JAWS Scripts For Weather Watcher Live
Doug Lee
Last Revised June, 2022

This document describes the custom scripts for Weather Watcher Live and provides tips for using this application with JAWS. This document can be opened from within the application via a double press of JAWSKey+F1 (or Insert+F1) when the scripts are running.

Table of Contents

System Requirements For JAWS Users

In addition to any system requirements for the application, the following apply for JAWS users:

Script Installation Instructions

To install these scripts on a new system:

  1. Load JAWS if this has not already been done. This will require administrative privileges on the computer.
  2. Run JAWS as the user for whom the scripts are to be installed. This and the following steps must be performed for each user of the computer who will be using JAWS with these scripts.
  3. Download and run, or run directly, the installer for these scripts; and follow the on-screen directions. Be sure to install the scripts in the currently running JAWS version if a JAWS version list is presented.
  4. To verify successful installation, type Insert+Q from within the application. Part of the JAWS spoken response should be a revision number. If you do not hear a revision number, the scripts are not correctly loaded. In some cases, restarting JAWS may fix this issue.

Script Commands and Features

These scripts provide the following commands beyond those provided by the application itself:

These scripts also provide the following features:

Known Issues

The following issues are known and may be encountered during use of the application with these JAWS scripts. These issues may be fixed in a future update to the scripts or to the application itself.

Braille support is not well tested.

Revision History

This is the revision history of these scripts, most recent revision first:

Revision 33, June 12, 2022

Note that this revision is the first officially posted since December, 2015. A less formally announced update was made available in April, 2021 containing most of the below features. This author has not personally tested this update against the application and thus relies on user feedback.

Revision 10, December 15, 2015

Revision 9, June 22, 2014