>From a person who spent 12 years teaching adaptive software: I believe you are >on the right track when you say that people need to learn the general windows >keystrokes as well as JAWS keystrokes. A common mistake used to be and I guess >still is that instructors fail to make the distinction between the jaws and >windows keystrokes. A very important distinction that needs to be made.
DjAndChaz Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2016, at 3:12 PM, Brian Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Edited Message Follows] > > Hello All, > > What follows is a rather philosophical question but that certainly > has practical implications that the cohort will know about a lot more > personally than I ever can. Hence this is the place to ask. > > When I tutor on using JAWS I do not focus exclusively on JAWS and > its keystrokes because JAWS hovers on top of all other Windows programs and > assists in using those. My philosophy is that I want my clients to know as > many, if not more, keyboard shortcuts that are universally, or very close to > universally, applicable in all Windows programs. I want them to know that, > in almost all cases, ALT+F opens the file menu or equivalent, followed by S > saves a file, followed by A does a Save as, etc. > > One of my clients, with whom I had a marathon 3.25 hour tutoring > session yesterday, is relatively new to using Windows Live Mail as well as > using PDF XChange viewer to perform OCR on the many image PDFs that still get > thrown his way. As a result, I worked him through certain tasks step-by-step > and create instructions in the same format, examples of which will follow. > It was only when we were conversing afterward, and he used the phrase JAWS > keyboard shortcuts when talking about conventional Windows keyboard shortcuts > that I thought it important that he had at least a basic understanding that > keyboard shortcuts do differ in what program layer, JAWS versus a give > Windows program, is responsible for the interpretation of same. I want him > to understand how to apply Windows keyboard shortcuts "by extension" when he > is playing around with a Windows program that's new to him. Is this a > mistake to try to make this distinction? Is it unwise to not focus nearly > exclusively on JAWS keyboard shortcuts for functions that also exist > independently as a different Windows keyboard shortcut? I'd love to get the > perspective of those who would know the pluses and minuses of leaning one way > or another. > > What follows are a couple of examples of the step-by-step > instruction sets I've created, and they look more complicated than they > actually are because I try to break things down into simple single steps. > Once you know what you're doing most of these tasks can be done in a few > moments. I'll include the instructions for running OCR with PDF XChange > Viewer because it may be helpful to some here who have decided to play with > that program. All focus almost exclusively on using WIndows keyboard > shortcuts for the program in question with JAWS serving the role of narrating > what's happening while you do this. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Using PDF XChange Viewer to perform OCR on any PDF you receive that is an > image PDF, step-by-step: > > 1. Open PDF XChange Viewer from your start menu. > > 2. Hit ALT+F,O to bring up the file open browsing dialog. > > 3. Hit ALT+I to jump directly to the Look In combo box > > 4. Hit down arrow to get into the area that’s somewhat, but not exactly, > like the tree view in Windows Explorer. > > 5. Hit L until you hear, “Libraries,” announced. > > 6. Hit TAB two times, you should hear, “Documents”. > > 7. Hit SPACEBAR to select the Documents library. > > 8. Hit ENTER to open the documents library. > > 9. Hit the first character of the folder or file name you’re trying to > perform OCR on. Keep doing this with the first character until you hear its > name announced. > > 10. Hit Enter to open the file or folder. If you’re > dealing with a file at this step go straight to step 11. Otherwise, do the > following > > a. If you know the file is in this folder then use the “hit the first > character” technique to locate it and jump to step 11 once you have. > > b. If you need to drill down another folder level go back to step 9. > > 11. Hit ALT+O to open the file in PDF XChange Viewer. > > 12. Hit CTRL+SHIFT+C to open the OCR dialog box. > Immediately hit ENTER to initiate the OCR processing. The length of time > this takes depends on the size of the file being processed. JAWS does not > read the processing status box, but will announce the file’s name with star > after it when the processing completes. That’s how you’ll know it’s done. > > 13. Hit ALT+F,S to save the file and its OCR text into > the original file itself. > > 14. Hit ALT+F4 to close PDF XChange Viewer. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Creating a new folder in Windows Explorer, step-by-step: > > 1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder location in which you > wish to create the new folder. > > 2. Hit ALT+F,W,F to create the new folder itself. > > 3. Type in the name you want for the new folder you’re creating. > > 4. Hit ENTER to make that new name stick, and you’re done. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To find a specific e-mail message in WLM, step-by-step: > > 1. Hit ALT+O,FI which opens the message find submenu > > 2. You are presented with two choices in this submenu: Find Text and > Find Message. I will cover each of these briefly. > > 3. Find Text presents a dialog box allows you to enter a word, words, or > phrase that you know is somewhere within the message you’re trying to find. > Simply enter that text and skip to step 5. > > 4. Find Message presents you with a dialog box with a number of possible > attributes of the message you might want to search on, e.g., Subject, From, > To, and others. Tab through and fill in whichever of these attributes you > wish to include in the search. After you’ve filled in whichever are > pertinent, go to step 5. > > 5. Hit ALT+I to activate the Find Now key. This will cause a dialog box > to come up with the list of messages that match whatever you searched on, if > any exist. These are presented very much like your inbox message list, but > are composed only of messages that match the search criteria you entered. > When you hear the one you’re interested in as you move through them, hit > ENTER to open it. > >
