In this house there are many doors... no wait, not that.
All right, there exists for all computers at all times, and in all ways, three cursers: the invisible curser, or the image curser, depending on what version of OS is being used; the PC curser, which is for the keyboard & only the keyboard; and the pointer curser, this is for the mouse, and only for the mouse. Most of the time a program doesn't delineate tasks for the PC curser and for the mouse curser, allowing one to use both. Sometimes however, they are, certain dialogue boxes for instance, require you to point and click on them with the "pointer" mouse curser. The more famous ones are the hover drop down menu, or the oh so new anti-bot programs that require you to drag and drop specific items to specific places. For most of you, it's not important, the mouse is there and the GYI was designed with the mouse in mind. This is the catch; all screen-readers are designed to ignore the mouse. I can in fact move my mouse around all I want, and it won't impact JAWS in the slightest. Older screen-readers, Such as JAWS 2.0 and earlier, as well as any screen-reader published before ninety-eight, was affected by the mouse, but not any more. Therefore, the only way I can activate the "pointer curser" is to turn off JAWs, which would be like me asking you to turn off your monitor and then do something... yeah, this doesn't remotely sound like a good idea to me either. :D
My first emoticon.
For the moment, I'm just going to forget about it, and come back to it when I feel like handling a really good challenge. A really, really good challenge. There will be much tears and mashing of teeth.
Oh, the invisible curser allows you to hear aspects of the screen not accessible by the PC curser, but you can't actually do anything in that mode. I use it a lot, when examining what is normally heavily visual content to further extrapolate what I can about it.
