Great, thanks a lot, Reg! I know some people who I am going to send this to, as it has all of the basics in one place. Nancy Van Sandt The MaxVan Menagerie ----- Original Message ----- From: Reginald George To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:21 AM Subject: [real-eyes] 5 Wonderful JAWS Tips The following information is shamelessly borrowed from the latest Freedom Scientific Newsletter. It contains much of what I use to train folks to get the most productivity from using JAWS on the internet and, the last tip I wasn't even aware of. Using the N key in E-mails is helpful for skipping lots of addresses as well. Please don't forget to use insert H and insert W to help you remember all those important program hot keys in Internet Explorer and Outlook. Enjoy! Please consider passing this on to those you think might benifit from this information. Reg From the Training Department: Five Tips for Navigating Web Pages with JAWS We've all been there, right? You're browsing the Web with JAWS, looking for the perfect birthday present for Aunt Mable or researching some last minute information for a school report, and you just can't seem to find information that you know is on a Web page. You stumble around, scrolling through the page, and it seems as if there are a million links, graphics, and advertisements - but none of it is useful to you. These five tips may help you find what you are looking for on those huge and cluttered Web pages. Listen Carefully to JAWS when a New Page Loads We all get "Control key happy" sometimes, and we just want to press it to make JAWS hush up. However, when a Web page finishes loading, JAWS will announce information about the page that can be very useful. JAWS will always announce the number of links on a page, and will also announce the number of frames and headings, if they exist. This gives us some idea of the size of the page. . H is for "Heading" Sometimes Web page designers use headings to separate pages into sections. You can use JAWS to quickly read the headings on a page. This may help you to find the content you are looking for - or at least get an idea of how the page is organized. Press H to make JAWS cycle through and read all the headings on a page. You can also bring up a list of all headings by pressing INSERT+F6. You can navigate to the heading you want to move to and then press ENTER. If the page is laid out with a logical hierarchy of headings, this can be a really easy way to find what you are looking for. Putting the N Back in Navigation Many pages contain large navigation menus with links designed to help users quickly move to different pages on a site. Listening to these links every time you visit a new page on a site can become very tiring and can take up valuable time. Fortunately, JAWS allows you to quickly jump past a group of links by pressing the letter N. Each time you press N, JAWS moves to the next block of text that is not a link. The default behavior of JAWS is to look for a block of text that is at least 25 characters long that is not a link. This length can be changed in the HTML Options section of the Configuration Manager. For example, if you were searching for a CD on www.amazon.com, you could press the N key several times to move to the search results, instead of scrolling down with the arrow keys through hundreds of links. This technique is effective on any page with lots of links that you want to quickly move past. Let the JAWS Find Work for You Why should you have to scroll down through an entire Web page just to find a certain word or phrase? The JAWS Find can do that for you. Press CTRL+F to open the JAWS Find dialog box, and type in the word or phrase you want to locate on the page. Press ENTER, and let JAWS do the work. If JAWS finds the text you searched for, you will immediately be taken to that spot on the page. You can then press F3 or SHIFT+F3 to cycle forward or backward through other instances of your search string on the page. Using the example of finding a CD on amazon.com again, if you've selected a CD and land on the page with the CD information and track listing, you could use the JAWS Find to move directly to the track list rather than trying to find it on your own. You could simply search for "1" because it's safe to assume that the number one will be in front of the first track name. This quick trick can save tons of time. Ever Heard of INSERT+F3? This keystroke often gets lost in the shuffle, and can be quite handy. Pressing INSERT+F3 brings up the Virtual HTML Features dialog box. This is a list of all the different page elements you would find on a Web page. Pressing ENTER on any of the items in the list will display a list of those particular items found on the page. To view a list of tables on a page, just choose "Tables list" in the dialog box. To view a list of paragraphs, choose "Paragraphs list." To view a list of form fields, choose "Form fields list." All of these lists can be activated through other keystrokes but with the INSERT + F3, you don't need to remember all those other keystrokes. Remember, when dealing with Web pages, be patient, persistent, and try and find patterns to help you find the information you are seeking. You'll also find additional tips and techniques for navigating Web pages with JAWS on Freedom Scientific's Surf's Up Web page. http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/Surfs_Up/_Surfs_Up_Start_Here.htm