[vip_students] Internet Explorer 7 guide for jaws users
- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:49:14 +0100
Hi All,
Below is an excellent short tutorial written up by a guy called: David
Bailes
Internet Explorer 7 Guide
A guide for Jaws users, written by David Bailes at Chorlton Workshop for
hsbp. More guides are available on the Jaws Guides page of the VIP Software
Guides website.
Contents
Introduction
Main window
Reading a web page
Navigation
Search box
Tabbed browsing
Downloading
Favorites center
Favorites
History
Feeds
Internet Options dialog
Customise your settings pages
Keystrokes
Introduction
This is a guide to the web browser Internet Explorer version 7, running
under Windows XP. To use this version of Internet Explorer, you'll need Jaws
7.10 or later, and preferably Jaws 8.0 or later.
The new features in version 7 include:
Tabbed browsing, which allows you to have a number of web pages open in a
single Internet Explorer window, and to easily move between them.
A Search box on one of the toolbars, which you can use to conveniently
search either the web, or websites such as Wikipedia.
A feed reader is now included in Internet Explorer.
The Favorites Center, in which you can open your favorites, recently visited
web pages (history), and your subscribed feeds.
The first time you open Internet Explorer after you've installed it, you're
automatically taken to a web page which has brief descriptions of some of
the new features, and which leads to a number of pages where you have to
choose a small number of settings. These pages are described in detail in
the Customise your settings pages.
On subsequent times, when you open Internet Explorer it displays it's “Home”
page. You can set this home page to whatever web page you want, as described
in the Browser home page section.
Main Window
This section describes the main window of Internet Explorer, and how to move
around it.
Components of the window
Title bar. The title bar contains the title of the web page, followed by the
name of the program — Internet Explorer. To read the title bar, press INSERT
+ T.
First toolbar, which includes the address bar, and is described in the next
section.
Menu bar.
Second toolbar, which is described in the Second toolbar section below.
Information bar, if it's being displayed. The information bar if used for
displaying security alerts, and is described in the Information bar section
below.
Web page pane. Displays the web page whose address is shown in the address
bar.
Status bar. You can read the status bar by pressing INSERT + PAGE DOWN
First toolbar
The first toolbar contains the following groups of controls:
Back and Forward buttons (ALT + LEFT ARROW and ALT + RIGHT ARROW).
The address bar is an edit-combo box which contains the address of the web
page which is displayed in the content pane. To read the address bar, press
INSERT + A.
Refresh (F5) and Stop (ESC) buttons.
Search box (CTRL + E).
Search split-button. Press the button to search, or DOWN ARROW to open the
Search Options menu. In practice you never need to use this split button, as
all the functions are available from the Search box by using the appropriate
keystrokes.
Normally, you'll move to these controls directly using their shortcuts, but
you can move around this toolbar, and the Second toolbar by using standard
navigation keystrokes. To move between the groups of controls use TAB and
SHIFT + TAB, and to move within the groups use LEFT ARROW and RIGHT ARROW.
Note that you can't move to the Back and Forward buttons, the only way of
pressing these is to use their shortcuts.
Second toolbar
This section describes the Second toolbar, and can safely be omitted on the
first reading of this guide.
The second toolbar contains the following groups of controls:
Favorites Center and Add to Favorites buttons.
Buttons for tabbed browsing:
Quick Tabs (CTRL + Q).
Tab List (CTRL + SHIFT + Q).
Buttons for each of the open tabs.
New Tab (CTRL + T).
Command bar, which contains:
Home split button. Pressing the button takes you to the browser's home page,
and pressing DOWN ARROW opens the Home menu. The Home menu has shortcut ALT
+ M.
Feeds split button, which is only available if there are one or more feeds
on the page. Pressing the button goes to the first feed, and pressing DOWN
ARROW opens the Feeds menu which contains the feeds on the page. The Feeds
menu has the shortcut ALT + J.
Print split button. Pressing the button prints the page, and pressing DOWN
ARROW opens the Print menu. The Print menu has the shortcut ALT + R.
Page button (ALT + P), which opens the Page menu. The items on this menu can
all be found on the menus of the menu bar.
Tools button (ALT + O), which opens a Tools menu. The items on this menu are
different from those on the Tools menu on the menu bar, but they can all be
found on the menus of the menu bar.
Help button (ALT + L), which opens a Help menu, which is the same as the
Help menu on the menu bar.
Moving around the window
To move to the menu bar, press ALT, and to leave it, press ESC or ALT.
To move to the address bar which is part of the First toolbar, press ALT +
D. Note that this also selects the text in the address bar.
Pressing F6 cycles you round the following components:
First toolbar.
