Jim, What a great step by step. I have a folder with your lessons. It is so good to see someone with a clear understanding of Windows. When, in the long ago and far away, and teaching WindowEyes I told my students that so much of good use of a screen reader relied on knowing what was possible in the operating system and having a good group of shortcut keys in your OS between your ears. I was a GW guy back in the VocalEyes days and then a WE user and teacher. When WE went away, I dreaded the switch. All that dread has mostly vanished. Now if I can retrain my head to press the specific JAWS function keys. I will be in good shape. Motor memory is a wonderful thing until the task has its key combo altered.
Thanks from lots of us, Rick -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Jim Flusche Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 6:03 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Pinning and unpinning items from the taskbar in W-10. Pinning and unpinning items from the taskbar in W-10. OK, first of all, What Items are pinned to my Taskbar? Second of all, What are the order of the pinned items on my Taskbar? Third of all, Why does the pinned order of items on the Taskbar matter? Fourth of all, How do I unpin items from the Taskbar? Fifth of all, How do I pin items to the Taskbar? **What Items are pinned to my Taskbar? After pressing Windows key+T, and pressing the Right arrow key, I will hear the following Items. Task bar Internet Explorer Button Word 2016 Button Notepad - 1 running window button menu Outlook 2016 Button Control Panel Button Windows Defender Security Center Button iTunes Button JAWS 18 Button **What are the order of the pinned items on my Taskbar? 1. Internet Explorer 2. Word 2016 3. Notepad 4. Outlook 2016 5. Control Panel 6. Windows Defender Security Center 7. iTunes 8. JAWS 18 **Why does the pinned order of items on the Taskbar matter? Because, depending on the order of the pinned items to the Taskbar, this will determine the shortcut key that will start that program on your computer. *For example: on my computer pressing the windows key followed by a number on the numbers row, will start the following program or open the item pinned to the Taskbar. Pressing Windows key+1, will open Internet Explorer. Pressing Windows key+2, will open Word 2016. Pressing Windows key+3, will open an untitled Notepad file. Pressing Windows key+4, will open Outlook 2016. Pressing Windows key+5, will open the control panel. Pressing Windows key+6, will open Windows Defender Security Center. Pressing Windows key+7, will open iTunes. Pressing Windows key+8, will always start Jaws 18. *Tip, if you have more than one of these windows open. Pressing their windows key+number, will take you to that program. *For example: If you are in the Internet Explorer window, and you wish to go back to your open notepad file, just press Windows key+3, on my computer. If you wish to start a new notepad file, Press Windows+shift+3, this will open a blank notepad file. So as you can see this is a quick and fast way, to start your favorites programs on your W-10 computer including Jaws. **How do I unpin items from the Taskbar? As you are busy customizing your new W-10 computer, you should clear the pinned items off your Taskbar. This way you can start from scratch, pinning your pinned items to the Taskbar in your own order. *Press Windows key+T, you land on the first item pinned to your Taskbar. Press the Applications key, up arrow to, unpin from Taskbar, press Enter. Press Windows key+m or D, go to your desktop. Press Windows key+T, returns you to the Taskbar, repeat the above directions until the Taskbar is empty. Keep repeating these steps, until all the current items are unpinned from your Taskbar. **How do I pin items to the Taskbar? OK, let us start with pinning Jaws to the Taskbar. Press the Windows key, followed by the down arrow key, you will land in the All Apps list box. Press the letter J, you will land on JAWS 18.0 folder, Collapsed. Press the Enter key to expand Jaws 18. Highlight Jaws 18. Press the Applications key, down arrow to, more sub menu, Right arrow to pin to taskbar, press Enter. You now have Jaws 18 pinned to the Taskbar. *Tip, remember if you have more than one version of Jaws installed on your computer, do the following. After pressing Windows key, and pressing the down arrow, and pressing the letter J, you will land on the oldest version of Jaws first. So just repeat the above steps for pinning all the versions of Jaws to the Taskbar, that are installed on your computer. I always use this method for starting Jaws on my computer, instead of the old way of pressing Control+ALT+J, to start Jaws. So because Jaws 18 is the eighth item pinned to the Taskbar, pressing Windows key+8, always starts Jaws 18 on my computer. *How to find items like Internet explorer or notepad, to pin to my Taskbar? Press Windows key, followed by the Down arrow, this lands you in, All Apps list box. Press the letter W, down arrow to, Windows Accessories folder, Collapsed, press the Enter key to expand. Highlight either Internet explorer or notepad. Press the Applications key, Arrow down to, more sub menu, Right arrow to, pin to Taskbar, press Enter. Now you have pinned either Internet explorer or Notepad to your Taskbar. *How to find the Control panel, to pin it to the Taskbar? Press the Windows key, followed by the Down arrow to open the All Apps list box. Press the letter W, Down arrow to, Windows System folder, Collapsed, press Enter key to expand. Down arrow and highlight Control panel. Press the Applications key, Arrow down to more sub menu, Right arrow to pin to Taskbar, press Enter. Now you have pinned the Control panel to the Taskbar. *Other examples: 1. Press the Windows key, or Enter on the Start button. 2. Either press the up or down arrow or Tab two times to All apps list box,. 3. Use first letter navigation, or just Down arrow through all the programs on your computer, Highlight the program that you want to pin to the Taskbar. 4. Press the Application key, on any program, arrow down to, more sub menu, right arrow to, pin to Taskbar, press enter. Now your Program, has been pinned to the Taskbar. 5. If a group is collapsed, press enter key to expand, this is a toggle, pressing enter Opens and closes a program group. **For example, while in the All Apps list box. 1. Press the letter O, for apps or programs starting with O. 2. Arrow down and highlight Outlook 2016. 3. Press the Application key, Down arrow to the more sub menu, right arrow one time to, pin to Taskbar, press enter. Now, you have pinned Outlook 2016, to the Taskbar in W-10. I mainly did this short lesson, to encourage all users of Jaws, to pin Jaws to the Taskbar. This is a more consistent way, to start Jaws 18 or whatever version you are using in W-10. I just press Windows key+8, to start Jaws 18, works every time. This is also a great way, to switch between open windows of the programs that are pinned to the Taskbar. Just press their start keystroke, to go quickly back to that program. For example: If I am in Internet Explorer, just press Windows key+3, to quickly jump to Notepad, on my computer. Your humble Pinhead! Owner of the Windows 10 and Jaws group! 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/
