Hi Jaws users list, I have also updated part one of the insert and escape keys, your best friend part one. Delete the old one and keep this updated one. Happy learning! Smiles.
The insert and escape keys, your best friend, part one. Remember in this lesson, these are not the total list of all of the keystrokes for these keys, however in this lesson I give most of the keystrokes. As we all know, the Insert key is very important to all blind computer users. *Let's take a look at the most important keystroke combonations with the Insert and Capslock keys. **Insert+1, or Capslock+1, on the number row, turns on keyboard help, this is a toggle keystroke, press once to turn on and again to turn off. When keyboard help is on, press any key or keystroke to hear about that key or keystroke. When pressing a keystroke combonation like Insert+T, for the title window, gives a short message about that keystroke. If you press that keystroke twice quickly, you will hear a longer discription about that keystroke combonation. **Insert+F2, or Capslock+F2, opens the run Jaws manager list of 17 items. For example, you will find dictionary manager, research it, and settings center and more. First letter navigation works in the list of Jaws managers. If you want to see a list of all the Jaws managers, press Insert+F2, or Caplock+F2, use the arrow keys or first letter navigation to look around, press enter on any manager to open it, press the escape key to close this window. **Insert+F11, or Capslock+F11, opens, the Select a system tray icon list box. For example my computer says, Jaws for windows 1 of 5. After pressing the Insert+F11, or Capslock+F11, after you look at the current list of icons, you can press the Escape key to close this window. Or you can press enter on one of the icons, to open a context menu list for that item. For example, if I press enter on, PC status protected, opens a context menu with open, pressing enter on open, will open Windows defender. **Insert+F10, or Capslock+F10, Opens the Windows list dialog, this is the active list of running applications on your PC. Press the Escape key, to close this window. **Insert+F12, or Capslock+F12, Jaws will tell you the current Time, if pressed twice quickly tells you the current Date. **Insert+F1, or Capslock+F1, opens Screen Sensitive Help. Pressing the escape key, will close this window. If you press and hold INSERT or Capslock, then press F1 twice quickly, this will Open the JAWS Help for specific applications window. For example, if you press and hold INSERT or Capslock, then press F1 twice quickly, why you are in outlook. You will hear, popular applications, contents page, treeview, topic outlook. If you press enter followed by the f6 key, you will open the Jaws HTML help file system to the outlook topic. The following is what the page will look like. Outlook Microsoft OutlookT is an e-mail and information manager. Outlook makes it simple to keep e-mails, contacts, calendar items, tasks, and notes organized in one location. Outlook works with other Microsoft Office applications to help you access and integrate information. Please visit http://www.microsoft.com for more information on Outlook. The following are links, to other pages in the Jaws HTML help file system. JAWS Commands for Outlook Outlook Getting Started Customizing an Outlook Message List Outlook Helpful Hints Back List of all Supported Applications Press ALT+f4, to close the Jaws help system page. **Insert+F4, or Capslock+F4, opens the unloading Jaws dialog, quit Jaws dialog, Jaws says, are you sure you want to quit Jaws? If you pressed this keystroke by mistake, just press the Escape key to close this window, or press Enter to shut down Jaws. **Insert+Control+F, or Capslock+Control+F, activates the Jaws find dialog. Type a word you are searching for, and press Enter. **Insert+F3, or Capslock+F3, Searches the current screen or virtual document for the next instance of the item you previously have used the JAWS Find dialog to locate. For example, in Internet Explorer, you press just F3 and not Insert+F3 to jump to the next occurrence of the word. While in internet explorer, If you press Insert+Control+F, or Capslock+Control+F, this brings up the Jaws find dialog, type a word, press Enter. Now just press the F3 key by itself to see the next occurrence of that word on the webpage. If you press Insert+F3, or Capslock+F3, in internet explorer, you will hear, Virtual HTML features dialog, anchors list, 1 of 19. You can use the Arrow keys, or use first letter navigation to jump to an item in this list. For example: If you press H, for Headings list, and press enter. If you do it From the top of the MSN.com page, you will hear, MSN 1, 1 of 140. You can use the Arrow keys, or use first letter navigation to jump to any heading, press enter, you will be placed on that heading on the page. Pressing Insert+Control+F, or Capslock+Control+F, in a Word document, will open the Jaws find dialog. Type the word to search for, press Enter. Now press Insert+F3, to locate the next occurrence of that word in the document. **Insert+Escape, or Capslock+Escape, refreshes the current screen or window. **Insert+Tab, or Capslock+Tab, Says the current window and the associated prompt label, I call this the Jaws repeat key, very useful in the settings area of W-10. **Insert+Q, or Capslock+Q, Says the Currently loaded Script File Name and application name. **Insert+W, or Capslock+W, Puts useful Windows shortcut keys in the Virtual Viewer. Use your Arrow keys to read them, press the Escape key when you are done to close the Virtual Viewer window. **Insert+E, or Capslock+E, Says the name of the default button in the dialog box that will be activated when you press Enter. **Insert+R, or Capslock+R, Toggles the restriction between the six levels. **Insert+T, or Capslock+T, Says the title of the active window within an application or the application title itself. This Says the application title, dialog box title, and item with focus. **Insert+A, or Capslock+A, Document reading Command. Says to the end or bottom of the current document or the bottom of the window depending on which cursor is active. If the PC cursor is active, JAWS scrolls the screen by moving the