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An updated version of the Jaws scripts for BIAB is now available. Some of the fixes and improvements include:

1. Improved the speaking of bars and chords during navigation and playback so that this is now more accurate and responsive.
2. Removed the key conflicts with the script Shift+Control+key hotkeys and the BIAB hotkeys in the synth settings dialog.
3. In the synth settings dialog, the Tab and Shift+Tab keys now move between the various combo boxes for selecting the synth as well as the audio and synth effects.
4. Added speaking options for BIAB in the Jaws options tree (JawsKey+V). From this options list you can now toggle on and off both the speaking of special BIAB hotkeys as well as the speaking of bars and chords during playback.
5. Changed the Control+JawsKey+K hotkey so that it toggles on and off the speaking of bars and chords during playback. Previously this hotkey simply muted and unmuted speech for all speech output (as can already be done with Jaws). As mentioned above, this can also now be toggled using the Jaws options tree.
6. The BIAB UI does not respond to Tab and Shift+Tab according to the standard Windows Navigation conventions when in a set of radio buttons. Therefore, I fixed the behavior of navigation in and out of sets of radio buttons so that they now respond properly to the conventional Windows navigation keystrokes. Without this modification Tab and Shift+Tab were modifying the selection in a set of radio buttons rather than keeping the selection the same and moving out of the set of radio buttons.
7. Fixed minor problems with speaking held chords and multiple chords in a given half measure.
8. Updated the documentation in the Jaws help (insert+h) that reflects these changes.

A zip archive containing the latest Jaws scripts can be downloaded from:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=219099#downloads

These scripts were developed using BIAB 2008.5 and Jaws 10.

Enjoy!

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What is this biting device wif teeff that you speak of Grasshopper?!?!?


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JAWS is a screen reader program from Freedom Scientific:
www.freedomscientific.com
It works with Windows applications to make them more accessible to blind users. Jaws provides speech output from Windows applications (as well as braille if one has a braille display) so that the user can hear what is on the screen.

Although many applications work fairly well "out of the box" with Jaws, the unusual UI of BIAB makes it particularly difficult for blind people to use and navigate.

Fortunately, the Jaws application has an advanced scritping language which can be used to customize how particular applications work with Jaws.

Since BIAB is used by many blind musicians, another Jaws user and myself have taken it upon ourselves to develop scripts for Jaws that make this very useful program more accessible with Jaws.

I hope this ansers your questions.

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Thanks Pete!


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hi pete. I'm also a blind person and would like to use biab but since biab 2009 is out now i wondered if your scripts will work with biab 2009?

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