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From: Jablonski, James (LNI)
Date: Jan 4, 2010 12:00PM

I don't know if all A/T products provide "pass-thru' keys, but ZoomText
does. Pressing ALT with PAUSE lets ZoomText ignore whatever next key or
key-combination immediately follows.

So, for example, with ZoomText running, ALT+HOME will jump your
scrolling to the left. As a ZoomText user, you want to use that
sequence to jump to your home page, using Internet Explorer (a default
behavior in IE) you would use ALT+PAUSE followed by ALT+HOME, (letting
the ALT+HOME "pass thru to IE.)

JAWS's Pass-thru keystroke is: JAWS 3 (NumPad Insert with the NumPad 3).

Mentioning use of a pass-thru key sequence for A/T users may be helpful
if standard A/T keystrokes are stolen for the page or app.