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How should Custom Highlights work in JAWS? (self.Blind)
submitted by blundermole
I've never used Custom Highlights in JAWS before and I'm trying to figure out how they work. I've read through the Custom Highlight Colors section of the help file but Custom Highlights are not working the way I would expect.
To test CH I've created a Word document with five paragraphs. The text in each paragraph is a different colour. I go to the fourth paragraph, which is green, and hit:
* CTRL + INS + H and then enter to "Set foreground and background"
* Enter again to confirm
* The "Customer Highlight Options - WORD" dialog appears, and confirms that "SpringGreen3 on white" is set as a Highlight
* Enter to close the dialog and return to Word
According to the help file, "Once assigned, text matching the color(s) you have specified is treated as highlighted by JAWS. For example, SaySelectedText (INSERT+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW) reads Custom Highlights you have assigned." When I hit INS + SHIFT + DOWN, I would expect JAWS to read out the green text, but it doesn't: instead, it just says "nothing selected".
What am I doing wrong?
To test CH I've created a Word document with five paragraphs. The text in each paragraph is a different colour. I go to the fourth paragraph, which is green, and hit:
* CTRL + INS + H and then enter to "Set foreground and background"
* Enter again to confirm
* The "Customer Highlight Options - WORD" dialog appears, and confirms that "SpringGreen3 on white" is set as a Highlight
* Enter to close the dialog and return to Word
According to the help file, "Once assigned, text matching the color(s) you have specified is treated as highlighted by JAWS. For example, SaySelectedText (INSERT+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW) reads Custom Highlights you have assigned." When I hit INS + SHIFT + DOWN, I would expect JAWS to read out the green text, but it doesn't: instead, it just says "nothing selected".
What am I doing wrong?
retrolental_morose 2 points 2y ago
I think this is expected to work in windows apps with read only text which should but doesn't read by default. text in documents already has a cursor. It's possible exposure of the text's state has changed over the years - there've been numerous office updates since custom highlights were introduced in JAWS.
RJHand 1 points 2y ago
Yeah and I don't believe freedom scientific have touched this feature in ages too which is probably part of it. I may be wrong though.
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