Second toolbar.
Web page pane, or the Information bar if it's being displayed.
Pressing SHIFT + F6 moves you in the opposite direction. Note that if the
web page contains frames, then F6 also moves you through the frames on the
web page.
Pressing TAB cycles you round the following:
The groups of controls on the First toolbar.
The groups of controls on the Second toolbar.
The Information bar, if it's being displayed.
The links and controls in the web page.
Pressing SHIFT + TAB moves you in the opposite direction.
Reading a web page
When you move to a web page, Jaws normally starts reading it from the top of
the page. You can press CTRL + HOME, which stops Jaws reading, and takes you
to the top of the page. You can then navigate to the information you want to
read, as described in the next section.
When you move to some web pages, such as Google or a page where you have to
sign in, rather than Jaws reading it from the top of the page, the initial
focus is the appropriate edit box.
You can use all the standard keystrokes for reading text.
If you are reading a line at a time, a link appears on its own line.
If a web page tries to do something that might be unsafe, then Internet
Explorer alerts you to this by using the Information bar, which is described
in the Information bar section below.
For more information about reading and interacting with the HTML elements on
a web page, see the separate HTML guide.
Moving around a web page
To move to the top or bottom of a page, press CTRL + HOME or CTRL + END,
respectively.
Quick navigation keys, like H to move to the next heading.
Lists of HTML elements. For example, INSERT + F7 opens a dialog box
containing a list of the links on the page.
This page links, like the “skip to content” link at the top of the page on
some web sites.
Find. Press CTRL + F to open the Jaws find dialog, and F3 to Find next.
For more information on moving around a web page, see the separate HTML Page
Navigation guide.
Information bar
The Information bar is used for displaying warnings about security related
conditions. When a web page tries to do something that might be unsafe, like
install an ActiveX control, open a pop-up window, or download a file, the
Information bar appears between the second toolbar and the web page. It
contains an brief description of the warning, and often an invitation to
click the bar for various options.
After you've installed IE7, when the Information bar appears, a dialog box
with the title Information Bar also opens. This asks you whether you've
noticed the Information bar. The dialog contains a “Don't show this message
again” checkbox, which you'll probably want to check. There's also a “Learn
about the Information Bar” link which opens Help at the relevant page. Press
ENTER to close the dialog.
When the Information bar appears, then apart from the dialog box described
above:
Jaws reads the Information bar.
If you want to move to the Information bar so you can click for options,
press ALT + N ( or press F6 three times).
Press SPACEBAR to open a pop-up menu, and choose an option.
Navigation
There are several ways of moving to another web page:
Type a web address in the address bar. Press ALT + D, which moves you to the
address bar, and selects the text in the address bar. Then type in the
address and press ENTER.
Use the Search box. Press CTRL + E to move to the Search box, type in one or
more search terms, and then press ENTER. More details are given in the
Search box section.
Go to one of the web pages in your Favorites. Press CTRL + I to open the
Favorites page of the Favorites Center, and then choose a web page. More
details about Favorites are given in the Favorites section.
Go to a web page which you've visited recently. Press CTRL + H to open the
History page of the Favorites Center, and then choose a web page. More
details are given in the History section.
Open a link on a web page. To open a link, press ENTER.
Go Back and Forward, by pressing ALT + LEFT ARROW and ALT + RIGHT ARROW
respectively. Going back, retraces your path of web pages, ending up with
the page with which the tab (page) opened. Once you have gone back, you can
also go forward again.
Go to your Home page, by pressing ALT + HOME. Instructions for setting the
Home page are given in the Browser home page section of the Internet options
dialog section below.
Open an HTML file on your computer. Press CTRL + O, and an Open dialog opens
with the initial focus on an open edit box. Rather than type in the full
path of the file, it's easier to TAB to the Browse button and press it. A
dialog with the title Microsoft Internet Explorer opens, which the same
structure as a standard Open dialog. Select a file, and press ENTER to press
the default Open button. You are returned to the Open dialog, and press
ENTER to press the default OK button.
Search box
You can use the Search box, which is on the first toolbar, to search either
the web, or often used websites like Wikipedia. It's a convenient
alternative to going to the appropriate web page, and using the search edit
box on that page.
To search using the Search box:
Press CTRL + E to move to the Search box.
Type in your search terms. (You don't have to go into forms mode to do this,
as you're on a toolbar, not on a web page.)
Press ENTER.
When you search using the Search box, you use the search of a particular
search provider, like Google or Microsoft's Live Search. When you move to
the Search box, Jaws says the name of the current search provider: for
example “Live search edit” or “Google edit”. Internet Explorer has a list of
available search providers, and you can choose which of these you want to
use as your current search provider. In addition, one of these search
providers is set as your default search provider: the current search
provider is set to this each time you start Internet Explorer.
