done earlier On 3/16/14, dooie13 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Why did you not outline & provide all info about this Virtual method you > are > telling Mike about? > > Thanks for these Virtual details you may present. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Alan Robbins > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 09:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Virtual Ribbons Explained > > Mike, > > I have been using this since it came out in version 12. What I don't > understand, and maybe you could comment, is why JAWS users that have > difficulty with ribbons don't use the virtual option? > > Best, > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mike B. > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:52 AM > To: Jaws-Users List > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Virtual Ribbons Explained > > Hi LeDon, > > I believe you wanted the Virtual Ribbons explained. Here you go, from > Jaws > training: > > The Virtual Ribbon Menu Feature - New in JAWS 12 > Introduction > > The ribbon is a new style of menu available in many new applications > being > released today. Ribbons first appeared in Office 2007 programs, but > are now > becoming more common in other applications tailored for the WindowsR 7 > > operating system. Ribbons create an accessibility challenge due to > inconsistent > navigation between various groups and items. For example, the lower > ribbon > contains groups of icons, sometimes arranged in several rows. When you > press > the ARROW keys to move between items in a group, you can skip items if > there > is a row above or below the one you are on. When pressing the ARROW > keys or > TAB, no indication is given when focus leaves one group and enters > another. > You cannot use first letter navigation in the ribbons, because > pressing keys > might activate ribbon key tips. Finally, because of a group's layout, > you do > not know if you should navigate up, down, left, or right to select an > item. > > > The new virtual ribbon menu feature in JAWSR screen reading software > provides predictable navigation, lets you see everything in the > ribbon, and > offers > consistency when navigating with the ARROW keys. For example, each > group on > the lower ribbon is treated as a submenu. Once you open the group > submenu, > you can press DOWN ARROW to move through all of the items within that > group. > When you reach the bottom of the items in that group, focus wraps back > to > the top item, and vice versa. You can also use first letter navigation > in > the virtual ribbon menu. Here are a few keystrokes to help you get > started > using > the virtual ribbon menu: > > list of 6 items > . Move from one ribbon tab to another, ALT to move to the first tab, > then > LEFT or RIGHT ARROW. JAWS reads the name of the tab as you move to it. > . Move from an upper ribbon tab to the lower ribbon groups, DOWN ARROW > or > ENTER. JAWS announces and treats the lower ribbon groups as if they > were > submenus. > > . Open a ribbon group submenu, RIGHT ARROW or ENTER. > . Navigate the items within each submenu, UP or DOWN ARROW, or first > letter > navigation. > . Close a submenu, LEFT ARROW or ESC. > . Move from the lower ribbon back to the upper ribbon, ESC. > list end > > NOTE: One nice feature of the JAWS virtual ribbon menu is that when > you > activate an item and focus returns to the document or application you > are > working > on, JAWS remembers where you just were on the ribbon. If you press ALT > > again, instead of having to go back to the upper ribbon and find your > place > again, > JAWS goes right back to where it was previously, in the same group, > and on > the exact same control you were last on. > > I'll demonstrate all of these things to you, and you can practice > along with > me in just a few minutes. > > Also, just a reminder, whenever you want to pause the audio of this > DAISY > book, just press CTRL+P. When you are ready to resume, press CTRL+P > again. > Remember, > you can leave the DAISY book in the background and use this keystroke > to > play or pause the audio while working on your practice documents in > the > foreground. > When FSReader DAISY player is open, even in the background, use this > keystroke to toggle the audio on and off. If you need to print > something > while FSReader > is open, just go to the File menu and choose Print. > > Using the JAWS Virtual Ribbon Menu as Opposed to the Microsoft Ribbon > - Some > Differences > > The virtual ribbon menus feature allows for ribbon navigation using > standard > menu type commands such as scrolling with the arrow keys and first > letter > navigation. While virtual ribbon menus are enabled with JAWS, the > built-in > key tips and accelerator keys that appear visually on the ribbon and > on the > buttons are disabled. > > For example, to insert a bookmark in MicrosoftR Word, here are the > steps for > both scenarios, one using the ribbon, and the second one using JAWS > virtual > ribbon menus: > > Using Microsoft Word Key Tips: > > list of 2 items > . Using the built-in keyboard access in Microsoft Word, you would > first > press ALT+N to move to the Insert tab of the ribbon. > . Next, you press the letter K, the Microsoft key tip to activate the > bookmark button. > list end > > Using JAWS Virtual Ribbon Menus: > > list of 4 items > . In order to activate the button using the virtual ribbon menus you > first > press ALT+N to move to the Insert tab of the ribbon. > . Next, you would press DOWN ARROW or ENTER to go to the lower ribbon. > . Once on the lower ribbon, you would press L to move to the Links > submenu, > using first letter navigation. The submenu opens, and focus is on the > Hyperlink > button. > . Finally, you press B for Bookmark. > list end > > The nice thing about this is that these keystrokes are easy to > remember, > because it is first letter navigation. > > If you are comfortable using the Microsoft built-in keyboard commands, > it > may be best to leave the virtual ribbon menu feature off. The majority > of > people > however have not memorized many of the Microsoft access keys for > programs > using the ribbon and thus will not lose any functionality by enabling > the > feature. > > > Turning the Virtual Ribbon Menu On and Off > > By default the virtual ribbon menu setting in JAWS 12 is turned off. > This > means that JAWS 12 behaves as in prior versions when interacting with > the > ribbons. > You can enable virtual ribbon menus using the JAWS Startup Wizard or > Settings Center. > > The JAWS Startup Wizard > > The JAWS Startup Wizard runs the first time you start JAWS after it > has been > installed, or by activating the Startup Wizard item in the Help menu. > The > virtual ribbon menus check box is located on the third page of the > wizard. > When the check box is checked, the virtual ribbon menus are active. > > JAWS Settings Center > > Perform the following steps to use JAWS Settings Center to enable or > disable > Virtual Ribbon Menus: > > list of 7 items > 1. First, press INSERT+F2 to activate the Run JAWS Managers list. > 2. Press the letter S until you land on the settings center item and > press > ENTER to activate it. The settings center dialog box opens with the > cursor > in > the search edit box. > 3. Press CTRL+SHIFT+D to activate the default settings. > 4. Type the word "ribbon" (without the quotes). > 5. Press the DOWN ARROW to move through the list of search results > until you > land on the Use Virtual Ribbon Menu check box. > 6. Press the SPACE BAR to check or uncheck the box. > 7. Press TAB to move to the OK button, and activate it with the > SPACEBAR. > list end > > If you haven't already enabled virtual ribbon menus, go ahead and do > so > before continuing with the practice section that comes up next. If > necessary, pause > the audio of this DAISY book by pressing CTRL+P. When you are ready to > > resume, press CTRL+P again. Remember, you can leave the DAISY book in > the > background > and use this keystroke to play and pause the audio. CTRL+P does not > access > the print dialog box when FSReader DAISY player is open. > > Using WordPad in Windows 7 for Practice > > EXERCISE: Open WordPad in Windows 7 on your computer and follow along > with > the instructor to explore the virtual ribbon menu feature in JAWS 12 > or > later. > > > NOTE: If you do not have Windows 7 and the ribbon version of WordPad > you can > still learn to use the Virtual Ribbon Menus in Word 2007 or 2010 in > Windows > Vista or Windows XP. The instructions below will work the same there; > it is > just that you will hear different results. For example, in Word 2010 > there > is a File tab, as well as tabs for Home, Insert, Page Layout, > References, > Mailings, Review, and more depending on how you have customized Word. > The > lower > ribbon of the Home tab contains a Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, > and > Editing group. So even though you