JAWS Scripts

Perky Duck comes with JAWS script files which support JAWS 9 or higher. (Please note that these are for the English language only.)

When you launch Perky Duck, a special utility checks to see if your JAWS settings folders have up-to-date copies of the JAWS script files for Perky Duck. If not, it asks for permission to install the script files supplied with Perky Duck. If you answer yes, it installs them and also makes back-up copies of any files it is replacing.

Hot keys:

• Insert + h - Provides up to date help and information.

• Alt + 9 - speaks the current location (page, line, and column), and puts it on your braille display if present.

• Alt + 0 - speaks the current document name and puts it on your braille display if present.

• Alt + o - toggle setting that determines whether requested status information appears on braille display as well as being spoken.

• Alt + p - toggles setting that determines whether JAWS speaks braille cells for Keyboard entry in a braille document.

Important Tip

If you get garbled speech when you select text with the shift key in Perky Duck, go to the Global: View Preferences dialog, and uncheck "SHOW CURSOR LOCATOR WHEN SHIFT IS PUSHED".

Other Features

• When you move over a skipped line other than a blank paragraph, with an arrow key command or in a Say-All command, the PC speaker beeps.

• When you are editing a braille document and you move with the left or right arrow key, you hear the "braille cell" spoken, rather than hearing the ASCII character (for example, you might hear "e d sign" rather than "dollar sign").

• The above type of echo is also available for Keyboard entry in a braille document, be it 6-key entry or not; you can choose this with a toggle.

• When you use a movement command but the cursor does not move, JAWS tells you that you are in the same spot.