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From: Donald.Breda@f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Donald Breda)
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Subject: Re: Can any screen readers support this concept?
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:24:51 GMT
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Index Number: 11935

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

  to: campbell%hpdmd48@hplabs.HP.COM (Gary Campbell)
 GC> Index Number: 11657
     
 GC> Re: gold key.
 GC> If a reader with macros had a user setable flag, the could the 
 GC> gold key set the flag and then a macro assigned to each key 
 GC> modified by the gold key have a macro associated with it that 
 GC> would test the flag?  I think the VP screen reader had a couple 
 GC> of flags, but its if statements were hard to use, if there 
 GC> weren't bugs in them-- I played with them a little a couple of 
 GC> years ago but don't remember the results of my experiments 
 GC> except that I didn't continue them.  JAWS 2 has macros; does it 
 GC> have flags? 

 GC> Gary Campbell

HI gary; Yes JAWS2 has a very nice macro editor that has 5 user flags that can
be set and tested and has 10 level deep nesting of macro's.
YOu can also test BIOS things such as the status of numlock and caps lock and
you can test for which cursor is turned on and more.
It is not has powerful as something like IBM screen reader, but it is quite
incrediable and well worth a look for what you want to do.
It has if then else, and all that good stuff with more improvements to come.
Hope this helps.

... Abled, Blinktalk and silver in boston

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