[nabs-l] using jaws for school

Tue Nov 19 17:34:21 UTC 2013

Does anyone have ideas of resources to learn jaws from scratch? I use the Mac currant lot but would love to learn jaws as well.

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> On Nov 18, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> 
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>> Kaiti
>> 
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