After you've installed Internet Explorer 7, the list of available search
providers may contain only a single search provider, Microsoft's Live
Search. However, you can easily add other search providers to this list, as
described in the Adding a search provider section below. To view the
available search providers, go to the Search box (CTRL + E), and press CTRL
+ DOWN ARROW to open the Search Options menu. On this menu:
The items on the menu before the “Find on this Page” item are the available
search providers.
The default search provider is indicated by Default in parenthesis after the
search provider.
The current search provider is indicated by the item being checked. If you
select a search provider on this menu, and press ENTER, this becomes your
current search provider. If you don't want to change your current search
provider, close the menu by pressing ESC.
The following sections describe how to change the current search provider,
and manage the list of available search providers.
Changing the current search provider
When you move to the Search box, Jaws reads the name of the current search
provider. To change the current search provider, with the focus in the
Search box, press CTRL + DOWN ARROW to open the Search Options menu, and
choose a provider.
Adding a search provider
To add a search provider to the list of available search providers:
Press CTRL + E to move to the Search edit box.
Press CTRL + DOWN ARROW to open the Search Options menu, and choose Find
More Providers.
You are moved to a web page which has the title Add Search Providers to
Internet Explorer 7. Unfortunately the accessibility of this page could be
better. Move to first and only heading on the page. Following this are links
for various providers, which you can TAB through. The first few are
providers which search the whole web, and this is followed by providers
which search particular sites, like Wikipedia. Move to one of the links and
press ENTER.
An Add Search Provider dialog opens. The dialog's default button is Cancel,
so TAB to the Add Provider button, and press it.
Setting the default search provider
Press CTRL + E to move to the Search edit box.
Press CTRL + DOWN to open the Search Options menu, and choose Change Search
Defaults.
The Change Search Defaults dialog opens. The first control is a list of your
search providers, where the default provider is appended by the word the
word Default in parenthesis. Select the provider which you want to be your
default, and then TAB to the Set Default button and press it.
TAB to the OK button, and press it.
Removing a search provider
You can remove a search provider using the Change Search Defaults dialog
which was described in the previous section. In this dialog, select a
provider, then TAB to the Remove button and press it.
Downloading
When you open a link to a file such as a word document, a pdf, or an
application, a File Download dialog opens. The exact form of the dialog
depends on the type of the file:
If you open a link to an application, then a dialog with the title File
Download – Security Warning opens. This gives you the options of either
running the program directly from the web, or saving it. The default button
is Cancel, so you have to TAB to either the Run or the Save button and press
it.
If you open a link to a file such as a word document or a pdf, then a dialog
with the title File Download opens. This gives you options of either opening
the file using the default program for the given file type, or saving it.
The default button is Cancel, so you have to TAB to the Open or Save button
and press it.
Note that this dialog also contains an “Always ask before opening this type
of file” checkbox, which by default is checked. If you uncheck it, and then
press Open or Save, then the next time you open a link to this type of file,
Windows automatically either opens or saves the file, depending on your
choice above. You're no longer given the option of whether to open or save.
If you've pressed the Save button in either of two dialogs described above,
then:
A standard Save As dialog opens. When you're happy with the settings, press
ENTER to press the default Save button.
A dialog opens which contains information about the progress of the
download. During the download, the title of the dialog is “x% of
somename.sometype”, and Jaws automatically reads out this percentage from
time to time. When the download is complete, Jaws says 100%, and the title
of the dialog changes to Download complete. Note that if the download looks
as if it's going to take a long time, you can do other things, and then use
ALT + TAB to switch back to the dialog to check whether it's finished. Once
the download is complete, you can either press ENTER to press the default
Close button, or TAB to the Open button and press it to immediately open the
file.
Tabbed browsing
The tabbed browsing feature in Internet Explorer 7 lets you have a number of
web pages open at the same time within a single program window, and lets you
easily move between these pages. If you don't find this feature useful, you
can turn it off, as described in the tabbed browsing options section below.
Each open web page has a corresponding tab button on the second toolbar.
When describing tabbed browsing, pages are often referred to as tabs, as in
“opening a new tab”. Also, the page with the focus is often referred to as
being in the foreground, and the other tabs as being in the background.
Opening tabs
To open a new blank tab in the foreground, press CTRL + T. The initial focus
is the address bar. After installing Internet Explorer 7, the title of the
new page is Welcome to tabbed browsing, and the page contains a brief
introduction to tabbed browsing. The page also contains a checkbox “Don't
show this page again” which by default is unchecked. If you check this, and
move to the Close button on the next line and press it, then in future the
new page has the title Blank Page, and is blank.
