Jim, thanks for the written tutorials you have done lately. I save them all
for reference. They are easy to search for specific information when I need
to perform a certain task.
So thanks again and keep producing these wonderful text tutorials since they
are so useful and appreciated.
Sherrie Gosling
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From: Louise Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 11:08 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] The insert and escape keys,your best friend part
two
Hi Jim I also want to thank you for putting them together. There simple and
easy to understand. I am keeping them to go over when I want to learn more.
I learn a few things at a time and this helps as I can learn some and then
go back and learn more Louise and princess Kiara who says mom is always at
that computer
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Behalf Of Tom Behler
Sent: February 14, 2017 4:34 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] The insert and escape keys, your best friend part
two
Jim:
I want to publicly thank you for all the effort you are putting into these
little tutorials you have developed.
They seem to be very useful, and I have saved them for future reference.
Thanks again, Jim!
Dr. Tom Behler from Michigan
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Subject: [JAWS-Users] The insert and escape keys, your best friend part two
The Insert and Escape keys, your best friend part two.
So useing the laptop keyboard layout in Jaws is an advantage, not a
drawback.
Again for this lesson I will call the capslock key the Jaws key and the
numpad insert key, the insert key.
For example: For some Jaws keystrokes you must use the numpad insert key
instead of the capslock key, plus a letter on the keyboard to accomplish a
task.
Example, If you are running Jaws from the system trey, Pressing numpad
Insert+J, Brings up the JAWS options menu window, with the options sub
Insert+menu
highlighted for you.
Pressing the capslock key, JAWSKey+J, Moves to the prior word and speaks it.
Another example, Pressing the Numpad Insert+H, Places JAWS Hot Keys in the
Virtual Viewer.
You can review them with the Arrow keys, and press the Escape key to close
this window.
Pressing the Caplocks key JAWSKey+H, speaks the current sentence.
So it's very nice to have another Jaws modifier key, to use when pressing
Jaws keystrokes involving the pressing of many keys on the keyboard.
**Now let us look at how to use Jaws layered keystrokes, Insert+Spacebar,
followed by a letter.
This means when you press Insert+Spacebar, you will hear a ding sound, you
then can press a certain letter or key to open one of the many options for
the Jaws layered keystrokes.
For example: Pressing Insert+Spacebar, followed by the ? Question mark, you
will hear:
Search commands press J.
Repeat last background notification from Skype press Shift+R.
Show recent speech history press H.
Clear recent speech history press Shift+H.
View text on clipboard press C.
Select text between marked place and current position press M.
Customize web page with Flexible Web press X.
ResearchIt press R.
OCR Feature Layer press O.
Table Navigation Layer press T.
Switch to your recent Windows Live Messages press Number row 1 through 5.
Text Analyzer press A.
Mute Synthesizer press S.
Lock Keyboard press L.
Toggle audio ducking press D.
So let us look at most of these layered keystrokes one at a time.
**Pressing either the Numpad Insert+Spacebar, or the Capslock Jaws
key+Spacebar, followed by the letter J, opens the search for Jaws
key+commands
window.
For example, after pressing Insert+Spacebar, followed by J, You are in a
Jaws search for commands edit box, type the word copy, press the tab key,
you are put in a Jaws HTML page of results.
You can use the Arrow keys or H, for heading or Insert+F7, for a Links list,
press the Escape key to close this window.
Below is an example of what comes up, when you type the word copy in to the
Jaws search for commands edit box, and press the Tab key, I have shortened
the results.
*Copy Selected Text To Clipboard. Control + C
Standard Windows copy command, usually found in the Edit menu, any selected
text or items will be copied to the Windows Clipboard. The selected items or
text can then be pasted into another window or application.
*View Clipboard Text. Insert + Space, C
The Clipboard Text Viewer displays all text that has been copied to the
Windows Clipboard using the standard Windows Copy and Cut commands.
*Virtualize Window. Alt + Insert + W
This keystroke displays the text in the current window in the Virtual
Viewer. You can then select the text and copy and paste it to another
application, such as an e-mail message. This is especially useful in error
dialog boxes.
