When you start talking about HJ providing instructions for the way most
people use the web on a daily basis, exactly which folks are you talking
about when you say most. I've taught dozens, probably hundreds, of people
to use the internet and have yet to encounter two people who want to do the
same things when you get down to specifics. Nor do people use their screen
reader in the same fashion.
Some folks want news, some want sports, some want stock information, some
want the local weather, some want to make travel reservations and most some
combination of the previous.
No two web sites work the same. Getting weather from Yahoo is different
from how you do it from the Weather channel. So too is getting stock
quotes from Etrade or The New York Times.
It is also not easy to make instructions that a majority of folks can
follow. I'd bet you that more than 50 percent of the people using JFW
(don't just count people who are online) have little to no understanding of
what the Jaws cursor is for or how to effectively use it. Yet having an
understanding of this can make a fundamental difference in how productive
you are on the web or with JFW in general.
The simple issue of Maximizing a window is another example. This is not
web-specific and understanding the results of different window sizes is
helpful no matter what application you are using.
The fact is that you can pick any aspect of JFW and understanding how that
feature works and what it is for will enhance your experience with any sort
of application. Knowing about Window titles and how to read them can be a
huge help in working with the web so should HJ teach that as part of web
browsing? Understanding edit boxes, radio buttons and such is also
critical to using the internet. But again these are skills that are part
of effective use of any application so you have to draw the line someplace
about how many times you are going to repeat information in a training
setting.
As for your specific questions about column reading and the left mouse
click, I am using 3.3 and both work correctly here.
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