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JAWS for Windows 3.3 features a number of enhancements and improvements to JFW 3.2. To read a description of any of the new features, you may choose one of the links below, or simply scroll down the page. There is a "Top of List" link at the bottom of the page.
The linked topics listed below are new features for JAWS for Windows version 3.3.
Eloquence for JFW has improved its voices. The new voices are easier to understand and will speak much faster, if the user chooses. Wade has been replaced by Reed and is now the default PC cursor. Flo has been replaced by Shelly. To adjust your specific voice settings, go to the JAWS Window and choose one of the dialogs from the Voices menu.
JFW now has the ability to read prior, current, or next by sentence or paragraph in all applications. To try this feature, use the appropriate keystrokes (see below). It will move the cursor either by sentence or paragraph and read the entire unit the cursor has been moved to.
Read Prior Sentence: ALT+UP ARROW
Read Next Sentence: ALT+DOWN ARROW
Read Current Sentence: ALT+NUM PAD 5
Read Prior Paragraph: CTRL+UP ARROW
Read Next Paragraph: CTRL+DOWN ARROW
Read Current Paragraph: ALT+CTRL+NUM PAD 5
Note: When reading with the PC cursor, the document will scroll as you move to bring the entire sentence or paragraph onto the screen so that it is read in its entirety. When reading with the JAWS cursor, the screen will not be scrolled as you move so you may not hear a complete paragraph or sentence if they continue of the screen.
Using Configuration Manager JAWS can be set to speak by line, sentence, or paragraph. This affects the way in which text that is sent to the synthesizer is spoken. This feature can be used to produce more natural speech patterns. You can toggle this feature at anytime without saving it for future sessions of JFW or you can choose to make it a more permanent change by default in either a specific application or in all applications.
Note: Based on your setting of speaking by line, sentence, or paragraph, pressing SHIFT during a SayAll will now jump ahead to the next one. This is also true when listening to messages such as INSERT+F1.
To Activate:
You can toggle it only, without changing the configuration file by using the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog, INSERT+V. In the list of items down arrow to Say All By. Press the SPACEBAR to toggle this item. Then press ENTER to return to your current application.
To make a more permanent change:
Run the Configuration Manager by pressing INSERT+F2 and choosing Configuration Manager from the list.
Note: If you want this to be a default setting for all applications, you should then open the default.jcf file with the keystroke: CTRL+SHIFT+D. Otherwise, it will only take effect in the current application.
Now go to the Set Options menu with ALT+S.
From this menu, choose Text Processing.
From the Say All Group of radio buttons, select either line (the default), sentence, or paragraph.
Press ENTER to close the dialog and then CTRL+S to save the file before exiting Configuration Manager.
In previous versions of JFW, when SayAll was selected, blank lines were not spoken. By default in JFW 3.3 this is still true but the user now can modify a configuration setting to hear the word blank spoken when a blank line appears in a document. If there is more than one blank line, the user will be told how many lines there are.
To Activate:
Run the Configuration Manager by pressing INSERT+F2 and choose Configuration Manager from the list.
Note: If you want this to be a default setting for all applications, you should then open the default.jcf file with the keystroke: CTRL+SHIFT+D. Otherwise, it will only take effect in the current application.
Now go to the Set Options menu with ALT+S.
From this menu, choose Text Processing.
Check the box Say Blank Lines in the Say All Group box with the SPACEBAR.
Press ENTER to close the dialog and then CTRL+S to save the file before exiting Configuration Manager.
Now when you are reading with the SayAll feature, INSERT+DOWNARROW, blank lines will be reported automatically.
Note: If you did not make this change in the Default Configuration file, it will only take effect in that current application.
JFW 3.3 now has the ability to skip ahead by tapping the SHIFT key when reading in SayAll or listening to Help Messages. For example, when reading in SayAll, tap the shift key and you will jump to the next line, sentence, or paragraph and JFW will continue reading from the new location. You may also wish to try this by pressing INSERT+H to hear a JAWS Hot Key Help Message. While it is speaking the list, pressing the SHIFT key will skip ahead to the next item on the list.
The Message Voice is a configurable option used in Scripts that can cause JAWS to use a different voice when it speaks text that does not appear on the screen. An Example of this can be seen in Excel from MS Office 97 or 2000. When moving in a spreadsheet, if you land in a cell that contains a formula, comment, or a hyperlink, the message voice is used to indicate that the cell contains one or more of those items.
To adjust the Message Voice, go to the JAWS Window, Voices menu, and choose Message Voice.
This feature displays Icons from the System Tray in list form so that the user can easily review or change settings.
Note: Provided the Icons contain a ToolTip label, that ToolTip will be displayed in the list even if the graphics had not previously been labeled.
To Activate: Press INSERT+F11.
Note: To have the clock read from the System Tray, press INSERT+F12.
