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Below are some suggested settings and hints for using JAWS with Band-In-A-Box.

These scripts were optimized for Band-in-a-Box 2017.

Required Settings

In order to Make Band-In-a-Box work properly with JAWS certain changes need to be made to the Preferences / Display settings. There are two methods for doing this:

Method #1: Loading the pre-configured scheme.

  1. Find the file entitled "bbw JAWS access scheme.csc" that came with these scripts and copy it to the "data" folder under your BIAB installation. This should be something like:
    c:\bb\data
  2. In the Band-In-a-Box program, open up the Display preferences by hitting control+E and hitting enter on the "display" button.
  3. Tab to "Load Scheme" and hit enter.
  4. Arrow down to "bbw JAWS access scheme" to select this scheme and hit enter.
  5. Shift+Tab to "OK" and hit enter to close the Display Preferences dialog.
  6. Your preferences should now be set to use JAWS with Band-In-a-Box and you can ignore Method #2 below!

Method #2: Manual method (instead of using Method #1)

  1. Hit control+E and hit "Enter" on Display to get into the dialog.
  2. Tab 10 times to get to the checkbox labled "Highlight Selected Cell. Make sure this box is checked.
  3. Tab 14 more times until you come to to "Font..." and hit enter.
  4. Arrow down to "Times New roman" to select this font.
  5. Tab to "OK" and hit enter.
  6. Tab to the Combo Box entitled "Superscript Chord Extensions (Main)" and make sure "Never" is selected.
  7. Tab to the next Combo Box entitled "Superscript Chord Extensions (Additional)" and make sure "Never" is selected.
  8. Tab to the check box entitled "Autoadjust Number of Rows" and make sure it is checked.
  9. Next, turn on the JAWS cursor and navigate to a line where you hear the text "Min rows Max rows". Below this line you will see two numbers. These are the minimum and maximum number of lines to show in the Chord Sheet display. Use the JAWS cursor to navigate to one of these at a time and route the PC cursor to the JAWS cursor. Change the min and max numbers to 2 and 3, respectively.
  10. Finally, with the PC cursor active, tab to "OK" and hit enter to make the changes to the Display preferences.

Additional hints and trouble-shooting

If chords or other information do not appear to be reading properly, hit Control+W to make sure you are in the Chord window. Sometimes refreshing the screen with JAWSKey+Escape or Alt+Tabbing to another application and back again can fix these issues.

Also, make sure that all extraneous windows (such as "Big Lyrics", "Big Piano", etc.) have been closed. You can check the status of these windows by going to the Windows pull-down menu by hitting Alt+D.

If the Control+T BIAB hotkey is used to move the Chord window to the top of the screen, some screen information will be obscured and JAWS will not be able to read it. For example, if one tries to read the song memo information with JAWSKey+Shift+E, the user will hear information that is not related to the style memo.

JAWS verbosity should be set to Intermediate or Beginner to insure proper speech feedback from all dialogs and events.

BIAB supports a number of native hotkeys and commands to control many functions and settings. Most of these can be found in the BIAB Help documentation by hitting F1 and looking for the 3 topics on Keyboard Hotkeys contained in the "References" book. The JAWS Keyboard Help (JAWSKey+1) can also be used to identify the function of most of these hotkeys as well as other scripting functions.

Hit JAWSKey+F1 once to bring up a list of other useful hotkeys supported by these scripts.

(Hit Alt+F4 to close this window)