may not hear exactly the same thing > if you > are using an Office 2007 or Office 2010 product, every concept should > be the > same. Just pause the audio and practice the techniques I'll show you, > realizing > you will have even more to explore and practice with in Office than > WordPad. > > Overview of the Virtual Ribbon Structure with JAWS in WordPad > > I'm going to open the start menu and type WordPad. There it is. I'll > press > ENTER to open it. Go ahead and open WordPad on your computer as well. > > I always like to go through an overview of what the window looks like > for > each program. WordPad in Windows 7 has the following items on the > screen, > going > from the top to bottom: > > list of 5 items > . The title bar at the top of the screen, which has the minimize, > restore, > and close buttons on the right side, and the system icon on the far > left > side. > The system icon is used to open the menus to minimize, restore, move > the > program window, and so on. Just to the right of the system icon is the > Quick > Access > Toolbar, or QAT, pronounced cat. > . On row two of the screen is the upper tabs of the ribbon. From left > to > right they are the Application Menu, basically the same as the File > menu, > then > Home and View tabs. It's pretty simple compared to programs like Word, > > ExcelR, and PowerPointR. > . On what basically would be rows three through six is the lower > ribbon. The > lower ribbon contains buttons, edit boxes, and other controls arranged > in > groups. > . The next line below the lower ribbon contains a ruler bar. > . The main application window for WordPad is next, and at the bottom > row of > the screen is a typical status bar. > list end > > Let's do a little bit of exploring together. > > list of 5 items > 1. First, press ALT to move to the Home tab of the WordPad screen. > JAWS > announced virtual ribbons, home tab. > 2. Next, press LEFT ARROW. There's the first tab. In programs like > Word 2010 > and Excel 2010, this is called the File tab. Here JAWS announces > application > menu drop down grid. It's basically the same as the File menu was in > earlier > versions of WordPad. We'll look at it more in a minute. > 3. Press RIGHT ARROW now to move past the Home tab to the View tab. > When > focus moves to the View tab, the lower ribbon changes to show the > controls, > again > in groups, that have to do with different things that apply to viewing > > documents. The groups there are Zoom to zoom in and out, Show or Hide > (for > the ruler > and status bar), and Settings for things like word wrap and > measurement > units. > 4. If you keep going to the right you find a Help button, then focus > wraps > around to the first tab, which I'm going to call the File tab going > forward > in this lesson. When focus goes to the Help button or the File tab, > the > lower ribbon does not change. Activating the File tab opens a > drop-down > menu. > 5. Press RIGHT or LEFT ARROW again until you move back to the Home > tab. > list end > > Next, we'll look at how to access some of the items in the lower > ribbon of > the Home tab. > > list of 5 items > 1. Press DOWN ARROW. Focus moves to the Clipboard group on the lower > ribbon. > Visually, there is a highlight rectangle around this group that JAWS > has put > on the screen. JAWS says lower ribbon, clipboard submenu. > 2. Press DOWN ARROW again and notice you hear the other groups as you > continue. There's the Font submenu, the Paragraph submenu, the Insert > submenu, and > the Editing submenu. Finally, focus wraps back to the Clipboard > submenu. I'm > not going to spend time on the items here in the Clipboard group, > since most > of us use CTRL+V to paste, but there is also a cut and a copy button > there. > 3. Press DOWN ARROW to move to the Font group. JAWS says font submenu. > 4. Press RIGHT ARROW to open the Font submenu. JAWS says font family, > edit > combo, Calibri. This is where you change the font when you want to. > 5. For now, just press DOWN ARROW again, just as if you were going > through > an open submenu in a normal program. JAWS says font size, edit combo, > 11. > The > current font size is 11 point. Again, you can change this here, but > for now, > go ahead and press DOWN ARROW again to explore all the items here. > You'll > find about 10 other buttons. Eventually focus wraps back to the font > name, > Calibri. > list end > > Isn't this great?! JAWS takes all the controls within the Font group > and > puts them into a