*Select Text Between Marked Place And Current Position. Insert + Space, M
This command selects text between the temporary Placemarker and current
virtual cursor location. You may then use Control+c to copy the selected
text to the clipboard.
*For example: on a website, press Control+Windows+k, to set a temporary
Placemarker at the beginning of the text to be copied.
At the end of the text to be copied, press Insert+Spacebar, followed by M,
all the text in-between has been selected, press Control+C to copy all the
text.
*Append Selected Text To Clipboard. Insert + Windows + C
With the Freedom clipboard, text will be appended to the clipboard, adding
it to the clipboard at the end of the previous clipboard content. Using a
Copy To Clipboard command instead of an Append To Clipboard command will
erase any previous clipboard content and replace it with the new content.
**To show recent speech history from Jaws, press Insert+Spacebar, followed
by the letter H.
Begin pressing the up Arrow key to hear the most recent speech history of
Jaws.
Use the normal select and copy text commands to copy any part of the speech
history, press the Escape key to close this window.
**To Clear recent speech history press Insert+Spacebar, followed by Shift+H
together.
**To View text on clipboard press Insert+Spacebar followed by the letter C.
**To Select text between marked place and current position, press
Insert+Spacebar, followed by the letter M, I explained this above.
**to use ResearchIt press Insert+SpacebaR, followed by the letter R.
You will land in the edit box of research it, type your word or term, Tab
one time to the list of the look up sources, press enter on the correct one
you wish to use to llook up your word or term.
**To use the OCR Feature Layer press Insert+Spacebar, followed by the letter
O, followed by the letter W for window .
When the OCR Feature is finished, Jaws will speak with a different voice,
use your Arrow keys to review the screen.
**To use the Table Navigation Layer press Insert+Spacebar, followed by the
letter T.
For example, I went to the Yahoo group site.
I went to the top of the table for how many group messages there were for
the group.
I pressed Insert+Spacebar, followed by T, I used just the four Arrow keys to
read the Table.
I found out we have already had 333 group messages sent, in the month of
Febuary so far for the W-10 and Jaws group.
Press the Escape key to get out of the Table Navigation mode.
**to Mute the Jaws Synthesizer voice press Insert+Spacebar, followed by the
letter S.
To turn back on the Jaws Synthesizer voice, press Insert+Spacebar, followed
by the letter S.
**to Lock the Keyboard press Insert+Spacebar, followed by the letter L.
If you try and type why the keyboard is locked, you will hear the message,
press Insert+Spacebar, followed by the letter L, to unlock the keyboard.
Those are the main Jaws layered keystrokes, that I find that are the most
helpful.
**In Internet Explorer.
We have many Jaws Insert key commands to use while we are viewing a website
in Internet explorer.
**pressing Insert+F7, brings up a list of links on the page, pressing the
Escape key will close the Jaws links list.
Now after you have pressed Insert+F7, tab four times to, sort links in tab
order, radio button, or arrow down to, sort links Alphabetically, radio
button.
The radio button that you select, will change the order of links when you
press the Tab key, to go back to the Jaws link list.
**Pressing Insert+F7, and pressing the Shift+Tab one time, will put you on
three display links radio buttons, use the Arrow key to make your choice,
for the display of the results list, when you Tab one time back to the Jaws
links list.
You have three choices of radio buttons for what is displayed when you Tab
back to the Jaws links list.
Display all links, radio button.
Display visited links radio button.
Display unvisited links radio button.
**Pressing Insert+F3 while on an Internet explorer page, will open the
Virtual HTML features list, pressing the Escape key will close this window.
*For example after pressing Insert+F3, you will hear and see:
Virtual HTML Features dialog
Anchors List
Block Quotes List
Buttons List
Check Boxes List
Controls (Selectable ARIA, combo, lists and trees) List
Divisions List
Edit Boxes List
Form Fields List
Frames List
Graphics List
Headings List
Links List
List Items List
Lists List
Objects List
Paragraphs List
PlaceMarkers
Radio Buttons List,
Tables List
You can use the Arrow keys or use first letter navigation to quickly jump to
the item you want, press enter to bring up a list, of the selected item.
