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Here are some suggested settings and hints for using JAWS with Band-In-A-Box.
These scripts were optimized for BIAB 2014 using a 1024X768 display resolution with 32-bit color.

Important: The Times New Roman font must be selected in BIAB in order for the chords to read properly. to do this:

  1. Open the Preferences dialog by hitting Control+E
  2. Hit Enter on the Display button
  3. Tab to the Chord font list and arrow down to Times New Roman
  4. Tab to the OK button to save this selection.

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.

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