JAWS - Scripting resources

JAWS - Scripting resources

Problem

A JAWS customer wishes to access resources for learning how to script JAWS for applications that do not speak well out of the box. 


Resolution

Described below are a range of resources free to commercial resources.

Free resources - Freedom Scientific

  1. Freedom Scientific Basics of scripting (Online): https://support.freedomscientific.com/Content/Documents/Other/ScriptManual/01-0_Introduction.htm
  2. Freedom Scientific Basics of scripting (downloadable self extracting file):
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/Content/Documents/Other/Basics_of_Scripting.exe
  3. Freedom Scientific JAWS enhancements to scripting:
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/support/jawsdocumentation/ScriptingInfo
  4. Freedom Scientific FSDN reference (downloadable):
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/support/jawsdocumentation/FSDN
  5. Freedom Scientific JAWS UIA script API:
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/support/jawsdocumentation/UIAScriptAPI
  6. Freedom Scientific JAWS online domain scripting (PDF file):
    https://support.freedomscientific.com/Content/Documents/Other/Domain-Scripting-Quick-Start.pdf

Free Third party resource

  1. American Federation of the Blind intro to JAWS scripting introduction:
    https://www.afb.org/aw/4/6/14806
  2. Ken Gould, Everything you ever wanted to know about scripting (Google document):
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/115gwVTWlDov0mcmkmZ5nl4absmA6WBA-nSjKaG762Jg/edit#heading=h.lz301rfq8wd1

Commercial scripting resources

  1. Hartgen Consultancy - JAWS scripting course:
    http://www.hartgen.org/jawsscripting

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