For example, press the letter H, to bring up a list of headings, press Enter
on the heading you wish to jump to on the web page.
**Pressing Insert+F6, will bring up the heading lists dialog, pressing the
Escape key will close this window.
Use your Arrow keys, or use first letter navigation to jump to the heading
you want, press Enter to jump to that heading on the web page.
**Pressing Insert+F5, will open the Select a form field dialog.
**Pressing Insert+F1, opens a Jaws help page you can read for quick help on
using Internet explorer.
Below is a short example of part of this help page.
This page contains 50 links.
there are 6 headings.
1 at level 1,
4 at level 2,
1 at level 4,
There is 1 form.
The address of the current page is https://www.bookshare.org/home
This is an HTML or PDF document.
You can use the standard JAWS reading commands or Navigation Quick Keys to
navigate and read this document. JAWS can also
display lists of certain elements on this page. For example, you can press
INSERT+F7 for a list of links, INSERT+F6 for a list of headings, or
INSERT+F5
for a list of form fields. In addition, if you hold down CTRL+INSERT while
pressing a Navigation Quick Key, JAWS displays a list of all elements of
that
type on the page.
**Pressing Insert+H, from any web page will bring up a list of Jaws
keystrokes you can use in Internet explorer, press the Escape key to close
this window.
Below is part of an example of what you will see.
Go Back a page, ALT+LEFT ARROW.
Read the Address bar, INSERT+A.
Next link, TAB.
Prior link, SHIFT+TAB.
Open a link, ENTER.
Display a list of links, Insert+F7.
Display and manage PlaceMarkers, Control+Shift+k.
Display a list of form fields, JAWSKey+F5.
Display a list of headings, Insert+F6.
Display a list of frames, JAWSKey+F9.
To move through a web page:
Next Radio Button, A.
Next Button, B.
Next ComboBox, C.
Next different element, D.
Next Edit, E.
Next Form Field, F.
Next Graphic, G.
Next Heading, H.
Next List Item, I.
Jump to a specific line with J,
And return to the starting point before the jump with Shift+J.
Next Place Marker, K.
Next List, L.
Next Frame, M.
Skip past links, N.
Next Object, O.
Next Paragraph, P.
Next Main Region, Q.
Next Region, R.
Next Same Element, S.
Next Table, T.
Next unvisited link, U.
Next visited link, V.
Next Checkbox, X.
Next Span element, Y.
Next Division, Z.
Next OnMouseOver element, ; (semicolon).
Add SHIFT to these commands to move to the prior item.
Add Control+JAWSKey to the applicable quick keys to bring up a list of that
element,
For example, Control+JAWSKey+z will bring up a list of the divisions on the
page.
**When using Internet explorer, Press and hold INSERT, then press F1 twice
quickly, to open help directly to the Internet Explorer topic. Press F6 to
move into the help topic window.
So when you hold down the Insert key and press F1 twice quickly, this opens
the Jaws HTML help file system with Internet explorer already selected, just
press the F6 key to open the Jaws HTML help system for using Internet
explorer, press ALT+f4 to close.
**Other Insert keystrokes for general use with Jaws.
**Say Top Line of Window INSERT+END.
**Say Bottom Line of Window INSERT+PAGE DOWN.
**Say Selected Text INSERT+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW.
**Say Application Version CTRL+INSERT+V.
This is a quick way to see what version you are using in any opened program.
**Press INSERT+CTRL+S to Select a Voice Profile.
If you have several voices for Jaws installed on your computer, this is a
quick way to switch from one voice back to another Jaws voice.
After pressing INSERT+CTRL+S, down Arrow to the voice you want to use, press
enter, Jaws will automatically switch to that selected voice, for you.
**Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, followed by the letter D to switch the Audio
Ducking Toggle on or off.
**Press INSERT+2, for Typing Echo Toggle
So each time you press Insert+2, this Changes the Typing Echo setting, The
four available choices for Typing Echo are characters, words, both
characters and words, or none.
**Pressing INSERT+3 Pass Key Through.
Some times you may need to press a certain key without Jaws interfering with
the key you need to press.
