Hidden Notes scripts Read me.
Written by Drew Weber.
Find me on Threads @IllegallyBlind86

Usage:
You may find yourself in a presenting roll to a group of blind and sighted people alike. You may not want folks to see your outline or class notes via screen share. These scripts will pass the text from your clipboard into a buffer that is sent to the speech synth of JAWS only. You step into Hidden Notes with
Control+shift+` (grave accent).
You step out of hidden notes with,
control+shift+escape.
You copy your notes to the clipboard and then when Hidden Notes is active, press control+shift+n. JAWS reports, “Captured Clipboard Text For Notes”.
You then press control+home to verify you are at the top. Press down arrow to read down a line, and up arrow to read up a line. In this version of the scripts, you may not move by Word or Character.
JAWS will hold your spot when you step out of Hidden notes with control+shift+escape. Your focus also does not move away from the application you are in at any time.
If you are using Hidden Notes to review instructions for a complex website, moving focus to a notepad may step you out of a menu or move your position on the site and you won’t even know it. That’s not something you need worry about with Hidden Notes.

Instalation:

From the zip file,Open the,
DefaultDotJSS.txt
Select all with control+a
copy with control+c
press insert+0 to launch the JAWS Script Manager.
Press control+shift+d to launch the default.jss file.
If JAWS reports Shared dot jss, you will need to follow the next steps. If JAWS does not report, shared, you may just go down to the end of the file with control+end, and paste the contents of the text file, and press control+s to save and compile..
For shared default.

move to the bottom with control+end
create a test script with control+e to launch the new script dialogue
fill out the fields, like so,

New Script dialog
General Page
Script Name: Edit
Test
Can be attached to Key check box not checked
space to check it.
Synopsis: Edit
This is a test script.
Description: edit
This is a test script.
Category: edit combo
Don’t do anything with this.
Assign to Hot Key
Press, control+alt+=

tab to ok and press space.
Now you should be in the body of the new script. Press control+end to get to the bottom, and verify you are on a blank line below,
EndScript
If so, paste the contents of the text file.

Press control+s to save and compile. In either case you should hear a message from JAWS, Compile complete, with a ding.

Now open the file,
DefaultDotJKM.txt
You want to copy the two lines below,
CommonKeys.
I placed the CommonKeys line in this file just to give a reference.
select them with shift+down arrow twice, and press control+c to copy.
Alt+tab back to your JAWS Script manager and press control+f4 to close the Default script file jss.
Press control+o to launch the open dialogue.
Press tab to move to the files of type box and press, k, for key map files.
Shift+tab three times to navigate back to the list view and press, d, to move to default.jkm.
press enter to open this file.
JAWS Find, with control+f,
Common
and press enter
You should land on the line CommonKeys
press down arrow and you may be on the test script’s key mapping or another mapping.
press home to move to the start of the line and press enter.
up arrow to verify you are on a blank line.
press control+v to paste the key mappings previously coppied.
press control+s to save the file.
You will not hear a ding or a message.

Press alt+f4 to close the script manager.
Now move back to the zip file and copy, not open the following files. You will need to select them first.
HiddenNotes.JKM
HiddenNotes.jsb
move to your JAWS window and press alt+u, then x,to navigate to the utilities folder. Press e, until you land on, explore my settings and press enter.
Press control+v to paste the files.
Alt+f4 out of this window after the copy is complete.
alt+f4 out of the utilities window.
Quit and restart JAWS.
You are now ready to use your new scripts. enjoy.