nice, tidy vertical menu. It makes it very easy to > find all > the > controls. > > First Letter Navigation between Ribbon Groups > > You also have the ability to navigate by using first letter from one > group > to another. > > NOTE: The rule of thumb for first letter navigation in menus is if > there is > only one item beginning with that letter, it gets activated and focus > leaves > the menus. If it is a submenu, the new menu opens and focus is placed > on the > first item in the group. If there are multiple items that begin with > the > same > letter, pressing that letter cycles between them and you press ENTER > to > activate the one you wish. > > Let's explore how first letter navigation works in moving from one > ribbon > group to another. > > list of 7 items > 1. First, press ESC a couple of times to make sure you are not in the > ribbon. > 2. Next, press ALT by itself to move to the Home tab of the ribbon in > WordPad. > 3. Press RIGHT ARROW to move to the View tab. > 4. Press DOWN ARROW and let's explore the three groups that are here > with > the arrow keys first. The first group is the Zoom group. JAWS said > Zoom > submenu. > > 5. Press DOWN ARROW again. There's the Show or Hide group. > 6. Press DOWN ARROW again. There's the Settings group. > 7. Press DOWN ARROW again. Focus moves back to the Zoom submenu. > list end > > So, here on the View tab there are three groups on the lower ribbon. > If you > press Z, don't do it just yet, focus would move to the Zoom submenu > and open > it, and focus would be placed on the first item in that group. If you > press > S, since there are two items that begin with that letter here, focus > simply > switches between the two. You need to press ENTER to open either of > these > submenus. Let's practice this now. > > list of 9 items > 1. Press S a few times to cycle between the Show or Hide group and the > > Settings group. > 2. Now, say that you want to go into the Show or Hide group. Press S > until > you are on that submenu, and then press ENTER to go into that group. > Focus > is > on the first item in that group, the Ruler check box. Remember, the > ruler is > located on the screen between the bottom of the ribbon and the top of > the > document area. So here is where you can turn this on or off. I'm going > to > leave it alone for now. > 3. Press DOWN ARROW a few times to look at the other items in the Show > or > Hide group. There are only two items here. > 4. Press ESC to move back out of this group and back to the prior > level. > You're back at the submenu level, or the group level, on the lower > ribbon. > 5. Now, press Z. What happens? Since there was only one item at this > level > that began with the letter Z, the Zoom group, the Zoom submenu opened > and > focus > is on the first item within that group, the Zoom In button. > 6. Press DOWN ARROW a few times to look at the other items in the Zoom > > group. There are three items here. > 7. OK, press ESC to move back out of this group and back to the prior > level. > 8. Press ESC one more time to go back to the upper tabs of the ribbon. > 9. Finally, press ESC once more to exit the ribbon and put focus back > in the > document. > list end > > First Letter Navigation in the Lower Ribbon Groups > > We are going to look at the items on the Home tab in the Font group > for this > exercise. I will show you how to use first letter navigation to get > things > done quickly in the lower ribbon. > > list of 10 items > 1. Press ALT to move to the upper tabs of the ribbon in WordPad. > 2. Press LEFT or RIGHT ARROW to move focus to the Home tab, if > necessary. > 3. Press DOWN ARROW until you find the Font group. JAWS says Font > submenu. > 4. Press RIGHT ARROW to open the Font submenu. Focus is on the item > Calibri > in the font submenu. > 5. Earlier, when we moved through the controls here, you probably > heard > there was a bold button. Press B now. Focus moves back to the > document, and > the > bold button is now pressed. You could also just press CTRL+B but I > wanted to > show you how to use first letter navigation in the virtual ribbon > menu. > Let's > look at this again. > 6. Press ALT by itself. Notice how focus returns right back to the > same spot > on the ribbon, on the Bold button? JAWS said bold button pressed. This > is > fantastic! Without JAWS running, focus would have gone back to the > Home tab > and to move here you would either have to press TAB about eight times > or > DOWN > ARROW twice to the Font