I believe Perkins sells a similar book. I purchased from them Windows
95,98, and XP explained, and found those resources most helpful.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Arnold" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity
When I took computer training at the Morehead Center in Raleigh, North
Carolina, there was a book with Windows commands, then JAWS specific
commands. I assume you use similar material.
Bye for now,
Carolyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity
Nicole,
Thanks. This may sound like backpedaling but it really isn't, but
I seldom do something like that with someone who is congenitally blind,
except to tell them how they'd get someone who's sighted and assisting them
to know where to look. I tend to, with all my clients, actually, start out
with an instruction like, "Use INS+F7 to list the links on the page," or,
"Use INS+F6 to list the headings on the page," prior to giving any other
instruction or feedback, if I give any at all. Since I'm teaching JAWS in
the moment the JAWS terminology definitely comes absolutely to the fore
because it must.
I teach, for instance, that when using Windows Explorer or File
Explorer that JAWS routinely opens a folder and places you on the first item
in the folder, but for some reason it does not (and never has, in my
experience) select that first item, so if that's the one you want to operate
on you must hit the spacebar to select it first but that if you arrow up or
down the thing that you've landed on is actually already selected. I then
make the point that if someone ever says "click on" file X they're telling
you to select it or to "double click" they mean to open it/activate it, as
the case may be. As I think about it, I probably use screen layout
information very seldom as a part of teaching how to do something, but
fairly frequently in just mentioning where the thing that is being worked on
is located. I guess that's because I literally work with the latter method
of orientation and know that others will, when trying to help, too. I never
use "mouse references" like, "hover over object X," but will use right and
left click references because they're sometimes precisely what one must do,
using either the mouse pad left/right click buttons on a laptop if one
prefers, or the JAWS equivalent, NumPad slash for left click, and NumPad
Star (or asterisk or multiply) for right click.
I have, but very rarely, done a "turn off the monitor" exercise
because I find it so frustrating. I realize that if I did this more
frequently I would develop at least some further proficiency with actual
functional use of screen readers. Like most people, though, I fall back on
what's easiest for me and that's frequently because time is of the essence.
I really appreciate the feedback and insight.
Brian
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