Here’s a quick tip for those of you who use the Jaws screen-reader.
To quickly restart jaws from anywhere, simply press Alt+Windows
+F9. (This does require Leasey from Hartgen Consultancy.)
As always, if you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to leave a comment & I’d be more than happy to assist you.
Recently, while working on this Lenovo Yoga laptop, I was reading something & wanted to increase the speaking rate of jaws permanently.
I remember being taught that the command to do this is control+Alt+page up, which is a tricky command, since my computer doesn’t have the “6-pack.”
So, what do I do?
Well, I could use Control+alt+fn+up arrow, but that didn’t work either.
What’s weird, is that doing control+alt+function+down arrow, to decrease works just fine.
The workaround for anyone else in this situation, which actually works consistently, is to disable numlock & press control+alt+fn+either numpad 9 to increase or numpad 3 to decrease.
If you have any questions, or need assistance with this, please leave a comment & I’d be more than happy to assist you.
Recently, I was working in my web browser on my computer & needed to leave to go somewhere.
But, I didn’t want to lose what I was looking at.
So, I sent the tab from my computer to my iPhone.
To perform the following steps, you’ll need Edge installed on all the devices you plan to use. It even works on Linux!
To send a tab to another device:
1. Press either alt+d or control+L to bring focus to the address bar.
2. Tab once. If your screen-reader says something about previous searches, remove them all, by tabbing then pressing enter until they’re all gone. (THE “send page” option & toolbar in general, won’t show up, until you do.)
3. Find the “send page” option & click it.
4. Choose the device you’d like to send the page to & there you go!
If you have any questions/issues, please comment & I’d be more than happy to assist you.
1. Root your jaws cursor to the PC cursor by pressing insert+numb pad minus.
2. Emulate a right mouse click by pressing numb pad/once. This is the key just to the left of numb pad minus.
You can now navigate the resulting menu as you normally would, using your arrow keys.
For those of us who like to browse the web from our iDevices, I was doing that recently & came across this feature.
From my experimentation, I can tell you that this tip works with #Brave & #MicrosoftEdge.
Below, is a very easy way to close specific tabs, assuming you don’t want to close them all.
To test this for yourself, try the following :
1. Open either Brave or Edge.
2. Put Voiceover focus on the item in the bottom right-hand corner of your iPhonescreen. (On iPad, it’s at the top.) Voiceover will say, “open tabs, immediately followed by a number. this number is the number of tabs you currently have open.
3. double tap this.
4. now, put Voiceover focus on an item you’d like to close and swipe three fingers to the left.