Hi Mike and other new users of Jaws, I did a best friend series a while back on the keyboard, read below, I hope this helps you to learn Jaws. The application key, your best friend This is a text tutorial, provided freely by The W-10 and Jaws group, anyone may freely share this text file. Author: Jim Flusche
The applications key is your best friend in using W-10. As you have read my complete guide, we use the applications key and its context menu to do many things in W-10. For example: After pressing Windows key+T, takes you to the taskbar and its pinned items. Use your right arrow to move to each pinned item on the Taskbar. If you wish to remove a pinned item from the Taskbar. Highlight the item, Press the applications key, up arrow to unpin from Taskbar, press enter. If you wish to start over with the list of pinned items on the Taskbar. Highlight them one by one, press the applications key, arrow up to unpin from the Taskbar, press enter. Now use the All apps list box, in the start area, pin all items back to the Taskbar in the order you wish to have them. How do I do this? Press the windows key or press enter on the start button, tab two times to, Apps view list box, or just press the down arrow after pressing the Windows key. Use first letter navigation to jump through your list of all the apps and all the programs on your computer. When you find a app or find a program you wish to pin to the Taskbar. Press the applications key, down arrow to, more submenu, right arrow to, pin to the Taskbar, press enter. Do this for all the items you wish to pin to the Taskbar. I use the Taskbar pinned items a lot. For example: After you have pinned your items to the Taskbar, you now have shortcuts for all the pinned items on your Taskbar. Just press the windows key with the number of the pinned item on the Taskbar. For example, on my computer: Windows key+1, Jaws 17. Windows key+2, Internet explorer. Windows key+3, Notepad. Windows key+4, OneDrive. Windows key+5, Skype. Windows key+6, Calculator. Windows key+7, Control panel. Windows key+8, Outlook 2016. Windows key+9, Groove music. Windows key+0, F S Reader 2.0. These are very handy shortcuts for opening your pinned apps or programs that you have pinned to the Taskbar. Now you can also use the Windows key+E, to bring up a list of items you have pinned to quick access. Remember in W-10, we now have what is called, File explorer. You can set file explorer to open in Quick access or open in This PC. I show you in the complete guide and in the audio lessons, why I use the file explorer to open in quick access. How do I pin items to quick access? The easiest way to do them at one time is to do the following. Press enter on your This PC icon on the desktop. Arrow down and highlight your C: drive. Press Shift+Tab, you are in a tree view of all the stuff on your computer. Use the right arrow to open any closed folder, use the left arrow to close any open folder. Press the applications key on any folder, file, drive, or location you wish to pin to quick access. Arrow down to, pin to quick access, press enter. Now where ever you are on your computer, when you press Windows key+E, you will open a list of pinned items that you have pinned to quick access. You can also pin many things to your desktop. How do I pin programs to the desktop? Go to the all apps list box. Highlight the program you wish to make a desktop shortcut icon for and do the following. Press the applications key. Arrow down to, more sub menu, press the right arrow key. Arrow down to, Open file location, press enter. Press the applications key again, arrow down to, send to sub menu, Right arrow one time. Down arrow to, Desktop, create shortcut, press enter. Now you have pinned an icon for that program on your desktop. We showed you yesterday how to pin apps to your desktop. So as you can see by the lesson above, the applications key is your best friend in W-10! Review: What you have pinned to the Taskbar. Just press the windows key+the numbered position of the pinned item to the Taskbar, to open that item. Again, this is very convenient, I use this most of the time to open my programs. What you have pinned to quick access. Just press Windows key+E. Again you can press this very convenient keystroke anywhere to bring up a list of pinned items, such as files, folders, drives, or other stuff, that you have pinned to quick access. You can press Windows key+m, to go to your desktop. You can press first letter navigation; to find all the programs or apps shortcuts you have pinned to your desktop. Just press enter to open them. While using Internet explorer. When you come across a website you wish to pin to the desktop. Press ALT+f, for the file menu. Arrow down to, Send sub menu, right arrow one time. Down arrow to, Shortcut to desktop, press enter. To confirm, press the spacebar. Now you have convenient shortcuts to your favorite websites right on your desktop. *My purpose for developing all of this free material for the Blind computer user is to help teach and assist a Blind person to use w-10 with a Screen reader like Jaws. *My hope is that the Blind computer user will grow in confidence, in their ability, to use, and to navigate the w-10 computer system, using just Jaws. *We also have group members, to can help teach about using NVDA, on a W-10 computer as well. *This is one of many tutorials, I hope to produce, for the Blind community, to help teach all of them, how to use a W-10 computer using Jaws. *My hope is , That over time, they would learn how to do, and complete, various computer tasks in W-10, all by themselves. *The W-10 and Jaws yahoo group is a freely provided ministry of The River Yahoo group. *I freely offer the W-10 and Jaws group, and all of its materials, as a free and voluntary work of love, to reach out and teach all the blind computer users all over the world, how to learn how to use a W-10 computer using Jaws. You can subscribe to The Windows 10 and Jaws Yahoo group at: [email protected] You can subscribe to The River group at: [email protected] Happy learning! God bless! Sincerely: Jim Flusche. Owner of the Windows 10 and Jaws and The River Yahoo groups. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Massey Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Say All Hi all. Could somebody please tell me what the keystroke is to invoke the say all command? I've been poking around trying different jaws key combinations after listening to yesterday's Main Menu podcast but I didn't come up with the correct keystroke. To be fair, I'm a new Jaws user, having transitioned from Window-eyes. On occasion, I try Window-eyes keystrokes (unintentionally, I might add), only to realize that I'm now using Jaws. Old habits die hard, smile. Thanks. Mike M. 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