JFW will now, optionally, announce changes in text attributes like capitalization, font size, font style, color, indentation, and others. This feature can be turned on and customized in the JFW Configuration Manager. It will not report changes during SayAll, however when reading by line, word, or character, the JFW message voice will report changes as they occur if this is enabled.
Note: In Windows NT 4.0, Point Size is not reported accurately.
To Activate:
While in an application such as a word processor where you want to check formatting, run the Configuration Manager by pressing INSERT+F2 and choose Configuration Manager from the list.
Now go to the Set Options menu with ALT+S.
From this menu, choose Format Options.
Use the SPACEBAR to toggle Speak Text Formatting on or off.
Once you enable this feature, you can tab through this dialog to choose the various options you want to report when using this feature. Choose the items you wish by checking the associated check boxes. Only the items that are checked will be reported.
The choices include:
Attributes, Font, Point Size, Foreground Color, Background Color, Repeated Characters, Capitalization, and Indented Characters.
Note: When Attributes is checked, JAWS will announce formatting changes such as Bold, Underlined, Italics, and Strike through when they occur.
Press ENTER to close the dialog and then CTRL+S to save the file before exiting Configuration Manager.
When used, this feature automatically assigns a text label to unlabeled graphics. Automatic graphics labeling is limited to graphics with associated ToolTips. When activated, JFW will begin to search the active application window and determine their labels from ToolTips. Depending on the number of graphics, this may take several seconds before it is completed and the user is informed.
To Activate:
When in the desired application window, press INSERT+CTRL+G.
Note: If ToolTips do not exist, graphics can be labeled manually. For more information on labeling graphics, please refer to the Help Topics in the JFW Help System. See the Section: Exploring the JFW Utilities.
JFW 3.3 now supports grade 2 braille. This feature also makes it possible to expand the word that contains the active cursor, to computer braille for easy proofing. While on a line of text with grade 2 activated, route the cursor to a particular word or contraction and it will automatically be expanded to computer braille.
Computer braille is the Default Setting.
To Activate:
This feature can be toggled on or off from the Braille Display which will only effect the current session of JFW. Once JFW is restarted, it will go back to the default setting. See the JFW Help for your particular display or the Keyboard Manager Default file for the appropriate keystroke to toggle its status.
To change the default setting from computer braille to grade 2, follow the steps below.
Run the Configuration Manager by pressing INSERT+F2 and choose Configuration Manager from the list.
Note: If you want this to be a default setting for all applications, you should then open the DEFAULT.JCF file with the keystroke: CTRL+SHIFT+D. Otherwise, it will only take effect in the current application.
Now go to the Set Options menu with ALT+S.
From this menu, choose Braille Options.
Check the Box: Enable Translator in the grade 2 Group box with the SPACEBAR.
Note: The Expand Current Word Check box is checked by default and can be found in this Group Box as well.
Press ENTER to close the dialog and then CTRL+S to save the file before exiting Configuration Manager.
Support for many popular applications is available in the Using JFW with Popular Applications section.
JFW now supports Internet Explorer 5, Office 2000, PowerPoint 97, RealPlayer G2, and GoldMine 4.0 contact management software, and improved scripts have been provided for Access 97, Excel 97, Outlook 98, Word 97, Eudora Pro, and Eudora Lite. Please review the specific help or Explore the KeyBoard manager when in those applications for specific details.
HJPad is a basic word processing program where you can create, open, spell check F7, format, and save documents. Also, five sample dialogs have been created in HJPad for the purposes of training the new user. Now users can learn how to operate the many dialog controls found throughout the Windows operating system using these sample dialogs and without the concern that they are altering valuable information in another program. In HJPad, choose from the five dialogs located in the Tools/Sample Dialogs submenu: Single Page 1, Single Page 2, Multi-Page, List View, and Tree View.
Note: Using SHIFT+F1 on all of the controls within these dialogs, will provide a pop up Windows Help message for information regarding that particular control.
The Window List allows the user to switch between, close, or see the state of applications in their system. Applications that are running appear in alphabetical order in the List view, with the first application highlighted. Users with many application windows open, may find this to be a faster way to switch between applications than the taskbar or using ALT+TAB.
To Activate:
Press INSERT+F10 at any time in Windows, and the Window List will pop up.
Available actions are:
Switch To - Restores the highlighted application and gives it focus. This is the Default button.
About - Brings up a dialog box with a copyright message and the version of Window List.
Close - Closes the highlighted application.
Exit - Exits the Window List without changing the state of any application.
Maximize - Maximizes the highlighted application. (if available)
Minimize -Minimizes the highlighted application. (if available)
Run - Opens the Run dialog. This is the same as choosing Run from the Start menu.
A customizing feature activated when Typing Echo is turned on. Users can silence any or all alphabetical or numeric keys as desired. In addition, you can change the assigned label for these keys which is spoken when the key is pressed. For example: You could change the spoken label of Caps Lock to be just reported as Caps.
