The person who wrote it probably didn't write it that way. It sounds like they 
selected it from a website using the virtual cursor. Basically, what you have 
is exactly what JAWS says when it reads it rather than what it really 
originally looked like. Most of the time I tend to have JAWS select and copy 
full content rather than from virtual cursor. You can find these options in the 
settings center. I tend to use smart navigation for tables now instead of this 
older style, but everyone's different in what they prefer. Also, if you're 
using Firefox, you can only select from virtual cursor. This is the main reason 
why I still use IE. I need to prepare documents for sighted people to read, and 
I'm afraid I'd forget to use IE if something else was my default. a

 

From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 10:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: need guidance on navigating in windows 10

 

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 06:47 am, Negoslav Sabev wrote:

Perhaps this will help.

http://www.jaws-users.com/text/Windows/10/index.html

 Now, perhaps, is an opportunity to further my own education.  I went to this 
website, and the content is fabulous, but it's also not set up for sighted 
people (nor should it be, but I'm just saying).  I downloaded several of the 
"collections of all these in a single ZIP file" and unzipped same.  What 
follows is a straight paste from the file related to the Address Bar as it 
opens in Notepad on my computer:

---------------------------

Address bar

Summary: These shortcuts are for using the Address bar.

 

table with 2 columns and 8 rows

To do this

Press this 

 

Add www. to the beginning and .com to the end of text typed in the Address bar

 

Ctrl+Enter 

 

Display a list of addresses you've typed

 

F4 

 

In the Address bar, move the cursor left to the next break in the sentence

 

Ctrl+Left arrow 

 

In the Address bar, move the cursor right to the next break in the sentence

 

Ctrl+Right arrow 

 

Move backward through the list of AutoComplete matches

 

Down arrow 

 

Move forward through the list of AutoComplete matches

 

Up arrow 

 

Select the text in the Address bar

 

Alt+D

table end

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Clearly this file is not really intended to be read as plain text, but has 
instructions in it noting that you have a table with two columns and eight 
rows, with the two columns having headings of, "To do this," and, "Press this."

What program is a file formatted in this manner typically displayed, or perhaps 
displayed and read, using?   I can figure it out well enough, but this Notepad 
presentation wouldn't be a user-friendly way to read through it for anyone.

Brian



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