Jaws Key Commands

[Jennifer Downey]

Thefollowing list of JAWS keyboard commands or keyboard shortcuts help anyone working in the area of digital accessibility as a reference document. This document also helps developers to check for screen reader conflicts while implementing access keys. These JAWS keyboard commands should work on all Windows based browsers. See the Maxability recommended screen reader Vs browser combination for accessibility.

JAWS is a commercial screen reader by FreedomScientific. If you have not already downloaded the JAWS screen reader for windows, Go to JAWS download page, however read the Freedom scientific terms and conditions of using the software.

The following list of keyboard shortcuts should be helpful to a wide array of individuals and can be used as a quick reference guide. First, this guide will help JAWS users navigate within Internet Explorer. Second, this guide will be helpful to increase the awareness of web content developers regarding keyboard shortcuts that would conflict with JAWS. Finally, programmers will find the keyboard commands typical for JAWS user a helpful reference.

Is your student learning to navigate tables? Editing documents? Navigating forms? Use the spreadsheet to quickly find the commands to complete the desired activity. Concerned that you might not know all the commands, or that you have forgotten a command? Easily look them up here. The topics currently available in the Braille Tech Goal Log are:

Paths to Technology has numerous posts about JAWS (including video tutorials) and lesson plans. Note: Some of the lesson plans may be written for other devices/screen readers, but the activities/content can be used to teach JAWS commands.

This seems to work well outside of using JAWS but I've found when I open JAWS to read the screen, its own keyboard commands take over such that if I hit the right arrow key, the screen reader will read the next letter in the narration rather than moving to the next slide.

I did some research and found specific keyboard commands for JAWS and in the example above, clicking ALT + Right arrow should allow you to move forward to the next slide. No problem I thought, I'll just change the trigger to accept that command.

Unfortunitly the keyboard command programed in Storyline seems to be overridden by the keyboard command with JAWS. Does anyone know how to marry the two together so that if I use the ALT + right arrow command as a trigger is Storyline, it will actually move the to the next slide? Currently the screen reader says "forward" out loud, but the slides do not advance. I could be missing something simple, I hope...

Storyline doesn't allow the alt + right arrow key to work in preview as a trigger, and we've shared that with our QA team for review, but it does work within the Published output. Have you tested it there?

I did try it out as a published file and put up on SCORM cloud for their sandbox. Perhaps I'm missing something there but upon publishing I did ensure the ALT + arrow key was the trigger and I still found the slide wasn't advancing although JAWS was saying "forward".

Are you able to try it without JAWS enabled just to confirm that the trigger is working? Also I know JAWS is fairly specific in terms of needing to run in the latest version of JAWS, and Internet Explorer - also JAWS needs to be started before the course is started. Additionally are you able to navigate other parts of the course using JAWS and it's just this one trigger that isn't working?

Interestingly enough I tried it without the JAWS reading activated and the "alt + right arrow" didn't seem to work as a trigger, BUT the right arrow on its own seemed to still work (although I changed the trigger to include the ALT + right arrow).

Thanks for sharing your file, and I was able to publish and test it here at SCORM Cloud. I was able to use the ALT + Right arrow key to navigate to the next slide (I only tested that first slide where I saw all the triggers set up) and it worked normally. I didn't run it with JAWS open, but if you want to take a look at my version let me know how it behaves for you. It's also worth noting I was testing in Chrome so I also took a look at it in IE and that key trigger combination did not seem to work there. I was able to use all the other key triggers, but I know that key triggers can be a bit particular as they could be associated with browser actions as well.

I too came across similar problem. I created slide navigation through right and left arrow triggers. The triggers seem to be working fine on a normal browser. However, when I tried to browse the story.html while Jaws was still running, the triggers don't seem to work.

Thanks Ashley for your response. I tested my published story on IE 11 using JAWS 17, as already suggested in another thread. I figured out that keys such arrow keys, which are used by JAWS itself, cannot be used as triggers in SL2, as these keys get overridden by JAWS controls. I ended up using ctrl+backspace and ctrl+enter for my slide navigation triggers.

