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I'm trying to test the screenreader dialogue on my application for 508 compliance. It works mostly how it should except a problem I'm running into is when I navigate element to element the screenreader reads each keystroke like so "TAB" when I want to traverse through my application. How can I turn this off while testing? I'm running JAWS 17.

Kode_12
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You can't and you shouldn't. Different verbosity settings like functional keys announcement, punctuation reading, repeated characters announcement, treatment of dialog controls and so on, and so forth, — all of these are entirely up to the screen reader and the user who adjusts these settings. Just like, for example, speech rate or pitch. As a JAWS user, I wouldn't be happy, and more than that, I would be angry if some app developer forced me to turn off my Tab announcement or changed my punctuation level.

Update: If you just want to turn off keystrokes announcement for yourself, do the following:

  1. Press Insert+6 on the number row to go to JAWS Settings Center. You can do this from the JAWS main menu, but the single keystroke is much faster.
  2. If you want to make your change by default for all apps, press Ctrl+Shift+D to open the default file.
  3. In the search box type labels and search for Key Labels.
  4. In the dialog that appears turn off the announcement for all of the keystrokes you don't want to hear. Note that if you mute Tab, all of the keystrokes like Shift+Tab and Ctrl+Tab will be muted automagically.
  5. click OK several times to leave Settings Center and save your settings.
Andre Polykanine
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  • I don't think you understood the question. For TESTING purposes I'd like to eliminate hearing keystrokes. I'm not forcing a user to do anything. These controls are all set by the end user so a developer like myself would not care what the verbosity, speech rate, pitch, etc. is set to on their end. In earlier editions of JAWS I never heard keystrokes, but now I do. It's not as simple as saying "that's just how the screenreader works". It can be adjusted but I'm not sure how... – Kode_12 Aug 26 '16 at 15:23
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    Ah OK, sorry then, I thought you would need to eliminate those for all of your users. I'll update the answer. – Andre Polykanine Aug 26 '16 at 16:21
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It's just a user setting options. If you do that in your jaws, it's coild bé different for an other person !

halna frédéric
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