[vip_students] Jaws on the web: Useful guides number 1!
- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:46:15 +0100
Hi All,
I have been looking over some very good jaws tutorials on the FS web site in
relation to using jaws on the web and have been trying to just summarise
them into a shorter detail.
Navigating Web Pages
JAWS makes reading Web pages easy. When you visit a page with Internet
Explorer, JAWS immediately begins reading the page from the top down. In
this section, you will learn about Navigation Quick Keys, reading text, and
navigating headings, lists, links, and images.
Reading Text
JAWS uses the Virtual Cursor to read and move through HTML pages. The
Virtual Cursor is invisible to sighted users, but JAWS users can use this
cursor to read and select text and move to different elements on the page.
The commands used to read Web pages are the same as the commands used to
read text in any other type of document. You can also select and copy text
on Web pages. If you go to the web site of Freedom Scientific at
www.freedomscientific.com it demonstrates the layout and content of a
typical Web page on the Internet.
(Reading Text On The Internet)
To practice reading text on the Internet with JAWS, do the following:
Press INSERT+F7 to display a list of links on the FreedomScientific page.
Make sure the link "support"is selected and press ENTER. This opens the
sample page in a separate Internet Explorer window. You can hold down ALT
and press TAB to switch back to this window and refer to these instructions.
JAWS remembers where you are on the page, so you won't lose your place.
When the page loads, JAWS begins reading it. Press CTRL+HOME to move to the
top of the page.
Note: If there are paragraphs of text on a web page you can use the "letter
P" to jump through the various paragraphs. Also "Shift + letter P" will
take you back in reverse order through the same paragraphs of text.
.
These commands are useful enough when you are trying to move through news
stories on a newspaper web site.
Tip: The letter P is a Navigation Quick Key that lets you move by paragraph
through the page. There are other Navigation Quick Keys that let you move
through all the headings, links, images, and other elements on the page. If
you hold SHIFT when you press one of these keys, JAWS moves to the previous
element. For example, pressing SHIFT+P moves you to the previous paragraph.
(Hyperlinks)
A hyperlink (or "link" for short) is text that performs some action when you
click it or select it and press ENTER. You can move through all the links on
the page by pressing the TAB key, or using the jaws keys of "jaws key + F7".
To see how JAWS helps you navigate links, do the following:
Open the page http://www.google.com and press CTRL+HOME to move to the top
of the page.
Press U to move to the first unvisited link on the page. An unvisited link
is one that leads to page or location that you have not visited.
Press V to move to the next visited link on the page. A visited link is one
that you have previously activated or one that leads to a page you have
visited recently.
Note: You may find that when you try pressing the "letter V" you will find
nothing happens. This is usually because you may not have visited any links
on htis page just yet.
Press INSERT+F7 to display a list of all links on the page.
Arrow down through this list of links presented to you and hit enter key on
whichever one you want to go into.
(Link Clusters)
Many Web pages use clusters of links to consolidate page navigation in a
single spot. If you wanted to continue reading down the page without using
any of these links, you could skip over them by pressing N. The Navigation
Quick Key N moves you to the next block of text that is not a link.
So if you are down arrowing through a web page and suddenly come to a group
of links all clustered together then use the letter "N" to jump that group
and continue on your way. Perhaps this would be useful if you wre only
interested in reading the text on a page and not wanting to go into any of
the various links presented on that page.
(Email links)
Open up internet explorer and then press keys, "alt + D" this jumps you into
the address bar where you can type in a web address or even copy and paste
one into it.
Type in the following website address:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/support.asp
When the page opens up
Press INSERT+F7 again. Now arrow down through the list till you come to the
link that says: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is their support email address link.
Now press ALT+M to move to this link. JAWS says, "Send mail link," to
indicate that this link allows you to send a message to an e-mail address
using your default mail program.
(Skip to Main Content Links)
Some Web pages have special links with names like "Skip to Main Content" or
"Skip Navigation." These same page links allow you to quickly jump past site
navigation tools, such as menus, navigation bars, and so on and go directly
to the important information on the page. These types of links usually
appear at the beginning of the page and are often invisible to sighted
users.
Hope you find the above notes useful.
Regards,
Paul.
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