Hi all, I have been messing around with the News app a lot with JAWS, and I am ready to do a tutorial on using it with JAWS. NVDA does not access it enough for my taste, so I will assume you are using JAWS. You can find the news app in many ways. What I would do, is just type news in the search edit, and press the applications or shift+F10 and pin it to the task bar. Now, just launch the News app, and the touch cursor will automatically turn on. JAWS will tell you that. The News app works very well with the touch cursor. Remember, the touch cursor memics flicking left, right, up, and down on a touch screen. The touch cursor in JAWS works if you have a touch screen or not, and you can use the keyboard instead of flicking with your finger. To turn on the touch cursor if it is not on, just press shift+numpadPlus. With the laptop commands, press shift+capslock+semi colon. To turn the touch cursor off, just press the numpad plus or caps lock+semi colon to turn the PC cursor back on. Now, when you first launch the news app, the touch cursor turns on, and you are on My News 1 of 27. There are around 25 news catagories that you can enter on and read the latest news stories for each catagory. First, you need to pick the catagory. With the touch cursor on, the up and down arrows take you to different elements on the app like: regions, headings, list items, and so on. To set the touch cursor to what you want to happen when you press the up and down arrow, press page up and page down to hear the different elements you can go to as you flick up and down or press the up and down arrow with the touch cursor turned on. To use the News app, you want it set to list items when you press up and down arrows with the touch cursor turned on. Now, like I said, when you launch the News app, you will be on my news. Now, just press page down to go to list items, and start pressing down arrow. You will hear the different catagories that you can enter on to read news articles in that catagory. War ning: as you press down arrow, you do not go straight from catagory to catagory. You will hear world, for example, then the next few down arrows will be some gibberish. Just keep down arrowing until you hear the next catagory like Sports, for example. Once you hear a catagory that you like, local news, for example, just press enter. Wait a few seconds for the articles to load and press right arrow until you hear the name of an article with the word button after it. You must hear button to open that article in the News app. Press enter, and then, you can right arrow until you get to the first hunk. Each article is usually divided up into a few hunks with stuff bbetween the hunks. As you press the right arrow, it is just like flicking right with your finger on a touch screen. Once you hear JAWS reading a hunk of the article, you can press caps lock+enter to go into reading mode on that hunk. Then, you can use the JAWS commands to read everything that is in that hunk. Then, to get back to the touch cursor, just press escape. arrow right to the next hunk, and JAWS will start reading that entire hunk to you until you press caps lock+enter to turn reading mode back on. Press escape to move to the next hunk of that article, or to the next article that says button after the title. Just press enter on that button, and you can read the next article just like you did the previous one. Now, if you want to search for an article, turn off the touch cursor by turning on the PC cursor and pressing ctrl+E to go to the search edit box. Just type in something like windows 10, for example, and press enter. Turn the touch cursor back on, and you can read all of the articles that have to do with Windows 10. You can search for anything, and read the articles that have to do with that subject. This is very powerful. The articles open much faster than using a web browser, and you can read them fast. So, to somerize. Right and left arrows take you forward and backward through the artic les or in an article you are reading. The up and down arrows take you to the different catagories that you can read the news about. Just press enter when you up or down arrow to a catagory. That is about it. Please let me know if you have any questions on using the News App. I like it a lot, and I can read a lot of news articles very quickly with the News app in win10. When you begin using an app for the first time with the touch cursor, you have to press page up and page down to figure out what items the up and down arrow takes you to in order for you to use the app. I have the weather channel app, for example, and having the up and down arrows tgo to headings works best with that app. You just have to play around for a while with the touch cursor turned on to figure out how to best use that app. Take care, everybody, David Moore Sent from Mail for Windows 10 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
