[vip_students] JAWS Specific Touch Gestures!

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  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:44:58 +0100

For anyone who is using or planning on using a Windows 8.1 touch screen
device the below  list of JAWS specific touch gestures is a useful
reference;



JAWS Specific Touch Gestures
The following lists the available JAWS commands that can be performed using
touch gestures:
.       Flick Right or Left: Move to the next or prior object (Touch
Navigation), move to the next or prior character (Text Reading), or increase
or decrease the speech rate (Speech Settings).
.       Two-Finger Flick Right or Left: Cycle forward or backward through
object navigation types such as regions, headings, list items, and so on
(Touch Navigation) or move to the next or prior word (Text Reading).
.       Flick Down or Up: Move to the next or prior object by type as
specified using the two-Finger Flick Left or Right gesture (Touch
Navigation), move to the next or prior line (Text Reading), or decrease or
increase the main volume (Speech Settings).
.       Two-Finger Flick Up: Say the current object (Touch Navigation) or
move to the prior paragraph (Text Reading).
.       Two-Finger Flick Down: Begin a Say All (Touch Navigation) or move to
the next paragraph (Text Reading).
.       Three-Finger Flick Left or Right: Move to the beginning or end of
the current line in Text Reading.
.       Three-Finger Flick Up or Down: Move to the first or last object
(Touch Navigation) or move to the beginning or end of the text area (Text
Reading).
.       Two-Finger Swipe Right-Left: Same as pressing the ESC key on the
keyboard.
.       Two-Finger Swipe Up-Down: Close the current application.
.       Three-Finger Swipe Down: Scroll up.
.       Three-Finger Swipe Up: Scroll down.
.       Three-Finger Swipe Left: Scroll right.
.       Three-Finger Swipe Right: Scroll left.
.       Two-Finger Pinch In or Out: Enable or disable the Windows 8 Semantic
Zoom feature.
.       Two-Finger Tap: Silence speech.
.       Double Tap: Activate the currently selected object. For example, it
will expand or collapse a tree view, select or clear a check box, increase
the value in a slider control, or activate a button or link.
.       Two-Finger Double Tap: Same as pressing the APPLICATIONS key on the
keyboard to open a context menu.
.       Triple Tap: Select or clear an item in a list or decrease the value
in a slider control.
.       Three-Finger Double Tap: Toggle speech on or off.
.       Four-Finger Tap: Display gesture context help.
.       Four-Finger Double Tap: Display a list of all available JAWS
gestures.
.       Four-Finger Triple Tap: Enter a gesture practice mode where you can
perform gestures and receive a brief overview of each gesture. This is
similar to Keyboard Help.
.       Five-Finger Tap: Open the Run JAWS Manager dialog box.
.       Five-Finger Double Tap: Open the JAWS main window.




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