0026 – Using JAWS; a workshop with NCBI

Show-notes. “Using JAWS; a workshop with NCBI”

Podcast 25-03-2021 – 13.00

Title: 0026 – Using JAWS; a workshop with NCBI

Subtitle: Introducing JAWS, the PC screen reader, with Brian Manning and Sean Doran from the NCBI

Link:

Season: 2

Episode: 26

Hosts: 

Allen Higgins 

Guests: 

Brian Manning 

Sean Dorn

Post-Production:

Ruth Campion

Allen Higgins

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Welcome to Design Talk

This episode was recorded on Thursday 25th of March 2021, with Brian Manning and Sean Doran from the NCBI, the National Council for the Blind of Ireland.

Brian introduces and demonstrates JAWS after which Sean talks about how the underlying structure of web pages are used by screen reader applications like JAWS, for both navigation and to communicate content for visually impaired users.

JAWS is a PC screen reader application and was developed for people with vision loss. 

It enables you to navigate and control a computer without needing to see the screen or to use a mouse. 

Input is via the keyboard and output is by computer speech feedback.

Brian opens the session…

(see https://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/software/JAWS/)

Topics covered in this episode:

Becoming a JAWS+Windows power user - assuming you can touch-type on the PC keyboard.

Starting out: Input is through the keyboard, and speech for output (computer speech feedback)

With JAWS activated start by typing the Windows key on the keyboard. The Windows key activates the Windows Start menu 

You can navigate using:

•Tab key

•Enter key

•Arrow keys

•First letter navigation

•Ins

•Ctrl

•Combination key shortcuts

•Using standard keyboard shortcuts in applications

•Alt+F4 to close the current window

•Using your own shortcut key combinations

•Navigating a website (there is nearly always more than one way to navigate an App or website or application) 

Followed by a discussion on how screen-readers deal with web pages.

[Closing comments] 

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[Thank the panel and guests] 

Thank you Sean for helping us better understand how the underlying structure web pages are used by screen readers.

And thanks to Brian for demonstrating how he uses JAWS to use his PC.

Thank you for listening.

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And look out for more episodes of Design Talk.

Thanks to Ruth Campion for sound editing

The music used was EzaOne – Supernova, released by the Argofox label under a CC BY license.

Acknowledgements

Music by Argofox (CC-BY license)

https://soundcloud.com/argofox/ezaone-supernova

(EzaOne - Supernova: youtu.be/xZDYu5azS-c)

Title: “Eza One - Supernova”

Artist: “Argofox”

Source: “https://soundcloud.com/argofox/ezaone-supernova”

License: “CC BY”

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