[Trainer-Talk] Regarding Heading Level Navigation Changes in JAWS 2019

[Wayne Merritt]

This is excellent news; thanks David for yours and other people's
advocacy. Another good example is when using Gmail in a web browser, I
have been frustrated by the lack of ability to search by heading 1 in
a section for some time now.

Best,
Wayne

On 5/5/19, Brad Snyder via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> How is this feature toggled on/off?
>
> - Brad -
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> On May 3, 2019, at 20:53, David Goldfield via Trainer-Talk
> <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> On April 30 Freedom Scientific released an update to JAWS 2019 with what I
> consider to be a welcome change and one which may have been implemented due
> partially to my suggesting it on the Leasey discussion group.
>
> Leasey, as some of you may know from previous messages I've written, is a
> third-party add-on which adds extra commands and features to JAWS. I
> requested a feature for Leasey which would optionally remove the restriction
> in heading navigation.
>
> Essentially, you know that you can press the letter H or shift-H to move to
> the next or previous heading on a Web page or in a Word document,
> respectively (when the virtual cursor has been enabled.) Headings can have
> up to six levels for various subheadings, referred to as heading level 1,
> heading level 2, etc. You can press the numbers 1-6 to jump to an individual
> heading level. However, there was a restriction imposed with this type of
> navigation where you could only navigate to that level in the current
> section.
>
> This is a bit difficult to explain but I'll try to provide an example.
> Suppose a Web page starts with a level 1 heading, which might contain the
> page's title. Below that is a level 2 heading beginning with a section,
> followed by several level 3 headings which are subsections of the article.
> Imagine that, following this, is a level 2 heading, followed by a level 3
> heading and then ending with a level 4 heading. If my virtual cursor was at
> the very top of the page, you would think that entering the number 4 would
> move the cursor to the beginning of the first level 4 heading. This is what
> would happen if you did this with NVDA but JAWS would say "no level 4
> headings in this section." I would first need to navigate to the level 2
> heading containing the level 4 subheading before I could press the number 4
> to move to the level 4 heading. If you feel that this is just way too much
> to process suffice it to say that you could not always press any number to
> move to that particular heading in all cases. NVDA didn't care about this.
> With NVDA you could press any heading level number and, assuming that the
> heading existed on the page, you would always be taken there. I was quite
> spoiled by this when I used NVDA as my primary screen reader and I never
> understood why FS chose to impose this restriction on JAWS users.
>
> Since Leasey is known for adding some really neat features not found in JAWS
> I wrote a message on the Leasey email discussion list and asked Brian
> Hartgen, one of the program's developers, if he might consider adding a
> feature which would, as an option, allow this restriction to be removed.
>
> Here is a part of a recent message from Brian, from the Leasey discussion
> group.
>
>
> "You will also notice that the new jaws 2019 update has the ability for a
> user to go straight to the heading of his or her choosing, even if it is not
> in the current HTML section. That suggestion was made on this particular
> list, and I pushed really hard for it to be done, so I’m hoping people find
> it useful."
>
>
> I have no doubt that others may have suggested this to FS and so I'm not
> saying that my suggestion was what got the feature implemented. However, I
> believe that I was the first to ask for it on the Leasey list since I bought
> the program last November. Other list members agreed that this was a good
> idea and Brian, unknown to me, engaged in quite a bit of advocacy to push
> for the feature to be added. It is now available in the April 2019 update
> for JAWS 2019 and I am absolutely thrilled to have the ability to navigate
> in this manner. I have already publicly thanked Brian Hartgen for his
> advocacy in getting the feature added, which is something that he did not
> have to do. I'm positively thrilled that this restriction in heading
> navigation can now be disabled, as an option, for users who want that type
> of freedom.
>
>
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> David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist
> WWW.David-Goldfield.Com<http://WWW.David-Goldfield.Com>
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