To open a new tab when you open a link, press either CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER or
CTRL + ENTER to open in the tab in the foreground or background
respectively.
To open a new tab from the Favorites Center (Favourites, History, or Feeds),
press either CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER or CTRL + ENTER to open in the tab in the
foreground or background respectively.
To open a new tab from the address bar or the search box, press ALT + ENTER.
The new tab is in the foreground.
Switching between tabs
To move to the next or previous tab, press CTRL + TAB or CTRL + SHIFT + TAB
respectively.
Press the Tab List button on the second toolbar (CTRL + SHIFT + Q), which
opens a menu containing the titles of the tabs. To move to a tab, choose it
from the menu.
To move to the first, second, third, etc. tab press CTRL + 1, CTRL + 2, CTRL
+ 3 etc. This works up to the eighth tab.
To move to the last tab, press CTRL + 9
Closing tabs
The close the current tab, press CTRL + W or CTRL + F4. Note that if only
one tab is open, then these keystrokes also close the program.
To close all the tabs apart from the current tab, press CTRL + ALT + F4.
Tabbed browsing options
Open the Internet Options dialog, which is on the Tools menu.
On the General page, press the Settings button in the Tabs section.
The Tabbed Browser Settings dialog opens. There are numerous options, which
include:
An “Enable Tabbed Browsing” checkbox, which is checked by default.
A “Warn me when closing multiple tabs” checkbox, which is checked by
default. If this is checked, then when you close the program with more than
one tab open, a message box opens with the title Internet Explorer, asking
you whether you want to close all tabs. The default button is Close Tabs.
A “When a pop-up is encountered” set of radio buttons. By default this is
set to Always open pop-ups in a new window, but you might want to change
this to one of the other alternatives.
When you've made your changes, press ENTER to press the default OK button.
You're returned to the Internet Options dialog. TAB to the OK button, and
press it.
Favorites center
The Favorites Center, despite its name, is used for opening recently visited
web pages and subscribed feeds, as well as favorite web pages. This section
gives a brief overview of the Favorites Center, and then the next three main
sections of the guide give detailed descriptions of its use for Favorites,
History, and Feeds.
The Favorites Center is normally closed, but when opened, it appears below
the second toolbar, on the left hand side of the window. The Center contains
the following controls:
A toolbar containing Favorites and Feeds buttons, and a History split
button. To move between these buttons, use the arrow keys.
A tree view of either Favorites, Feeds, or History, depending on which
button is pressed on the toolbar.
Either a Pin Favorites Center button, or Close the Favorites Center button.
You can think of the Favorites Center having multiple pages, like a
multi-page dialog box. The pages each contain a single control: a tree view
of favorites, or subscribed feeds, or recently visited web pages.
Opening and closing the Favorites Center
There are keystrokes for opening the Favorites Center on each of the three
pages:
CTRL + I opens the Favorites page.
CTRL + J opens the Feeds page.
CTRL + H opens the History page.
If you use one of these keystrokes to open the Favorites Center and select a
web page, then when you press ENTER to open the web page, the Favorites
Center automatically closes. If you open the Favorites Center, and then
decide you don't want to open a web page, press ESC to close the Favorites
Center.
When the Favorites Center is open, and you want to move to a different page,
it's easier to use the keystrokes given above than to TAB to the toolbar and
press one of the buttons.
Note that it's possible to pin the Favorites Center open so that it doesn't
automatically close when you open a web page, but this isn't normally very
useful if you're using a screen reader. You can pin open the Favorites
Center either by pressing the Pin Favorites Center button in the Favorites
Center, or by adding the SHIFT key to the above keystrokes for opening the
Favorites Center. For example, if you press CTRL + SHIFT + I this opens the
Favorites page of the Favorites Center, and pins it open, and you can close
it using the same keystroke. You can also close it by pressing the Close
button in the Favorites Center. If the Favorites Center is pinned open, then
if you use F6 or TAB to cycle through the components of the main window,
then the Favorites Center is included in this cycle, and comes after the
second toolbar.
Tree view navigation
You can navigate the tree view in the Favorites Center using all the
standard keystrokes for navigating a tree view:
UP and DOWN ARROW, HOME and END, and the first letter of the folder or web
page you want to find.
LEFT ARROW has two uses: if you're focussed on an open folder, it closes it;
else it moves you up the list to the parent folder.
RIGHT ARROW also has two uses: if you're focussed on a closed folder, it
opens it; else if you you're focussed on an open folder, it moves you down
to the first child folder or web page.
