Training: Free

Are you an assistive technology (AT) teacher or a trainer? Do you need to be able to assist or help students who use JAWS? Are you a help desk support person who needs to support JAWS users in the field? If the answer to any of the questions above is "yes," this webinar is for you.

Product(s): JAWS, MAGic
CEU Credits: 1.20

Lessons

Lesson 1

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
Objectives:

Lesson One: Introduction, Starting JAWS and Defining Hot Keys. The lessons begin with a discussion of the workshop objectives and agenda. Learn to start JAWS from the desktop, start menu, and run dialog box. Set up a hot key to launch JAWS.

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Lesson 2

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Two: JAWS Training Materials and FSReader. Learn how to use FSReader, the free DAISY reader that is included with JAWS, to read and get the most out of our training materials.

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Lesson 3

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Three: JAWS Startup Wizard and Changing Settings Temporarily. Have you ever wished you could slow down (or speed up) the voice rate of JAWS on a computer so you could understand it more easily? Many settings in JAWS can be adjusted temporarily, without having to go into different managers or configuration dialog boxes. Learn the quick and easy way to change settings without making the changes permanent.

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Lesson 4

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Four: Braille and JAWS Utilities Menu Overview. Learn how to install a Braille display and make changes to Braille settings. Like many other JAWS settings, Braille settings can be made permanently or on a temporary basis. Look at a couple of items in the JAWS Utilities menu that end-users may want to change.

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Lesson 5

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Five: JAWS Help Menu, Help System, Screen Sensitive Help, Application Help, and More. JAWS has a wealth of help information built into it. Learn how to use the resources in the JAWS Help menu, including the JAWS Help system. Learn how and where to access the information you need quickly and easily.

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Lesson 6

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Six: JAWS Program Group, Including Braille Viewer, and HJPad. Learn about the resources available in the JAWS Program Group. HJPad is a free word processor complete with a spell checker that ships with JAWS. Braille Viewer is great for interpreting what is on a refreshable Braille display. Other items of discussion include exploring where user and shared settings are maintained, and other tools such as the Internet License Manager (ILM) authorization viewer.

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Lesson 7

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Seven: Basic JAWS Screen Reading Keys and Cursors Used with JAWS. Learn the basic screen reading keys used in JAWS. Discussion includes using three primary cursors with JAWS: the PC cursor, the JAWS cursor, and the virtual cursor.

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Lesson 8

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Eight: Cut, Copy, and Paste from the Keyboard and In Different Environments. Practice using Windows commands as well as JAWS commands to manipulate text. Learn to copy and paste text from not only word processing programs, but from a virtual environment where no visible cursor exists, and in some cases, where no visible text exists.

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Lesson 9

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Nine: JAWS Dictionary Manager. The JAWS Dictionary Manager is useful for pronouncing words or phrases that a speech synthesizer may not pronounce correctly. You can also create rules for specific languages, synthesizers, or voices.

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Lesson 10

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Ten: JAWS and HTML, including PlaceMarkers and Navigation Quick Keys. Learn about navigation quick keys, the list of links, the list of headings, and PlaceMarkers. General navigation in Internet Explorer is discussed.

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Lesson 11

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Eleven: Tables and Forms with JAWS on the Web. People use forms to enter information on websites, and output is often presented in tabular format dynamically. Learn how to use auto forms mode in JAWS to interact with forms in web pages or PDF documents. Learn JAWS table-reading keystrokes, and learn how JAWS reads row and column headers.

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Lesson 12

Experience Level: Beginner
Length: 1.0 hours
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Lesson Twelve: Custom Labels on the Web and Prompt Creator. JAWS allows you to assign custom text labels to almost any HTML element that you can move to by pressing the TAB key in Internet Explorer and web-based documents. These elements include text links, graphic links, form fields, and buttons. You can also label images on web pages. Learn to use this feature to customize the elements of any web page to help you navigate the page, reduce verbosity, compensate for incomplete or poorly labeled elements, and similar functions. Prompt Creator is used to label form fields or other controls and can provide tutor messages in a non-HTML program environment.

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