Hi Colin,
I also have used JAWS since way back and I do recall that there used to
be an assigned hot key of alt + control + J. I also used to be on the
private beta testing team for over ten years and that the betas did not
have the default hot key for the reasons you have stated. Perhaps so
many others were using multiple versions of JAWS and that's why they
discontinued the practice. As I said, I haven't used JAWS for over 3
years and the previous ten before that I was on the private beta team
which did not include any hot keys.
I can well remember the early days of Dr. JAWS and I distinctly
remember him back about 1995 or 1996 saying that you could choose to run
JAWS at start up by checking the box.... or you could use the default
hot key after system start.
On 10/6/2014 7:38 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
> I'm so glad you said that steve, because I actually wrote two responses
> regarding no default hotkey, but figured I'd get the stink eye if I sent
> them...
> JFW, does not have, and never has had, a default hotkey set up. You must
> create it. For instance, what if you are running two versions of jfw on
> your computer, which one would start up with the hotkey if there was one?
> What if something else on your system uses Alt Control J, would JFW become
> primary or not? I have been running jaws since about version 2.0 and am up
> to 14 now, and have never seen a default hot key. I have made my hotkey alt
> control J many times, but it's always something I add and not something that
> is somehow programmed by default.
> Sometimes I have up to 3 versions of jaws on the system and have to create a
> different hotkey for each...
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 5:18 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: jaws question
>
>> Butch,
>>
>> Actually, there is no shortcut key to start JAWS unless you make one. =
>> However, there is an icon on the desktop, and you can assign a shortcut =
>> key (usually I make it Ctrl-Alt-J as you suggest).
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 16:38
>> Subject: Re: jaws question
>>
>>
>>> Butch,
>>> =20
>>> If you run JAWS in the demo mode and shut it down or it times out, =
>> unless=20
>>> this has changed in later versions, you will have to reboot the =
>> computer in=20
>>> order for JAWS to run again for another forty minutes.
>>> =20
>>> The default hot key to start JAWS is control, alt, J
>>> all simultaneously.
>>> =20
>>> Howard #3, W A 9 Y B W
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>>> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 3:31 PM
>>> Subject: Re: jaws question
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>>> Yeah, turn on windows narator by hitting windows key plus U.
>>>> Then find jaws on the desktop or jaws in the start menu and launch it =
>> that
>>>> way. Then, once jaws is loaded either turn on start jaws when the=20
>>>> computer
>>>> starts, or set up a hotkey via the desktop icon.
>>>>
>>>> 73
>>>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 2:06 PM
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subject: jaws question
>>>>
>>>>> I usually use window-eyes, but I bought a used laptop for a friend =
>> who is
>>>>> sighted, it had a demmo of jaws on it which I turned off so it =
>> doesn't
>>>>> come up when he turns it on. Is there a short cut key or quick way =
>> for=20
>>>>> me
>>>>> to get it back running to I can check some things on the computer =
>> for=20
>>>>> him?
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> 73
>>>>> Butch
>>>>> WA0VJR
>>>>> Node 3148
>>>>> Wallace, ks.=20
>>> =20
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