Favorites
If you visit a particular web page often, or want to make a note of a web
page for future reference, you can add it to a list of “favorite” web pages.
You can then easily open the web page from that list, without having to
remember and type in its web address.
Adding a web page to your favorites
Choose Add to Favorites from the Favorites menu (CTRL + D).
The Add Favorite dialog opens. The first control is an edit box for the name
of the favorite. By default it's the title of the web page, but if you want,
just type in a different name.
Press ENTER to press the default Add button.
Opening a favorite web page
Press CTRL + I to open the Favorites page of the Favorites Center.
In the tree view of your favorites, select a favorite, and press ENTER to
open it. If you decide that you don't want to open one of your favorites,
just press ESC to close the Favorites Center.
Note that as in Internet Explorer 6, you can also open a favorite web page
from the Favorites menu (ALT + A).
Using folders to organise your favorites
If you end up with a large number of favorites, you can use folders to
organise your favorites.
You can create a new folder in the Favorites page of the Favorites Center,
as described in the next section, or you can press the New Folder button in
the Add a Favorite dialog.
To add a web page to a particular folder in your favorites, in the Add a
Favorite dialog box, there's a Create in combo box immediately following the
Name edit box which you can use to specify the folder.
Managing favorites
First, press CTRL + I to open the Favorites page of the Favorites Center,
then:
To rename a selected favorite, choose Rename from its shortcut menu or press
F2, type in the new name, and press ENTER.
To delete a selected favorite, press delete. A message box with the title
Confirm File Delete opens, asking whether you're sure. Press ENTER to press
the Yes button. Note that the Favorites center will now be closed (unless
it's pinned open) so if you want to get back to your favorites, you'll have
to press CTRL + I again.
To move a selected favorite up or down the tree at the same level, press ALT
+ UP ARROW or ALT + DOWN ARROW respectively.
To create a new folder at the top level of the tree, select any favorite or
closed folder at this level, and choose Create New Folder from its shortcut
menu. Type in a name for the folder, and then press ENTER.
To move a selected favorite or folder to another folder, choose Cut from its
shortcut menu, select the folder where you want to move it to, and choose
Paste from its shortcut menu.
As well as being able to manage your favorites using the Favorites page of
the Favorites Center, alternatives are:
Use the Organize Favorites dialog, which you can open by choosing Organize
Favorites on the Favorites menu (CTRL + B).
Use Windows Explorer. Your favorites are stored in a Folder called
Favorites, and each favorite is stored as a file. To Open Windows Explorer
with your Favorites folder selected: open the Favorites menu in Internet
Explorer; select Organise Favorites, and then press SHIFT + ENTER, rather
than just ENTER.
History
To open a recently visited web page:
Press CTRL + H to open the History page of the Favorites Center.
In the tree view of your recently visited web pages, select a web page, and
press ENTER to open it. If you decide that you don't want to open one of
these pages, just press ESC to close the Favorites Center.
By default, Internet Explorer keeps a list of visited pages for the last 20
days, but this period can be changed in the Internet Options dialog box, as
described in the History options section below.
The following sections describe the different views of the visited web
pages, how to search them, and history options.
Views
On the History page of the Favorites Center, the recently visited web pages
can have the following views:
By Date. The items at the top level of the tree view are a mixture of days
and weeks, for example, Today, Tuesday, Last Week. If you open one of these
items, then its children are the websites visited on that day/week. If you
open one of these websites, then its children are the web pages which you
visited on that website.
By Site. The items at the top level of the tree view are the recently
visited websites, and these are sorted alphabetically. If you open one of
these websites, then its children are the web pages which you visited on
that website.
By Most Visited. A list of the most visited web pages, with the most visited
web page at the top of the list.
By Order Visited Today. A list of the web pages visited today, with the most
recent at the top.
To change the view of the recently visited web pages:
TAB or SHIFT + TAB to the toolbar of the Favorites center.
Press LEFT ARROW to move to the History split button.
Press DOWN ARROW to open the History menu, and choose one of the views.
Search History
TAB or SHIFT + TAB to the toolbar of the Favorites center.
Press LEFT ARROW to move to the History split button.
Press DOWN ARROW to open the menu, and choose Search History.
In the Search for edit box, type in your search terms, and press ENTER.
TAB twice to move to the list of web pages which have been found, and press
ENTER to open one of them.
History Options
To set the number of days Internet Explorer keeps visited web pages in
History:
Open the Internet Options dialog which is on the Tools menu.
On the General page, press the Settings button in the Browsing history
section of the page.
A Temporary Internet Files and History dialog opens. In the History section,
you can change the “Days to keep pages in history” edit spinbox. Press ENTER
to press the default OK button.
