Hi Michele, Below is a very good explanation / tutorial for Jaws users & pretty much any screenreader user:
From: Thom Spittle There is not a lot to ribbons. Think of it this way. Microsoft groups commands together that are alike. So under one tab there may be many groups. Let's use Microsoft Word 2010 as an example. If I want to insert something. I can hit the alt key to go to the upper ribbon and right arrow to the insert tab. This would be the same thing as hitting alt N. So now hit tab to go to the lower ribbon. There are the following groups: Pages, tables, illistrations, links, headers and footers, text, and symbols. You can use the control + right and left arrow to go between these groups. So if I wanted to insert an illustration, I can hold down control and press the right arrow until I get to the illustration group. The commands in illistrations are: Picture, clip art, shapes, smart art, chart, and screen shots, . Every time I hit tab, it will go from one command to another. When you get to the end of commands in that group, it takes you to the next group, which in this case is links. It would say hyperlink, which is the first command in the link group. So to put this together, after going to the insert tab, and hit tab, it will put you in the pages group which has 3 commands. After tabbing through these 3 commands, and you tab again, you are in the tables group, which has just 1 command, then pressing tab again you will land in the illistrations group. So if you don't know what group something is in, you can keep hitting tab and it will take you through each command in each group. But to be faster, if you know what group a command is in, control right arrow until you get to the group you want, then tab to get the command you want, then just press enter. Some commands bring up another group of choices, where you can arrow around until you find what you want and press enter on it. This method of navigating the ribbons can be done in every Microsoft application that uses ribbons. This is a good start, just practice navigating, and it will be less confusing to you. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions. Thom Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michele Thredgold To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 5:31 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Ribbon view in Windows 10 Hi everyone. Is there a way of changing the view in Windows 10 so that things aren’t in ribbons, but the way they used to be. I also don’t know what tiles are. I’m finding the new outlay extremely confusing and intimidating. Thanks for any ideas. Cheers! Michele Sent from my iPhone 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/