To Activate:
Run the Configuration Manager by pressing INSERT+F2 and choosing Configuration Manager from the list.
Note: If you want this to be a default setting for all applications, you should then open the DEFAULT.JCF file with the keystroke: CTRL+SHIFT+D. Otherwise, it will only take effect in the current application.
Now go to the Set Options menu with ALT+S.
From this menu, choose Keyboard Options.
Once in this multi -page dialog, you will land in the list of all the Keys which can be silenced or their labels can be modified. Use INSERT+F1 on each control for more information on adjusting and using controls in this dialog.
Press ENTER to close the dialog and then CTRL+S to save the file before exiting Configuration Manager.
In Windows 95 and 98 only, the user can now elect to hear JAWS announce changes in their cursor shape. When the feature is turned on, the user will be notified by the message voice if the cursor/mouse pointer changes shape such as Pointer or I Beam. This option is application specific or can be set by default for all applications.
Additionally, JFW 3.3 provides a keystroke, INSERT+CTRL+SHIFT+C, to announce the current shape of the cursor at anytime.
Note: The Cursor Shape features are not supported in Windows NT 4.0.
To Activate:
Run the Configuration Manager by pressing INSERT+F2 and choose Configuration Manager from the List.
Note: If you want this to be a default setting for all applications, you should then open the DEFAULT.JCF file with the keystroke: CTRL+SHIFT+D. Otherwise, it will only take effect in the current application.
Now go to the Set Options menu with ALT+S.
From this menu, choose Cursor Options.
Check the Box For Notify when cursor changes shape with the SPACEBAR.
Press ENTER to close the dialog and then CTRL+S to save the file before exiting Configuration Manager.
Note: INSERT+CTRL+SHIFT+C will announce current cursor shape regardless of this feature being turned on in Configuration Manager.
JFW 3.3 will now interrupt speech if a user clicks the mouse buttons. Previously, speech was interrupted only when the keyboard was used to click the mouse. This feature will make it much better for users of JFW in combination with magnification software such as MAGic, also provided by Henter-Joyce.
JFW 3.3 has been modified and developed with many new script functions to provide many of the powerful features in JFW so they can now be taken advantage of in MAGic 6.1, magnification software also offered by Henter-Joyce.
JAWS for Windows 3.3 now includes scripts designed to greatly enhance the performance of the Henter-Joyce MAGic 6.1 Screen Magnification Software. These scripts allow JAWS for Windows and MAGic to work in cooperation to provide excellent tracking functionality in commonly used applications such as Excel, Access, IE, Outlook 98 and terminal emulation programs. This functionality is also made available to many other programs in which tracking has traditionally been a problem. This ensures that JAWS for Windows 3.3 and MAGic 6.1 work well together on the same system and that custom configurations and user-defined keystrokes are not necessary.
Note: MAGic 6.1 is not included with JFW 3.3 however a demo of the newest release of MAGic can be found on the Henter-Joyce Web page, http://www.hj.com. MAGic 6.1 offers support for Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0.
A number of new and powerful additions have been made to the JFW Script language. For further information, consult the Script Documentation files in the JFW Script Manager.
The keyboard layout for Laptop computers has been redesigned. Please refer to the Help topic on Laptops for a complete list.
Now network users of JFW 3.3 with proper authorization can work on any computer in their network as long as the computer is mapped to the drive containing the authorization key. This feature applies to Windows 95 and 98, Windows NT, Novel, and Unix servers and stations. For information on obtaining network authorization, please contact the Henter-Joyce Sales Department.
Drivers for the Apollo 2 Synthesizer are now provided to allow this synthesizer to work in NT 4.0 with JFW 3.3. Previously, it was only supported in Windows 95 and 98.
JFW 3.3 now includes drivers and keymaps for the ECO Refreshable Braille Display produced in Spain. If you have this display and wish to use it with JFW, choose ECO Braille from the list of braille displays during installation.
The Microsoft software synthesizer is now included on the JFW 3.3 CD ROM and is supported in Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0. It is not installed by default but users wishing to install it can go to the d:\msspeech\.
NOTE: In this directory you will find two executable files. You must install them in the proper order for it to work correctly. The files are located in the Root of the JFW 3.3 CD in a Directory called:
d:\msspeech
You must execute spchapi.exe first. Secondly you need to execute mstts.exe
Failure to execute these in this order, may result in the MS Speech Engine not working.
Final note: If you plan to use the MS Speech Engine, you must install it of course, and they must choose it from the list of synthesizers during the JFW 3.3 install so it will appear in the Change Synthesizer menu. I strongly urge people to choose Eloquence first, and then the MS Speech Engine second since it may not be installed on their computer yet and Eloquence will get installed during the JFW install.
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser, IE5, is now included on the JFW 3.3 CD ROM and is supported with all the features offered in our support of IE 4.01. It is not installed by default but users can install it if they choose. View the README.TXT on the CD ROM for details and instructions.
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