You're returned to the Internet Options dialog box. TAB to the OK button and
press it.
Feeds
Feeds are used by websites to inform anyone who is interested that new
content is available. They are also known as RSS feeds, and web feeds.
When a website has some new content, it can put information about this as a
new item in a feed, which is just a file which available from the website.
If you tell a feed reader, such as the feed reader in IE7, to monitor that
feed, then it checks the feed at regular intervals and downloads and stores
any new items. Every so often, you can open your feed reader, check whether
there are any new items in any of the feeds that you're monitoring, and read
them.
Feeds can contain information about different types of new content: News and
blog feeds contain information about new articles, whereas podcast feeds
contain information about new audio files which are available. Internet
Explorer can be used both for news/blog feeds and podcast feeds.
The feeds which a feed reader monitors are known as subscribed feeds, even
though normally no money is involved. The following sections describe how to
find feeds, subscribe to feeds, and then view and manage these subscribed
feeds.
Finding feeds
There are two ways of finding feeds:
Using Internet Explorer's feed detection, which is described below.
On some web pages there are links to feeds.
When you move to a web page, if Internet Explorer detects that there are
feeds available, then:
Jaws version 8 and above says RSS Feeds.
There's an option in Internet Explorer to make a sound, as described in the
Feed Settings dialog section below.
For sighted users, the Feeds button on the second toolbar changes colour.
If you press the Feeds menu button on the second toolbar (ALT + J) a menu
opens which contains the available feeds. There are a couple of reasons why
there may be more than one feed available on a web page:
Feeds can be in two different main formats, RSS and Atom, so a web page may
offer the same feed in both formats. Internet Explorer can read both
formats, so just choose either of them.
A web page may have feeds with different content, for example a news feed,
an article feed, and a podcast feed.
Choose one of these feeds, and you're taken to a feed page, where there's an
option to subscribe to the feed, as described in the next section.
Subscribing to feeds
If you choose a feed from the Feed menu (ALT + J) or open a link to a feed,
then you're taken to a feed page, which contains the feed items which are
currently in the feed file on the web.
At the beginning of the page, there's a short section about subscribing to
the feed. This is followed by the items currently in the feed, and each item
has a level 2 heading.
If you decide that you want to subscribe to the feed:
Either open the “Plus Button Subscribe to this feed” link, which is near the
top of the page, or choose Subscribe to this Feed from the Tools menu.
A Dialog opens, which has the title Internet Explorer. The first control is
the name of the feed which will appear in your list of feeds. If you want to
change the name, just type in a new name to overwrite the existing text.
Then press ENTER to press the default Subscribe button.
You are returned to the feed page, and at the top is some text telling you
that you've successfully subscribed to the feed.
Once you've subscribed to a feed, Windows checks the feed at regular
intervals, and if it finds any new items that it hasn't previously saved, it
saves them. A new feed is set to use the default update schedule, which by
default is once a day. If necessary you can easily change the update
schedule for a feed using the Feed Properties dialog box.
Viewing subscribed feeds
To open a subscribed feed:
Press CTRL + J to open the Feeds page of the Favorites centre.
In the tree view of your subscribed feeds, feeds which have new content are
indicated by having the word new in parenthesis after the feed name.
If you're impatient, and want to check whether new content is available for
one or more of the feeds since the last automatic update, you can perform a
manual update by choosing either Refresh or Refresh All from the shortcut
menu of a feed.
Select the feed you want to open, and press ENTER. (Or alternatively press
ESC to close the Favorites Center.)
You're taken to a feed page, which contains the saved feed items for your
subscribed feed. The structure of this page is described in the next
section.
Note that if you read any documentation about feeds in IE7 which doesn't
involve the use of a screen reader, then you'll find that IE7 normally
indicates that a feed has new content by making the feed name bold. However,
in the presence of a screen reader, new content is also indicated by the
word new in parenthesis after the feed name.
Feed pages
A feed page contains the following:
A link to the web page or website providing the feed.
Items in the feed. Each item starts with a level 2 heading. The structure of
items in both news/blog and podcast feeds are described in the following
sections.
An edit box and links for searching, controlling the display of, and sorting
the feed items. These are described in the Searching and sorting feed items
section below.
If there are new items, then initially only these items are displayed. To
view all the items, open the All link near the bottom of the page (ALT + L,
then ENTER).
Items in a news/blog feed
The name of the item, which is a level 2 heading and a link to the full
article on the web.
Date and time when the item was published.
The link graphic “Go to full article”.
Either the full article, the beginning of the article, or a summary of the
article.
Items in a podcast feed
The name of the item, which is a level 2 heading and a link to the audio
file on the web.
Date and time when the item was published.
