Re: help for IE 8Re: Settings for IE8
- From: "Douglas Richard Dexheimer" <drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:51:06 -0600
I'm not sure this information works with Windows XP Pro?
Douglas Richard Dexheimer
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Vaughn" <jrvaughn44@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 7:13 PM
Subject: help for IE 8Re: Settings for IE8
List, here are some help items for IE 8 that I pulled together when I was
trying to understand IE 8 and Tab browsing. I like the ability to have
additional tabs open as I can cycle through such tabs using the control
plus tab command to flip through my open internet web pages. It is
particulary nice to have multiple tabs open when you are looking at web
sites that might let you compare this or that. This said, I understand
folks who say that this or that works for me best and I commend you for
that perspective. I have been a Jaws user for 21 years since Jaws 1 for
Dox and at times, you just do not want to learn anything new.
John, in cool night time southwest florida
Jaws windows 7 IE 8 short cut keys
Internet Explorer 8
IE 8 is a tabbed browser. You can have many web pages opened at a time.
Control key plus T - open new blank tab and you are in the address field
to type in a new address or
Control key plus letter I - open "favorites" list
Control key plus tab -cycle through open tabs
Control key plus 9 on numbers row - go to last tab visited
Control key plus numbers 1-8 - go to various tabs opened and running
Control key plus F4 - close only current tab
Control key plus W - close only current tab
Control key plus alt plus F4 - close all tabs except current tab
Control key plus letter Q - open quick tabs (all current internet windows
are placed side by side in a multi column list and you can use the arrow
keys to move around to the one you want to open and press enter) to open
it.
In IE 8, you can have multiple home pages. To change, add or remove a
home page:
Alt key plus letter M - this puts you in a list with the current home
page(s), add-change and remove a web page from the home page list.
If you are on a web page you want to make a home page, press alt key plus
letter m and down arrow to add and press enter. You are in a dialogue
that you tab through to a couple of check boxes and you are asked if you
want this to be the only home page oradditional home page. . Press enter
on yes or no and the change is made or the web page is added to your list
of home pages.
To eliminate a web page from your list, down arrow to remove and press
enter and you down arrow to the web page you want to remove and press
enter on the page.
You also have a choice to remove them all.
If you have a number of home pages, to access the list, use alt plus
letter M to bring up the list, down arrow to the one you want and press
enter. Press escape to exit.
This could be a handy tool if you want to monitor a group of web pages and
want to be able to quickly load the pages after you open IE.
In addition to the alt key plus letter M command, you can still
add/change/remove home page items from the tools menue and options menue
within tools in IE8.
Alt key plus home key, loads and moves you to your home page from within
any web page.
Finding text on a web page
Control key plus letter F or F3 key brings up a edit field in a dialogue
box. You can type in word or string of words for the "find" command to
search for on the web page.
Carrot browsing
F7 key toggles carrot browsing on or off.
This may make selecting and copying text easier to do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Settings for IE8
Hi Marsha,
You wrote:
Hi
I am using Jaws 10 the latest update. I guess I don't really
understand the benefit of tab browsing. If you have a bunch of tabs open
what is the difference between that and having windows open? Not being
dificult but just don't understand.
Here's a way to look at it, and perhaps it will help you clarify things
a bit.
If I open separate browser windows for Google and the L.A. Times, for
example, I need to alt+tab between them if I want to switch focus from one
to the other. Depending on how things are set up, I'll then have two
separate entries in the Task Bar: one for Google and the other for the
L.A. Times. If memory serves, each browser window is, for all intents and
purposes, like a new browser session. So, I could proceed from my Google
window, follow a link to a search result, look at that page and follow a
link to yet another page, and another and another, without affecting the
other open browser window.
At the L.A. Times window, I could follow a link to a news story, read it,
move on to yet another page such as the New York Times, then another
newspaper site, and so on, without affecting the previous path that I'd
followed in the other browser window starting at the Google page.
From a practical standpoint, opening a new tab works the same way, but
instead of using alt+tab to switch focus, I'll use ctrl+tab instead, and,
if I look at the task bar, I'll see only one entry for my browser which
shows the currently open tab.
I can't comment on what happens visually, but I would imagine that when I
open separate browser windows as opposed to tabs, I could take those
separate browser windows and place them side-by-side on screen (tile them)
or overlap them somewhat (cascade them), or send one to the background and
bring the other to the foreground.
I don't know if I can do that with browser tabs, but I would suspect that
I could if I wanted to.
I'll have to ask a sighted guy if there are advantages to tabbed
browsing versus separate browser windows. For me personally, either
method is satisfactory.
Hopefully all this didn't confuse you even further.
Tom
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