Here are notes I've saved from people's experiences with Smart Navigation: From: Daniel Hello, You can activate smart navigation in two ways. Through settings center where you press space to cycle through the options - off, controls, and controls and tables. The second way is through the jaws startup wizard, where these options are radio buttons. Smart navigation Is used via the arrow keys. In controls, you can arrow across form fields and you'll get the exact layout of the form. In tables, you navigate them again with the arrow keys and you can pick a cell in a row, and arrow down to the corresponding cell on subsequent lines. Hope this helps, Daniel
From: Neil Towery I changed the subject line to reflect your question concerning how much we understand. Doesn't look like the current smart navigation. Did not notice that striking certain keys, such as H, would jump from heading to heading. Looks like we have to do three keystrokes to get the same thing we now get with one keystroke. They are talking about doing the keystrokes twice quickly. Where is the option to have it like it is in windows 7? Neil From: valiant8086 Hi. If you don't use smart navigation, everything behaves as before. Say word, Say Character are not quick navigation keys, but those two are the ones affected by smart navigation, when smart navigation is in affect, these keys require two quick presses to allow you to navigate the text character by character or word by word. This is because the arrow keys otherwise navigate by element, so one press of right arrow for instance might go to a link, or perhaps a button, you won't be able to use arrow keys to spell the name of the button for instance if you don't understand what it says unless you do sayCharacter keystroke twice quickly, thereafter the arrow keys will read the name of the button character by character as you'd expect. Remember, smart navigation is off by default anyway, and that only really affects sayWord and sayCharacter keystrokes. They do recommend however that you use semi auto forms mode or manual, because navigation quick keys like h won't work very well if you have smart navigation on, and fully auto forms mode, because if you arrow onto an edit box it will enable forms mode, then if you try to use h it'll just type h in the box instead of going to next heading, and you won't be able to get out of the box with arrow keys I suspect (not verified) until you hit escape. Navigation quick keys really are not affected in any way by smart navigation, but the auto forms mode setting remains with the same 3 options as in jaws 16. If you leave smart navigation off jaws will behave exactly as it did in version 16 when it comes to web pages in every way to the best of my knowledge. Also, yes, smart navigation will be new to JAWS 17. Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates Take care. Mike Global warming? Most likely caused from hot air generated by politicians! ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 8:14 AM Subject: Smart Navigation keys for Jaws 17 Can any one help me with Smart Navigation Keys? What I want is to have a clear definition of the difference between normal Navigation Keys and the Smart Navigation Keys. Thanks Jim
