  Filename colon edit.  Type in text.  ALT+N.

This takes us back to the "Filename" field, where we can enter the name of the file we'd like to open.  The document we need to open isn't located in My Documents however.  Instead, it’s in the JAWS40 folder, in a sub-folder manuals\enu.  

There are two ways we could locate this folder.  The first way would be to press ALT+I, and press DOWN ARROW until drive C was chosen.  You would then press ENTER.  Next, you would press TAB, and choose JAWS40 from the list of folders in drive c.  After pressing ENTER again, you would choose the folder Manuals, and press ENTER.  You would then DOWN ARROW to the Enu folder, and choose it by pressing ENTER.  Finally, you'd get to the list of files from which you could choose the one you wanted, and open it by pressing ENTER.

That first way can be rather long, as you saw, but this is ideal if you're not sure where your file is located.  However, if you do know your filename and its path, there's a quicker way.  The file we want to open is called KEYSTROKES.TXT.  So, the full path of this file would be C:\JAWS40\MANUALS\ENU\KEYSTROKES.TXT.  Typing in this full filename and pressing ENTER would open that file for us.  Or, if we just wanted to look in the C:\JAWS40\MANUALS\ENU folder, we could simply type that path in without a filename, and then press SHIFT+TAB to examine the list of files that appear there.

This "Filename" edit field will even let us choose which type of file we want to see in our list of files.  We saw how to choose this from the "Files of type" list, but how can we change it here?  All we have to do is type an asterisk, the SHIFT key and number EIGHT on your typing keyboard, a period, and the file extension you want.  For example, to only look for text files which have the "txt" extension, you'd type, "*.txt" and press ENTER.  To search for all files, which is the choice we made, you'd type "*.*" followed by ENTER.

OK, let's open that file I was talking about.  I'm going to type in its path and filename right here, and press ENTER.

C:\JAWS40\MANUALS\ENU\KEYSTROKES.TXT

ENTER, HJPad dialog, save changes to document question, S button.  To activate, press SPACEBAR.  ALT+Y.

N, edit.  Type in text.

Here we’re back in our HJPad application and we’re placed in our edit field.  I’m going to read the current line with the SayLine command for JAWS, INSERT+UP ARROW.

Desktop Keystrokes

The first thing we hear is, “Desktop Keystrokes."  I could either arrow UP and DOWN through this document a single line at a time or, if I wanted to view it in more detail, I could use the read by character or read by word commands that we learned earlier.  If I just want to view whatever text is on the screen I can use the JAWS SayAll command, INSERT+DOWN ARROW (number TWO on your num pad). 

Activating this command tells JAWS to read all the text in our document edit field from the insertion point all the way down to the bottom of the current document within that edit field.  This command assumes that your PC Cursor is the currently active cursor.  Remember, the JAWS or mouse pointer is not restricted to our document edit field.  I’m going to go ahead and press INSERT+DOWN ARROW now, but I’m not going to have JAWS speak the entire screen of text.  In the interest of saving time, I’m going to press CTRL shortly after I press my say all command and this will tell JAWS not only to stop speaking, but to leave my insertion point on or near the last word that I heard spoken.  I’ll press the say all command now, and shortly thereafter, I’ll press CTRL to silence speech.

Desktop Keystrokes
For Reading Text:
Say Character		NUM PAD 5
Say Prior Character		LEFT ARROW
Say Next Character		RIGHT ARROW

I pressed CTRL to silence speech and our insertion point is just to the right of the…  Use SayCharacter & SayWord to investigate where you stopped.


So, if my purpose for stopping JAWS from reading was to answer the telephone for example, or maybe I wanted to review a certain line of text in more detail, pressing CTRL while reading is in progress allows us to conveniently stop speech, do what we need to do, and then resume reading by simply pressing the say all command again.  I’m going to return my insertion point back to the top of this document, by pressing a standard Windows key, CTRL+HOME.

Top of file, Desktop Keystrokes.

This time, I’m going to do a “say all" except, instead of pressing CTRL to silence speech, I’m going to press RIGHT SHIFT to skip ahead a line at a time.  This makes it easy to quickly fast forward through a text document when we want to move on to the next line.  The name of the feature is actually called “SayAllBy."  By default, “SayAllBy " is set to lines, with no pauses in between.  I’m going to go ahead and press the “SayAll" command now and each time I press the RIGHT SHIFT key, I’m going to say “now.”

Demonstrate moving ahead by several units and then stop.

I pressed CTRL to silence speech.  So, you can see that this is a great way to quickly skip through a document. You can also use LEFT SHIFT to perform the opposite action, that is, to rewind through the text while it is reading in “SayAll” mode.

While using the SayAll command, we can also temporarily speed up or slow down the reading speed by pressing the PAGE DOWN or PAGE UP keys respectively.  Let's try out this command now.  I'll press INSERT+DOWN ARROW, and demonstrate.  Each time I make a change, I'll say, "Now."  

