I encourage my students to take notes and we add keystrokes as needed or wanted.

DjAndChaz 
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> On Jan 9, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Brian Vogel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Kelly,
> 
>           You are indeed correct.   I hasten to add that I do not, and never 
> have, attempted to teach any client the exhaustive list of either JAWS 
> commands or keyboard shortcuts for the Windows programs they're using.   As I 
> pointed out earlier relative to myself, even I don't know anywhere near to 
> all of these.  I let the client's actual needs as I work with them guide just 
> precisely what gets taught in terms of the weird detailed keyboard shortcuts 
> that virtually no sighted person ever uses but that they must use if they 
> wish to independently perform task X.
> 
>           I'm also big on the "teach a man or woman to fish" approach to JAWS 
> and Windows, so that when I'm no longer present they are able to do a 
> reasonable amount of digging and exploration on their own.  I do less of this 
> than I'd actually like to because I often have to focus on a list of 
> immediate and pressing needs related to what the client needs to accomplish 
> NOW (or yesterday).
> 
>           I will take issue with your statement about blind users and the 
> number of keyboard shortcuts they can manage in their heads.  Virtually every 
> proficient blind computer user I know manages a large number of keyboard 
> shortcuts in their head, far more than I do teaching them, because I learn 
> them to teach them, while they learn them to use them and tend to build upon 
> that list as more and more tasks are required over a period of years.  I'd be 
> shocked if it isn't hundreds, plural, for some of the really, really 
> proficient.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

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