group and open the submenu again. The way JAWS > > remembers where you were in the ribbon is a great feature! > 7. Next, press I. Focus moves back to the document, and the italic > button > has now been pressed. So if you type something right now it would be > both > bold > and italic. But, let's look at one more thing here with first letter > navigation. > 8. Press ALT to go back to the ribbon. JAWS says italic button > pressed. > Again, you are placed right back where you left off in the lower > ribbon. > 9. Now press the letter S. JAWS announces the strike through button. > But it > did not activate it. Why? Because there are other items here that > begin with > the letter S as well. Press S several times to cycle through them. You > > should hear subscript, superscript, and shrink font buttons in > addition to > the strike > through button. When there are multiple items that begin with the same > > letter, press ENTER on the one you want to activate and focus returns > to the > document > area. > 10. For now, if you did not press ENTER on any of the items that began > with > the letter S, just press ESC a couple of times to get out of the > ribbon and > put focus back in the document. > list end > > Let's work through another example together: > > list of 4 items > 1. What if you want to insert a picture, or insert the date and time > into a > document? First press ALT to move to the Home tab of the ribbon. > 2. Now, press DOWN ARROW to move to the Insert submenu, and RIGHT > ARROW to > open it. > 3. Navigate through the submenu by pressing UP or DOWN ARROW first. > Listen > to what is there and notice that two items start with the letter P, > one > starts > with the letter D, and one starts with the letter I. Therefore, to > insert > the date and time you would only need to press D once, the date and > time > dialog > box opens with a choice of formats for the date and time that you can > insert > into the document at the cursor location. However, to insert a picture > you > will have to press P to move to the word Picture followed by ENTER. > 4. For the moment, just press ESC a few times to get out of the ribbon > and > put focus back in the document. > list end > > Edit Boxes and Edit Combo Boxes Using the Virtual Ribbon Menu > > Let's now look at how to change the font and the point size in the > virtual > ribbon menu. > > list of 6 items > 1. Press ALT to move back to the ribbon. Focus is on the tabs in the > upper > ribbon. > 2. If necessary, press LEFT and RIGHT ARROW to move to the Home tab. > 3. Press DOWN ARROW to move to the Font submenu, and press RIGHT ARROW > to > open it. > 4. Focus is on Calibri in the menus. Notice that focus does not go > into edit > mode on this or the point size edit combo boxes. When using the > virtual > ribbon > menus in JAWS, in order to change an edit box value, you need to go > into > forms mode. > 5. Press ENTER on Calibri to go into forms mode. I heard the sound > that > indicates forms mode is on. > 6. Now press DOWN ARROW or UP ARROW and notice that the focus moves > through > the various font choices available. When you want to change to another > font, > just press ENTER when you find the one you want. Forms mode goes off > and > focus returns to the document. The font is now changed to the new one > in the > document. > > list end > > NOTE: For check boxes in the ribbon, use the SPACEBAR to toggle the > selection. For split buttons, often SPACEBAR will perform one action > and > ENTER will > perform another. This depends on the actual button, so you will > sometimes > need to experiment. > > Using the Quick Access Toolbar with the Virtual Ribbon Menu > > What is the Quick Access Toolbar, QAT? The Quick Access Toolbar is a > small > toolbar that has buttons for activating common tasks. Usually, the > default > buttons > there are the Save button, the Undo button, and the Redo button, and > so on. > It also depends on what program you are using. These buttons can be > deleted > and new buttons can be added. Whatever button is the first button on > the QAT > can be activated by pressing ALT+1. The second button on the QAT can > be > accessed > by pressing ALT+2, and so on. Since keyboard users typically use > CTRL+S to > save, CTRL+Z to undo, and CTRL+Y to redo, I usually remove these from > the > QAT > and add buttons that I use most often in that particular application. > > NOTE: In an open message in OutlookR, the keystrokes ALT+1, ALT+2, and > so > on, perform different