Hi Yvonne & Alan, Below is a note that I had saved regarding Karat Browsing.
FROM http://blogmines.com/blog/2009/07/15/what-is-caret-browsing-in-internet-explorer-8/ Caret Browsing is cool feature available in Internet Explorer 8. Rather than using a mouse to select text and move around within a webpage, you can use standard navigation keys on your keyboard-Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, and the arrow keys. This feature is called Caret Browsing and is named after the caret-or cursor-that appears when you edit a document. >From Yahoo: In computing, caret navigation is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as "text cursor", "text insertion cursor", or "text selection cursor") is used to navigate within a text document. It is a fundamental feature for applications that deal with text, for example text editors, word processors and desktop publishing programs. This kind of navigation is also supported by the Mozilla-based web browsers, where it is referred as "caret browsing". A shortcut key (F7) is assigned to toggle between caret mode and non-caret mode. In caret mode, a blinking caret appears within the webpage. User can then navigate the webpage using arrow keys. The navigation is finer than spatial navigation and tabbing navigation, which deals with hyperlinks only, but most times it is slower. so basically if you have a PSP or cellphone browser... that's what it becomes like.. where you can move up and down by using the arrow keys [they jump to the next link] to turn it off press F7 again... so all-in-all, its changing your settings on a webpage so you can navigate the page with the keyboard opposed to the mouse. >From me: We can already do this FASTER with JAWS. BTW: Caret Browsing is also available in FireFox. Hope this helps, somewhat!. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Robbins To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:10 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] online banking When one is hungry for vegetables? (just kidding, I have the same question) Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Yvonne Oliver Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:15 AM To: blind computing Subject: [Blind-Computing] online banking hi I use online banking and sometimes when I try to press insert F7 I hit the wrong key and get a message saying carat browsing can anyone tell me just what carat browsing is and what it does? is it any advantage thank you Yvonne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
