Fina,
Here is the explanation and examples of its use directly
from the Freedom Scientific Website
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Research It
Note: For a demonstration of Research It, listen to the
August 2009 FSCast.
Features such as Web Slices in Internet Explorer 8 and
gadgets saved in your Windows Sidebar are intended to make
it easy for you to quickly obtain information. This material
is presented in a format that is quick to scan visually.
However, when using assistive technology tools, there is
often extra information presented that is easier to ignore
visually than when listening or reading with braille.
Research It is a new feature that provides quick access to
information while also making it easy to return to your
primary task. Use just a few keystrokes to look up
information and display salient data in the Virtual Viewer.
When you have finished researching, press another keystroke
to return to the task you were performing before the
research started. All that is required to use Research It is
an Internet connection.
There are multiple ways to launch and use Research It. By
default, Wiktionary is the primary look up source. This
means that while the cursor is on a word in a document or
Web page, you can press the default keystroke,
INSERT+WINDOWS Key+R, to quickly lookup the Wiktionary
description for that word. You can always change the primary
lookup source at any time using the JAWS Configuration
Manager, which lets you select which lookup source to use as
the JAWS default or as the default for individual
applications. As you become more familiar with Research It,
and as more lookup modules are created and made available to
you, you will want to change the default look up source used
by JAWS, or just use a different look up source on the fly.
The most efficient way to search for a term is to use the
new layered keystroke, INSERT+SPACEBAR, R. By pressing and
releasing INSERT+SPACEBAR, and then pressing R, you can open
the Research It edit field to type a word or expression of
interest. This can be a zip code, or city and state, or city
and country that can be used with the Weather look up tool
to read a forecast, or a date that is used to view baseball
or football schedules and scores, or a word to use with the
Wikipedia search query to view its meaning or description.
After viewing these results, press ESC to close the Virtual
Viewer window and return to your original focus point.
If you are a software developer or script developer, you can
create and customize your own lookup module DLL and tailor
it to your organization's needs. For example, if your
company specializes in medical equipment, you can create a
lookup source that is essentially a glossary of medical and
industry terms. A developer's guide that outlines formatting
for rule sets and debugging techniques is available at
Research It Developer's Guide.
The next section provides examples of how to use Research
It. If you need more information, refer to the Research It
topic in the JAWS help file.
Research It Examples
The following shows how you can use the Weather, Wikipedia,
NFL Scores, and Reuters Top News Stories search options in
Research It to look up specific information.
Use the Weather lookup source to receive the current weather
forecast for any location based on city name, airport code,
or zip code. The following example uses the INSERT+SPACEBAR,
R keystroke.
Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, R to open the Research It edit field.
In the edit field, type your current location, for example,
St. Petersburg, Florida, or your local airport code, for
example, TPA, or your local zip code, for example, 33771,
and then press ENTER.
The Research It dialog box opens with a list of available
resource items. The primary search item always appears first
in the list.
Use the UP and DOWN ARROWS or first letter navigation to
select Weather and then press ENTER.
After a few seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and
displays the weather forecast for the entered location.
After reading the information, press ESC to close the
Virtual Viewer.
You can use Wikipedia to quickly research an item. The
following example uses the INSERT+CTRL+WINDOWS Key+R
keystroke.
Press INSERT+CTRL+WINDOWS Key+R to open the Research It edit
field.
In the edit field, type the term that you want to look up,
for example, Freedom Scientific, and press ENTER.
The Research It dialog box opens with a list of available
resource items. The primary search item always appears first
in the list.
Use the UP and DOWN ARROWS or first letter navigation to
select Wikipedia and then press ENTER.
After a few seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and
displays the results returned from the Wikipedia look up.
Press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer.
If you want to look at the NFL schedule or scores for
Sunday, October 4, 2009, use the NFL Scores look up source
as described in the following procedure.
Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, R to open the Research It edit field.
In the edit field, type the date using the MM/DD/YYYY
format, for example, 10/04/2009, and press ENTER.
The Research It dialog box opens with a list of available
resource items. The primary search item always appears first
in the list.
Use the UP and DOWN ARROWS or first letter navigation to
select NFL Scores and then press ENTER.
After 2 or 3 seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and
displays a list of games scheduled for that day. Press ESC
to close the Virtual Viewer.
For a summary of current news stories, you can set Reuters
news service as your primary look up source, and then issue
the default Research It keystroke so that you can review the
news summary from any application. To do this, first
configure the primary look up source as described in the
following procedure.
Note: This example uses the Default.JCF file. If you want to
select the primary look up for a specific application, use
JAWS Configuration Manager to open that application's .JCF
file.
Press INSERT+F2 to open the Run JAWS Manager dialog box.
Press C to navigate to Configuration Manager in the list and
then press ENTER.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+D to open the Default configuration file
Press ALT+S and then R to open the Research It Options
dialog box.
Press UP or DOWN ARROW to select a lookup source, and then
press TAB to move to the Set Primary button.
Press SPACEBAR to make the selected item the primary lookup
module.
Select OK to save changes and close the Research It Options
dialog box.
Press ALT+F followed by S to save Configuration Manager
changes, and then ALT+F4 to close Configuration Manager.
Now that Reuters is the set as the primary look up source,
do the following to retrieve the latest news stories.
Press INSERT+WINDOWS Key+R.
After a few seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and
displays a synopsis of the top five news stories. If you
want more information about a specific story, select its
Full Article link. This action closes the Virtual Viewer
window and then displays the complete story in a Web
browser. Otherwise, press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer.
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com]on Behalf Of
Fina Currey
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:11 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] research it
Hello,
What is Research-It?
Thanks.
In friendship,
Fina
peterrubin1...@gmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lenny McHugh" <lmch...@verizon.net>
To: "jaws-users-list" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:28 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] research it
The more that I use research-it I really like it. It would
be nice if a
option could be added.
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