Using Google Maps to get driving directions between two points is actually
very easy and works very well with JAWS. First, bring up the Google home
page, scroll to the Maps link and click on it. On the Maps page, locate the
link labeled "Get Directions", which you can find either by using the JAWS
find command for the word "directions" or by bringing up the links list with
Insert-F7. On the Directions page, enter your starting and ending addresses
in the appropriate edit fields. You can enter a street address along with
either the city and state or just the zip code. If you don't know the
actual street number, you can enter the name of an intersection
like"Broadway and 42nd St., New York, NY". On the results page, you can
slect directions by car, by public transportation or by walking. If you
want driving directions, click on the appropriate link, and you will get
complete, step-by-step driving directions between the starting and ending
addresses you specified, which you can print out, if you want. For most
cities, you can also get directions by bus, subway or commuter rail, i.e.,
public transportation, with estimated travel times and scheduled departure
times, which is very useful for us blind travelers. HTH.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donnie Parrett" <deparr...@prtcnet.org>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Door to door map driving directions
Could someone please tell me how to use Door to Door Map Driving
Directions?
Sorry for my ignorance, but I have never heard of this before.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Gerald Levy
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:33 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Door to door map driving directions
Absolutely not true. Just click on the maps option on the Google home
page
and then click on the Get Directions link. Enter your starting and ending
addresses, and Google will give you driving directions between those two
points as well as directions by public transportation and by walking. I
use
this feature all the time to get directions by public transportation and
walking here in New York City. I just tried it myself using IE 8 with
JAWS
9 and XP, and it still works as it always has. If Google had decided to
discontinue this feature, there would have been a lot of publicity, just
as
there was when Google discontinued Google Reader.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Hubley" <hubbor...@comcast.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 3:53 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Door to door map driving directions
Hi eeveryone,
I just discovered that Google maps driving directions has been
discontinued.
Does anyone have a Jaws friendly site for getting driving directions?
Thank you,
Russ
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