SayAll, PAGE DOWN.
CONTROL
CONTROL+HOME
SayAll, PAGE UP
CONTROL

When using the Say All Command, we can select whether we want JAWS to say all by line, sentence, or paragraph.  This setting can be changed in one of two places, from within the JAWS verbosity dialog, which we are going to do here in just a minute, or from within the JAWS configuration manager, which we’ll visit in a later section.  I’m going to press INSERT+V to activate the JAWS verbosity dialog now.

Adjust JAWS verbosity dialog, list box, user verbosity dash beginner level, 1 of 9.  Use the arrow keys to select an item.  Press the SPACEBAR to toggle between the choices.

Now I’m going to DOWN ARROW through this list until I get the “say all by option” choice.

Typing echo dash none.
Screen echo dash highlighted.
Graphics verbosity dash all graphics.
ANSI character verbosity dash no ANSI.
Say all by dash line without pauses.

Pressing SPACEBAR is going to cycle me through the available options for this selection.

Space, say all by dash sentence.
Space, say all by dash paragraph.
Space, say all by dash line with pauses.
Space, say all by dash line without pauses.

Those are our four options, "say all by line without pauses" being the default option.  I’m going to switch it to “say all by sentence."  I’ll press SPACEBAR.

Space, say all by dash sentence.

Now, to save, I'll press ENTER.  

ENTER.  Keystrokes dot txt dash HJPad.  Edit.  Type in text.

Remember that the change I made in the verbosity dialog is only a temporary one, and will be erased once I leave HJPad.  Also, this change will be lost even if I only leave HJPad temporarily to switch to another window.

Another fact to realize is that changing the reading mode to sentence in this document would actually have no effect on how JAWS reads, since commands written here are not terminated with a period.  JAWS uses the period or similar punctuation to determine when a sentence ends.  Therefore, in this document, it would be more logical to change this setting to "read by line with pauses."

Open your verbosity list again with INSERT+V.

Press down arrow to the item “Say all by sentences” again.

I'll press SPACEBAR several times to switch this to "read by lines with pauses," and then press ENTER to save and exit.

SPACE, SPACE, SPACE.  Say all by lines with pauses.
ENTER.  Keystrokes dot txt, HJPad edit.  Type in text.

I’ll return my insertion point back to the top of this document by pressing CTRL+HOME.

Top of file, Desktop Keystrokes.

Now I’m going to press INSERT+DOWN ARROW to perform the “SayAll” command, and this time you’ll notice that, where before there were no pauses, they now occur at the end of each line.  

Desktop Keystrokes
For Reading Text:
Say Character		NUM PAD 5
Say Prior Character		LEFT ARROW
Say Next Character		RIGHT ARROW
Say Word			INSERT+NUM PAD 5

I pressed CTRL to silence speech.  PAGE DOWN, or NUM PAD THREE, is a Windows keystroke that will advance your insertion point 25 lines at a time.  That is, move it 25 lines closer to the bottom of your document.  PAGE UP, or NUM PAD NINE, does the opposite, that is, brings you 25 lines towards the top of your document.  This is provided that your PC Cursor is the active cursor.  Remember, the PC Cursor tracks the application focus.  In the case of HJPad, our insertion point is the active cursor within that document edit field.  Pressing the PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN keys while the JAWS Cursor is active, will either move your mouse pointer to the top, or the bottom of the current screen.  Also remember, the JAWS Cursor emulates mouse pointer movement, so it is not restricted to our document edit window.  So if you’re ever moving within a document and you notice that you can read things like the title bar and the tool bars, you hear a different voice reading, and you’re not able to advance to the next screen in your document, this is a telltale sign that you’ve got your JAWS Cursor active.  When this happens, you can activate the PC Cursor by pressing NUM PAD PLUS.  I’ll go ahead and do that now.

PC Cursor.

Located immediately above the PLUS key is the MINUS key, which is the JAWS Cursor.  I’ll go ahead and press that now.

JAWS Cursor.

Note the distinctly different voices for each cursor.  These voices are intentionally set different by default.  However, they are modifiable by the user.  I’m going to turn my PC Cursor back on.

PC Cursor.

The two JAWS keystrokes that I’d like to show you now will allow you to either read from the beginning of a line up to the location of the insertion point, or from the insertion point to the end of the line.  Read from the beginning of the line to the insertion point by pressing INSERT+HOME.  Read text from the right of the insertion point all the way to the end of the line by pressing INSERT+PAGE UP.

To illustrate this, first, make sure you’re in the middle of the line somewhere.
ILLUSTRATE
SayLine
Home
NextWord
NextWord
SayWord.
Demonstrate INSERT+HOME.
Demonstrate INSERT+END.

At this point, I’m going to ask that you take a little time to navigate our KEYSTROKES.TXT document using the techniques that we learned in this lesson before moving on to the next lesson.

When you are finished with practicing in this document, press the Windows keystroke to close just the document, but not the program itself, as we will continue using HJPad for several more lessons.  If you intend to continue with the lessons, press CONTROL+F4 now and when you get the prompt that asks if you want to save the changes, just say NO, by pressing TAB to move to the “No” button and then pressing SPACEBAR.

End of "An Introduction to HJPad”.



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