So you will press Insert+3, then press the keystroke you wish to use without
Jaws interfering with the keystroke.
**Press INSERT+CTRL+W to Open Word Index.
This is a quick way to see how many times different words are used on a web
page or in a document.
**Press INSERT+ALT+W, to Virtualize a Window.
You may need to vertualize a certain window, so you can select, copy and
paste the text into a email or a document.
**JAWS Keystrokes for Accessing Help.
*Screen Sensitive Help (INSERT+F1)
This keystroke places the current window or control information, what it is
used for, and some keystrokes that work in it in the virtual viewer. This
keystroke works in all cursor modes.
*Keyboard Help (INSERT+1)
Once this keystroke is pressed, press any other keystroke and JAWS will give
you information about what that keystroke does. Press the keystroke twice
quickly for detailed information. You must press INSERT+1 again to return
the keyboard to its normal function. Press the keystroke three times to hear
JAWS say and spell the name of the script attached to that keystroke.
*JAWS Help for Applications (INSERT+F1 pressed twice quickly)
This keystroke provides JAWS specific help for applications supported by
JAWS.
*Hot Key Help (INSERT+H)
This keystroke opens the virtual viewer and lists the JAWS keystrokes for
the current application.
*Window Key Help (INSERT+W)
This keystroke opens the virtual viewer and lists the Windows keystrokes for
the current application.
**Jaws Laptop keyboard keystrokes.
Even if you use a desktop system or keyboard, you may wish to try the Laptop
keyboard layout.
When using the Laptop keyboard layout, most of your commands are right at
your fingertips - as you type - so you do not need to continually switch
your right hand to the number pad and back to the main section of your
keyboard.
**Jaws Laptop Keystrokes for Reading Text and Information.
Description Command
Say Prior Character CAPS LOCK+M
Say Next Character CAPS LOCK+PERIOD
Say Character CAPS LOCK+COMMA
Say Character Phonetically CAPS LOCK+COMMA twice quickly
Say Prior Word CAPS LOCK+J
Say Next Word CAPS LOCK+L
Say Word CAPS LOCK+K
Spell Word CAPS LOCK+K twice quickly
Say Prior Line CAPS LOCK+U
Say Next Line CAPS LOCK+O
Say Line CAPS LOCK+I
Spell Current Line CAPS LOCK+I twice quickly
Say Prior Sentence CAPS LOCK+Y
Say Next Sentence CAPS LOCK+N
Say Sentence CAPS LOCK+H
Say Prior Paragraph CAPS LOCK+CTRL+U
Say Next Paragraph CAPS LOCK+CTRL+O (Note: For Internet Explorer, this
command opens a list that shows the objects available on the current Web
page. The HTML Object tag embeds content such as Flash movies, JAVA applets,
images, audio, and video.)
Say Paragraph CAPS LOCK+CTRL+I
Say to Cursor CAPS LOCK+HOME or CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+J
Say from Cursor CAPS LOCK+PAGE UP or CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+L
Spell to Cursor CAPS LOCK+HOME or
CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+J twice quickly
Spell from Cursor CAPS LOCK+PAGE UP or
CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+L twice quickly
Say All CAPS LOCK+A or CAPS LOCK+DOWN ARROW
Say Selected Text CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+A or CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
Say Color CAPS LOCK+5
Say Font CAPS LOCK+F
Say Top Line of Window CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+Y
Say Bottom Line of Window CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+N
Report Battery Level CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+B
Say ASCII or Hexadecimal Value CAPS LOCK+COMMA three times quickly
Say Current Table Cell ALT+SHIFT+COMMA
Move to Prior Table Cell ALT+SHIFT+M
Move to Next Table Cell ALT+SHIFT+PERIOD
Move Up One Table Cell ALT+SHIFT+Y
Move Down One Table Cell ALT+SHIFT+N
Start Skim Reading CTRL+CAPS LOCK+DOWN ARROW
Skim Reading dialog box CTRL+CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW.
Again all feedback is welcome at all times from all members.
Happy learning!
Jim.
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