rose, there are such things as headers on the page, a couple hits of h gets
me to the results section nearly as fast

inthane

-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Rose Combs
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] I am trying to learn flexible web.

True, however, once you get a list of results you are still focused in the
edit field and there is a lot of stuff to go through to get to those
results.  I use the heading h command a lot and still don't always find an
easy way to see results since some look-up things have sponsored adds and
others do not so setting a temporary place marker isn't a great option
either.  

I sure do wish Accessible Google had not been taken down, I used it almost
daily at work no muss, no clutter, just the things I needed in a hurry for
my job, mostly medications or surgical tools, catheters, etc.  Time is of
the essence in my work since they have production standards and if I can
spend one minute getting results instead of 5 lumbering through all the
stuff Google wants to put between the edit field and the results the better
it is for me.  Sure, it is accessible if you have time to spend that is.  


Rose Combs
[email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Grant Hardy
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] I am trying to learn flexible web.

When you open Google you should automatically be positioned at the
search field because the focus is forced there, and JAWS respects
forced focus edit controls. So, you don't need to use flexible web to
do anything there - simply visit google.com and your cursor should be
placed on the edit field. Depending on your verbosity settings you may
hear "press ENTER for forms mode," or if auto forms mode is set to on
then you should be placed in forms mode automatically and can begin
typing.

The search results pages are a different matter though. Search for
something on Google and move into the search results. Then create a
new flexible web rule with JAWSKey+SPACE, X. The "Create a new
customization" radio button should already be selected, so hit ENTER
to move on. You don't want to hide anything, you want to start reading
somewhere; so select the second radio button on the next page and hit
ENTER. Now it's asking where exactly you want to be placed. There
should be various options, but the search results are all in a list so
the list option will most likely do the trick. On the next screen,
"start at any list with ID = reso" should do the trick. This should be
a consistent ID for all the lists containing Google search results. So
select that option and hit ENTER to activate the finish button..

Now we need to save that rule. Hit JAWSKey+Space, X again to enter the
flexible web settings, and select the "Save temporary customizations
as a rule" radio button. Enter any name you want for this rule and
make sure the customization you just made is checked in the list of
customizations that will form part of this rule. Since you've only
created one, it should be the only one in the list of customizations
and it should be checked.

There's nothing else you need to change here. You want this applied
whenever a Google search results page is loaded, and the default
option is to apply your rule to the current site. So just hit ENTER to
finish.

Bingo, now whenever you search on Google you should automatically be
in the list of results. Give it a shot and let us know if you need
further clarification on this very cool feature.

Grant

On 10/23/12, jim rawls <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am confused with it. I want to have Google, my home page open to where I
> can type
> in the search field and them go  to the link I am searching for and skip
all
> the
> bullets and such. Is that possible, and if so, what would I choose in the
> flexible
> web options to achieve this? I am running jaws 14, windows 7 on a 64 bit
> machine.
> Jim
>
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