[nabs-l] using jaws for school

[Arielle Silverman]

My favorite JAWS shortcut is control-F for find. Just press control-F
and type a word that you want to find on the page. For example, if you
know you are reading an article about bats, and want to skip past all
the extraneous links and ads, you can type control-F, the word bats,
and then enter, and it'll take you straight to the first instance of
the word "bats" on the page. If you want to repeat the search and go
down to the next time your word appears, press F3 to re-run the
search. Best of luck!
Arielle

On 11/18/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> Welcome to the list!
>
> I use H a lot, plus N and P.  Insert F7 is a really handy command in
> instances when you know the link or series of links you'll need to use
> to get to a particular page, or if you're on a research site and want
> to see what the different pages linked to that page are to save time.
> It will bring up a dialog box that you can arrow through to avoid all
> the fluff.  There is also a read all command which you can use once
> you find a chunk of text you want to have read.  That command is jaws
> key+A.  That should save you a lot of down arrowing.
>
> Like most things, getting comfortable with jaws is just something that
> gets easier with practice.  Most people find that after a while they
> get annoyed with how slow the speech is and speed it up, so once you
> can understand quick speech and do that it won't take as long to get
> the information either.  Most of the people I know have their speaking
> rates at 65 percent or higher and mine is usually at 70, but these
> people and myself have all used jaws for years.  You'll get there
> though.  :)
>
> On 11/18/13, Tom Brown <tbrown.brl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/18/13, William Bowman <william.bowman38 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> My name is Will and I have a question for you all. I am in the 10th
>>> grade and I'm starting to use jaws to help me with my homework. I'm
>>> hoping you all can give me some advice. I have trouble on the internet
>>> finding information on a website with jaws. I feel like using it is
>>> slower than looking at the screen but I'm trying to avoid since it
>>> hurts my eyes.
>>>
>>> When I'm doing research online I don't always find information quickly
>>> on a new website and I want to know how you all quickly find new
>>> information with jaws. Most wbeiste I go to have tons of links and
>>> lots of content. I've been taught some of the quick comands like
>>> pressing letter h for headings and e for an edit field and insert plus
>>> enter to find text, but is there a faster way? I get frustrated with
>>> places i haven't been before because I don't always know where the
>>> information I want is, and I'm tired of having to arrow up and down
>>> through a site for 10 minutes to find what I want. Sometimes I'll find
>>> a story, but it will be interrupted by advertisements and stuff, and
>>> it takes me forever to figure out where I am. Does anybody have any
>>> advice? I'm trying to get better at it now so I don't have to worry
>>> about it in the future. Thanks, will.
>>>
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>> Hi Will,
>>
>> First of all, you have to understand that every website is not going
>> to be JAWS friendly. There will be some websites that are easy to
>> navigate, and there will be some that you can;'t navigate at all.
>> Personally, I use "H" to go through my headings. I also use "N," which
>> should take you past all of the links and ads that you don't want to
>> read. I also use "P," which takes you to paragraphs. Most of the
>> content in a website is in a paragraph, so that should work most of
>> the time.
>>
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