JAWS Scripts For Hayaemon
Doug Lee
Last Revised April, 2026
This guide provides tips for using these scripts with the Hayaemon application.
This document can be opened via a double press of JAWSKey+F1 (or Insert+F1) while the application is in focus.
These scripts include code contributed in August-September, 2012 by
Jitendra and ramkumar (from the ultrauniverse team)
for reading time information.
Table of Contents
Script Features
These scripts provide the following features beyond those available in
Hayaemon itself:
- Better naming of controls in the main screen.
- Parallels to the Winamp script commands for checking track times:
Ctrl+JAWSKey+T for total track length,
Alt+Shift+T for elapsed time, and Ctrl+Shift+T
for remaining time.
- Ctrl+Shift+W launches the home page for these scripts
in the default browser. This can be useful when checking for updates.
Information regarding the user's script revision, JAWS version, and
Hayaemon version is sent to the script author's web site by this command
as well, so the author can keep track of what configurations
to support with the scripts.
System Requirements For JAWS Users
There are no known system requirements for these scripts beyond those
for Hayaemon itself. The scripts were written against Hayaemon 2.49 beta 12 for Windows.
Script Installation Instructions
To install these scripts on a new system:
- Load JAWS if this has not already been done. This will require
administrative privileges on the computer.
- 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.
- 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.
- To verify successful installation, type Insert+Q while
Hayaemon is in focus in a supported browser. 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.
Known Issues
Issues shown in this section may be fixed in future script
revisions but are not addressed as of this writing.
The Hayaemon version scripted is not current and is by now very old.
Sliders in the main screen are mostly not named at this time, but
since they each immediately follow corresponding named edit spinboxes
in tab order, their names are contextually apparent.
Braille is not well-tested.
Revision History
Here is the revision history of these scripts, most recent revision first:
Revision 54, released April 13, 2026
This is an update across 14 years of silence for this project.
Testing of this script set is welcome and encouraged.
Please report any problems as indicated on this author's
contact page.
Normally, the previous revision would remain downloadable in case of need;
however, the installer used for that revision, from 2012,
appears no longer to work for modern Windows and JAWS versions.
Changes in this update:
- The installer is changed from Inno Setup to the Nullsoft Install System (NSIS).
Removal of any previous Hayaemon script installation prior to running this new installer is strongly recommended.
- Code has undergone significant upgrades in format and content to
conform to changes in JAWS in the 14 years since the scripts' initial
publication. This includes, for example, correct recognition of JAWS versions beyond 15.0.
- Documentation and release notes are merged into a single document,
consistent with other projects by this author.
This documentation update also includes modernization of HTML usage and document appearance.
Revision 27, released September 4, 2012
This update incorporates code contributed by
Jitendra and ramkumar from the ultrauniverse team
that provides the three keystrokes known by users of Winamp with JAWS
for checking track times:
Ctrl+JAWSKey+T for total track length,
Alt+Shift+T for elapsed time, and Ctrl+Shift+T
for remaining time.
Revision 5, released August 5, 2012
First published revision, which names controls and provides the
Ctrl+Shift+W keystroke.