PC cursor down. If the JAWS cursor is active, the rest of the window is read by moving the JAWS cursor down a line at a time if reading manually. **Insert+S, or Capslock+S, Switches the screen echo between echoing Highlighted text, All text, and None. This Toggles the screen echo. The default is Highlighted, which speaks only highlighted text when it appears on the screen. "All" speaks all the text that gets written to the screen, and "None" speaks none of the text. **Insert+D, or Capslock+D, Activates Dictionary Manager. This is Used to add special string pronunciations to the JAWS dictionary. **Insert+F, or Capslock+F, Says the font and point size at the active cursor. This Says the font style name and character size. Also will speak the attributes such as bold, underline, and italics. **Insert+G, or Capslock+G, Activates the Graphics Labeler, for labeling graphics. This Gets the graphic or symbol that the mouse or JAWS cursor was on and lets you assign it a text label. Labels can be stored in the application specific graphics file or the default graphics file. **Insert+Z, or Capslock+Z, Toggles the Virtual cursor off or on. This command toggles the Virtual cursor off or on. By default, the Virtual cursor is on when navigating Web pages, e-mail messages, and PDF documents. **Insert+X, or Capslock+X, Says the text in the frame where the cursor is located. All text within the boundaries of the frame that contains the active cursor is spoken. **Insert+C, or Capslock+C, If in a dialog window for Spellchecker or Find and Replace, says the misspelled or highlighted word as it appears on its line in the document. Sometimes, a word needs to be reviewed in the context of how it appears in the document, in order to see if it is really misspelled, or is the correct occurrence of the word you are searching for. Press this keystroke in the Spell Check or Find dialog, or when doing a search and replace for specific text or items. The JAWS Cursor is placed on the line containing the word and you will hear the line spoken in the JAWS Cursor voice. Simply turn on the JAWS Cursor to review the line of text word by word, character by character, or read more text around the line. **Insert+V, or Capslock+V, opens the Quick Settings dialog, Use the Quick Settings dialog to adjust JAWS settings for the application currently in use. **Insert+B, or Capslock+B, Reads the controls in the dialog box in their correct Tab Order. This command may not work in every dialog box, especially those that are non-standard windows, such as SDM controls. *Remember the Jaws key is also called the Insert key. *Remember in the laptop keyboard layout, the caps-lock key is the Jaws key as well. *For ease of use, in the below keystrokes, I will call the caps-lock key the Jaws key, and say numpad Insert key, for the insert key on the numpad. **JAWSKey+Y, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to and speaks the prior sentence. **JAWSKey+U, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to the prior line and speaks it. **JAWSKey+I, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Says the current line. This Speaks the current line, restricted to the current item or window. To spell the line, press this keystroke twice quickly. **JAWSKey+O, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to the next line and speaks it. **JAWSKey+P, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Activates the JAWS Cursor, same as pressing numpad minus. **JAWSKey+[, left bracket, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves the JAWS Cursor To the PC cursor, same as pressing numpad insert+minus. **JAWSKey+H, Using the laptop keyboard layout, speaks the current sentence. **Numpad Insert+H, or Capslock+Shift+Control+h, Places JAWS Hot Keys in the Virtual Viewer. Again use your arrow keys to read this window, press the Escape key, to close this virtual viewer window. **JAWSKey+J, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to the prior word and speaks it. **Numpad Insert+J, or Capslock+Shift+Control+j, Brings the JAWS Window into the foreground and gives it focus. This activates the Jaws window, from anywhere else in Windows, so you can read the online help, change synthesizers, and many other features. If you run Jaws from the System tray, pressing the Insert key on the numpad+ the letter J, or Capslock+Shift+Control+j, will open the Jaws window with the Options sub menu highlighted for you. **JAWSKey+K, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Says the current word. **JAWSKey+L, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to the next word and speaks it. **JAWSKey+SemiColon, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Activates the PC Cursor, same as pressing numpad plus. **JAWSKey+', Apostrophe, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves the PC cursor to the JAWS cursor, same as pressing numpad Insert+numpad plus. **JAWSKey+N, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to and speaks the next sentence. **JAWSKey+M, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to the prior character and speaks it. **JAWSKey+, comma, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Says the current Character. **JAWSKey+., period, Using the laptop keyboard layout, Moves to the next character and speaks it. I am going to half to extend this lesson into several parts. I highly recommend using the laptop keyboard layout in Jaws. Using the laptop layout, does not take away anything, the laptop layout ads many extra keystrokes for using Jaws. The caps-lock key becomes another Jaws key. If you need to use the Caps-lock for all caps, press the Caps-lock twice quickly. By using the laptop keyboard layout, you have more flexibility by useing both hands on the keyboard. For example, Use your left pinky finger and press the Caps-lock, and use your right index finger to press F12, to check the time. This is but one, of many examples of why you should use the laptop keyboard layout in Jaws. Remember: all member feedback is welcome at all times from me concerning any of my short Jaws lessons. So let me know if this lesson has helped you in using your W-10 computer with Jaws! Jim. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