The link graphic “Go to full article”, which is a link to the audio file on
the web.
A brief description of the podcast.
Open attached file something.mp3 link graphic, which is a link to the audio
file. See the following discussion as to it's location.
The location of the audio file pointed to by the Open attached file link
depends on whether you've chosen to automatically download attached files in
the Feed's properties, as described in the Feed properties dialog section:
If you've chosen the option to automatically download, the audio file should
be on disk, and there should be the word downloaded in parenthesis after the
link. Use this link to open the audio file, otherwise you'll needlessly
download the file again. Your default mp3 player will open and start playing
the file.
If you haven't chosen the option to automatically download, and the audio
file is still available on the web, then when you open any of the links to
the audio file, your default mp3 player will open and start downloading and
playing the file.
Searching and Sorting feed items
At the bottom of a feed page there are an edit box and some links for
searching and sorting the feed items. The easiest way to move to these is to
press E to move the the edit box, and then navigate from there.
Near the bottom of the page, there is:
The text “Displaying”, followed by two numbers separated by a slash. The
first number is the items currently being displayed, and the second is the
total number of items.
An edit box for searching the feed items, which is described in the next
section.
The link All, followed by the total number of items. To view all items, open
this link or press ALT + L.
If there are new items, then there is a New link, followed by the number of
new items.
The text Sort by:, followed by the links Date, Title, and Author. For each
of these criteria, the items can be sorted in ascending or descending order.
Repeatedly opening one of these links toggles between the these two options.
Initially, the items are displayed in date order, with the most recent at
the top.
If the items in the feed have category tags, then there is the text “Filter
by category”, followed by links for the categories. If you open a category
link, then only the items in that category are displayed.
Searching feed items
Press E to move to the edit box.
Press ENTER to go into Forms mode, and then type in one or more search
terms.
Press CTRL + HOME to move to the top of the page, and then use the quick
navigation key H to move through the results.
Managing subscribed feeds
First, press CTRL + J to open the Feeds page of the Favorites Center, then:
To rename a selected feed, choose Rename from its shortcut menu or press F2,
type in the new name, and press ENTER.
To delete a selected feed, press delete. A message box with the title
Internet Explorer opens, asking whether you're sure. Press ENTER to press
the Yes button. Note that the Favorites center will now be closed (unless
it's pinned open) so if you want to get back to your feeds, you'll have to
press CTRL + J again.
To edit the properties of a feed, including it's update schedule, choose
Properties from its shortcut menu. The Feed properties dialog opens, and is
described in the next section.
To move a selected feed up or down the tree at the same level, press ALT +
UP ARROW or ALT + DOWN ARROW respectively.
To create a new folder at the top level of the tree, select any feed or
closed folder at this level, and choose Create New Folder from its shortcut
menu. Type in a name for the folder, and then press ENTER. The dialog which
opens when you subscribe to a feed contains a Create in combo box, which
allows you to place a new feed in a folder.
To move a selected feed or folder to another folder, choose Cut from its
shortcut menu, select the folder where you want to move it to, and choose
Paste from its shortcut menu.
Feed Properties dialog
You can change the properties of a feed, including its update schedule,
using the Feed Properties dialog. To open this dialog, select a feed in the
Feeds page of the Favorites Center (CTRL + J), and choose Properties from
its shortcut menu. Some of the settings in this dialog are described in the
following sections.
Update schedule
In the Update schedule section of the dialog, there's a set of two radio
buttons which allows you to choose between the default schedule, and a
custom schedule:
To use the default schedule, set the Use default schedule radio button. If
you want to change the default schedule, then TAB to the Settings button and
press it. A Feed Settings dialog opens, where you can change the frequency
of update using the Every combo box. Note that changing the default schedule
affects all feeds which are set to use the default schedule.
To use a custom schedule, set the Use custom schedule radio button, and then
TAB twice to the Frequency combo box, where you can set the frequency of
update.
Automatically download attached files
Also in the Update schedule section, there's an “Automatically download
attached files” checkbox which is relevant for podcast feeds. If this is
checked, then Internet Explorer automatically downloads and saves the audio
files referred to in the new feed items. If you set this, you'll probably
want to change the maximum number of items saved for the feed from the
default value of 200, as described in the next section.
If the checkbox is unchecked, an audio file is downloaded from the web when
you open a link to an audio file in a feed item, providing that the audio
file is still available.
Maximum number of items saved
In the Archive section of the dialog, there is a pair of radio buttons which
let you set the maximum number of items saved:
Keep maximum items (2500).
keep the most recent items only. This is followed by an edit spinbox for
setting the number.
