[Trainer-talk] exploring with pages with JAWS

Dr. Denise M Robinson deniserob at gmail.com
Wed May 15 16:50:33 UTC 2013


Also be aware that it depends on the focus of the page in IE on if you do
the ctrl F and whether you will put up the find of IE or the find of
Jaws...if IE, just close the box, alt tab off and come back then do it
again and the focus will go to jaws find
Denise

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Julie Adkins <jadkins at mabnc.org> wrote:

> Oh, I was wondering about that.  Since a lot of time can pass between JAWS
> clients for me, I could not remember which way I had typically taught it.
> Several months ago I had someone who, when he pressed Control + F, just got
> a Find dialog within Internet Explorer itself, which would go find the text
> visually (with a yellow highlight block), but not actually move the cursor
> there.  So I trained him to use the Insert + Control + F.  I thought he had
> Internet Explorer 9, but it must have been 8.  Last night I tried the
> regular Control + F on my home computer with JAWS on, and saw that it
> worked
> fine.  I was feeling really confused.  Thanks for clearing that up.  That's
> why I love having these listservs!!
>
> Julie Adkins
>
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> Julie
> Great notes.
> Two quick observations. First. in a browser, since Jaws 9 or 10, I can't
> recall it's been a while since my FS days, pressing control f, is the same
> as pressing control INS F, try it, you'll hear both say jaws find. This may
> be less keystroke intensive on a new keyboard user. Second, if the user has
> followed your first step of moving to the top of a web page with control
> Home, it's probably just as easy at this point to press E for the search
> field, as pressing control INS home. Just thought I'd mention these as
> there's always more than one way to skin a cat.
>
>
> On 5/14/13, Julie Adkins <jadkins at mabnc.org> wrote:
> > Attached you will find some "reminder" notes I just typed up for a
> > JAWS client.  Just something basic to give a student that he or she
> > can refer back to.  You are welcome to use it.
> >
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