I am also preparing a tutorial where I need to create keyboard triggers that will allow learners to navigate to the next screen and select images on the screen. Is there a how-to video that you could direct me to? I am struggling with understanding how Jaws works. Is there a Jaws reader that I can download and test my published files?

Keyboard commands or shortcuts are combination of two or more keys used to perform frequently used tasks of an application. For most users keyboard shortcuts are an alternate means of accessing the function whereas for those with visual impairments keyboard shortcuts are the only means of performing different tasks in an application.

The following is a list of JAWS commands for reading information contained in a table. Some of these commands also work when using MAGic alone. When running JAWS alone, or both JAWS and MAGic together, all commands listed below work. A description that has an asterisk (*) next to it signifies it also will work when using MAGic alone. To close this page, press ALT+F4.

Does anyone have a guide to Canvas using JAWS. I have asked Canvas help and they have said it is up to JAWS to provide it - but JAWS clearly doesn't provide guides for every piece of software available and Cnavas is a closed environment anyway.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it really doesn't answer the question. The links that Dana provides to JAWS are just overall JAWS commands. I have literally spent HOURS just sitting and pressing all the various commands to find out what they actually do within Canvas. I am trying to find quick and easy ways for our blind students to navigate around Canvas - and it really isn't easy. At my last university, we used Brightspace, and it was brilliant as they have a blind employee who is able to provide all sorts of help with accessibility - not just for blind students either. We had regular webinars and users with various disabilities shared and there was a whole bank of good practice materials. It just feels like the buck is being passed here when there are probably a lot of us who want to provide much better support and documentaion for our VI users. I do feel like I have probably managed to document the main points now, but it would just be so helpful to get some real feedback from VI students who use it regularly or from somewhere that has evolved proper documentation.

On the PC

Perform a Bluetooth search. When the Brailliant is displayed in the list of Bluetooth devices, select the Brailliant from the list. When prompted for an authentication code, type the code "1111", and then confirm this.

Braille keyboard:

Use the 8-dot Perkins Braille keyboard to enter text. The 8 keys of the Braille Keyboard are located above the Braille display. Some commands are also done using Braille letters in combination with the Space bar. For example Space with the letter M to open the Menu bar.

Thumb Keys:

The keys facing you are normally operated by your thumbs so we call them "Thumb keys" to differentiate them from the main keyboard keys .Use the Thumb Keys for Braille navigation.

Entering text using your Brailliant's keyboard is very straightforward. Typing characters, changing lines, deleting characters, entering uppercase characters, and moving inside the text. JAWS simultaneously updates the Braille display to reflect what you type.

Please find below a list of suggested default Braille keystrokes for the Brailliant that have been included in the Window-Eyes Braille.ini file. Feel free to alter these defaults keystrokes if they do not meet your needs.

Being a low vision user, before I was introduced to screen readers I always wondered if I could ever use a computer. As all I knew of computer was it was a powerful tool to get information over the internet, which had a monitor which displays the information, a keyboard to type the data and a mouse to navigate and click the interactive elements.

Though at first I found it difficult and tiring job as I had to navigate to entire page with the arrow keys. But as I explored more I found many keystrokes that helped in scanning through a page through heading, quickly jumping to links, finding the form field etc.

Now Screen readers such as NVDA, JAWS and many more is been a part of my day to day job. But sometimes I too get confused with some of the keystrokes. So I always keep a Cheat sheet for screen reader commands handy with me!

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JAWS is a multi-site workflow manager that uses the Cromwell workflow engine. Some main directives of JAWS are to make running of bioinformatics workflows easier, foster collaboration between users of the system, and make it possible to move workloads across different resources.

The user interfaces only with the jaws-client. The jaws-client communicates with jaws-central to move data to the target site and hands over the workflow executions to the respective jaws-site service which in turn runs the workflow to completion and relays the status back to jaws-central. Globus is used as a transfer mechanism between a central data storage location and target sites. The execution of workflows by jaws-site is orchestrated by Cromwell.

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