Feed Settings dialog
To open the Feed Settings dialog, open the Internet Options dialog on the
Tools menu, and then on the Content page press the Settings button in the
Feeds section. Alternatively, the dialog can be opened from the Feed
Properties dialog, as described in the previous section.
Default schedule
In the default schedule section, there's an “Automatically check feeds for
updates” checkbox, which by default is checked. Following this is an Every
combo box, which you can use to set the frequency of the updates. After
installing Internet Explorer, this is set to 1 day. If you change the value,
then this affects all your subscribed feeds which are set to use the default
schedule.
Play a sound when a feed is found
In the Advanced section there's a “Play a sound when a feed is found for a
webpage” checkbox. By default it's unchecked, but if you really want to, you
can check it.
Internet Options dialog
The Internet Options dialog is a multi-page dialog, and you can open it by
choosing Internet Options on the Tools menu (ALT + T, then O).
Some of the options are covered in the relevant sections of the guide:
Tabbed browsing. You can open the Tabbed Browser Settings dialog by pressing
the the Settings button in the Tabs section of the General page. See the
Tabbed browsing options section above.
History. To open the Temporary Internet Files and History dialog, press the
Settings button in the Browsing history section of the General page. See the
History Options section above.
Feeds. To open the Feeds Settings dialog, on the Content page, press the
Settings button in the Feeds section. See the Feed settings dialog section
above.
Browser home page
To set the browser's home page:
Navigate to the web page you want as your home page.
Open the Internet Options dialog, which is on the Tools menu.
The dialog should open on the General page. The first control is an edit box
which contains the address of your current home page. TAB to the Use Current
button, and press ENTER to change the home page. TAB down to the OK button
at the bottom of the dialog box and press it.
Customise your settings pages
The first time you run Internet Explorer 7 after you've installed it, you're
automatically taken to a web page which has brief descriptions of some of
the new features, and which leads to a number of pages where you have to
choose a small number of settings.
The title of this page is Customize Your Settings, and the opening text
thanks you for choosing Internet Explorer 7.
Go to the bottom of the page (CTRL + END). Jaws reads the last line as
“Choose your settings, clickable on mouse over”. Press ENTER to click this,
and you're taken to the next page.
The opening text of the second page is Setup is quick and easy. Read down
the page a line at a time. The settings on this page are described in the
following steps.
There is one required setting, which allows you to choose your default
search provider. There is a set of radio buttons with two options. It's
simpler to choose the “Keep my current default search provider” option — if
you need to change your default search provider, you can do this later as
described in the Search box section. You can set this option using the
SPACEBAR without having to go into Forms mode.
There is then the first of 4 optional settings. It's worth setting the
first, but you can ignore the other three, which are in fact on different
pages. This first optional setting has a checkbox for whether the automatic
Phishing Filter is turned on. The Phishing Filter filters out hoax websites
that try and trick you into entering important personal details such as bank
account numbers. It's recommended that you check this option.
After the Phishing Filter checkbox, there's a clickable graphic which could
take you to the other optional settings. Ignore it, and read the following
line which is the bottom line of the page. Jaws reads this line as “Save
your settings, clickable on mouseover”. Press ENTER to click this, and
you're taken to the next page.
The opening text of the the third page tells you that your settings have
been saved successfully, and you're ready to go. From now on, when you open
Internet Explorer, you'll be taken to your Home page.
Keystrokes
General
Command Keystrokes
Select address bar ALT + D
Select the search box CTRL + E
Open the search options menu CTRL + DOWN ARROW
Go to home page ALT + HOME
Go backward ALT + LEFT ARROW
Go forward ALT + RIGHT ARROW
Go to Information bar ALT + N
Refresh page F5
Stop downloading web page ESC
Cycle through first toolbar, second toolbar, and web page or information bar
if displayed F6
Cycle through groups of controls on the first and second toolbars, the
Information bar if displayed, and the links and controls on the web page.
TAB
Favorites, History, and Feeds
Command Keystrokes
Open favorites page of Favorites Center CTRL + I
Add to favorites CTRL + D
Open history page of Favorites Center CTRL + H
Open feeds page of Favorites Center CTRL + J
Available feeds on a page ALT + J
Close Favorites Center (if not pinned open) ESC
Tabbed browsing
Command Keystrokes
Open new tab CTRL + T
Open link in new foreground tab CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER
Open link in new background tab CTRL + ENTER
Open new tab from Address bar or Search box ALT + ENTER
Switch to next tab CTRL + TAB
Switch to previous tab CTRL + SHIFT + TAB
Open the tab list menu CTRL + SHIFT + Q
Close tab CTRL + W, or CTRL + F4
Close all tabs except current tab CTRL + ALT + F4
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