actions and do not access the QAT when JAWS is > running. > You can still access the buttons on the QAT by moving to the QAT as > described in the next paragraph. > > When virtual ribbon menus are active, you can navigate to the Quick > Access > Toolbar (QAT) by moving to one of the tabs on the left side of the > ribbon > and > pressing UP ARROW. Remember, the QAT is located on the title bar on > the far > left side of the screen. For example, in WordPad, Word, or Excel press > ALT+H > to move to the Home tab. The last time I was in the ribbon I was in > the Font > group, so I'm going to go back to the ribbon by pressing the ALT key, > and > press ESC until I get to the upper ribbon. Then once you are on the > Home tab > press UP ARROW once and the cursor moves to the QAT. In this case the > Redo > button is the last button on the QAT. Once you reach the QAT, press > RIGHT or > LEFT ARROW to move between the buttons there. Press DOWN ARROW to > return to > the ribbon or press ENTER on one of the buttons to activate it. > > Let's look at the QAT in WordPad together. > > list of 3 items > 1. On my computer I heard JAWS announce redo button unavailable. I > just did > a Say Word, INSERT+NUM PAD 5, to repeat that. I have not undone > anything yet > in WordPad, so this button is unavailable at the moment. The help > message > told me that this is button three on the QAT, ALT followed by 3. > 2. Press LEFT ARROW to explore the other buttons here. There is also a > > Customize Quick Access Toolbar button. You can use it to remove these > buttons if > you want to. There are some other choices there as well. However, you > can > add ANY button on the ribbon to the QAT, not just the few shown in the > > Customize > Quick Access Toolbar dialog box. > 3. For now, press ESC a couple of times to get out of the ribbon and > return > to the document area. > list end > > Adding an Item to the QAT > > Let's say you need to use the insert date and time button a lot. > Perform the > following steps to add it to the QAT: > > list of 8 items > 1. Press ALT+H to move to the Home tab of the ribbon. > 2. Press DOWN ARROW to move to the lower ribbon. > 3. Press I to move to the Insert group. The submenu opens and focus is > on > the Picture button. > 4. Press DOWN ARROW until you find the Date and Time button in the > menu. > 5. Press INSERT+NUMPAD MINUS to route the JAWS cursor to the button. > If you > are using laptop keyboard layout, press CAPS LOCK+LEFT BRACKET to > route the > JAWS cursor to the button. > 6. Press NUMPAD ASTERISK to perform a right mouse click. Laptop > keyboard > layout users press CAPS LOCK+9 on the numbers row to perform the right > mouse > click. > > 7. Use the ARROW KEYS if necessary to find the item Add to Quick > Access > Toolbar, and press ENTER on it. This button is now added to the QAT in > the > next > position in line. For example, if you still have the first three > buttons > there, now the Date and Time button is button four. > 8. Verify this and see if it works. Try pressing ALT+4 to see if the > Date > and Time dialog box appears. It worked on my computer. I'll press ESC > to > close > the dialog box for now. > list end > > The File Menu in WordPad > > Press ALT+F to open the File menu in WordPad, and then use DOWN ARROW > to > explore the items there. Here is where you find the following choices: > > list of 10 items > . New > . Open > . Save > . Save as > . Print > . Page setup > . Send in e-mail > . About WordPad > . Exit > . Also if you have opened any recent documents, they will be listed > here, in > the right hand column of the menu with the most recent listed first. > list end > > I'm going to press ESC a couple of times to get out of the File menu > and > return focus to the document area. > > Don't forget to close WordPad when you are finished practicing with > the > ribbon. > > Conclusion > > The virtual ribbon menu feature of JAWS definitely makes navigating > the > complexities of the new ribbons from Microsoft and other software > manufacturers > a breeze! I'm going to be using it a lot from now on, and I hope you > will > also. Thanks for joining me in this DAISY book and I hope you enjoy > using > the > new virtual ribbon menu feature in JAWS! > > Last revised 2010-12-17 > > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > 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/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >
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