Introduction.
By very popular request our training course Jaw Muscles returns! Following the Jaw Muscles training course in 2022, we’ve had plenty of suggestions as to topics to cover and they have been taken on board. Here is a complete list of what was covered last year.
People often want to be more efficient when using the JAWS screen-reader. Particularly when in the workplace, this is especially important as they want to be able to demonstrate they can carry out tasks at a similar speed to their sighted colleagues. But it could also be helpful for people within education or within leisure pursuits.
In our experience, many people claim to be efficient screen-reader users. It transpires however that what they mean by that is that they’ve increased the speech rate significantly. While this is helpful, they are not familiar with the many shortcut keys and facilities built into JAWS to increase productivity. Our new training course will not only give you lots of shortcut keys to aid efficiency, but it will also show you the best ways to find what you are looking for, and demonstrate many JAWS gems with which you may not be familiar.
The topics covered are as follows:
- Introduction.
- Various Ways of Restarting JAWS.
- Speech History.
- Virtualising the Contents of a Window.
- Virtualising a specific Windows control.
- Are the correct scripts running?
- Reverting to the default settings if necessary, backing up good settings and restoring them.
- Refreshing the screen.
- Obtaining the application version number.
- Using Leasey to gain a full computer report.
- An introduction to AI chat.
- Google Bard.
- An overview of the Google Bard page.
- Setting up Placemarkers.
- Using the Placemarkers.
- JAWS Find.
- Moving by specific heading level.
- Bard conclusion.
- An Introduction to Custom Labels.
- Basic Usage of Custom Labels.
- Creating Custom Labels Intermediate Example.
- Custom Labels in a Challenging Environment.
- Backing Up Custom Labels.
- Modifying and Deleting Custom Labels.
- Obtaining the URL for a Link Particularly in Outlook.
- An Introduction to Smart Glance Highlights Using Amazon.
- Smart Glance Highlights On Audible.
- A Basic Introduction to Braille Options.
- An Introduction to Braille Split View.
- Assigning a Keystroke to SetBrailleView.
- An Overview of Basic Split Views.
- Specialist Application Split Views.
- Defining Key Assignments for Split Functions.
- Showing the Clock on the Braille Display.
- An Introduction to Face In View.
- Face In View Keystrokes and Additional Notes.
- Face In View Demonstration.
- Introduction to Cursors and Using the Scan Cursor.
- The Touch Cursor.
- Introduction to JAWS OCR.
- Scanning Documents.
- Processing Image Files.
- Scanning Contents of Application Windows or the Screen.
There are so many tools and utilities hidden inside JAWS to improve efficiency. It’s just a question of finding them.
Who Is The Course For?
This training course is certainly for JAWS users who wish to improve their screen-reading skills. But it is also for trainers of Assistive Technology. We’ve seen many instances where people are trained to use the Microsoft application shortcut keys, and this is all very fine. But as trainers, we would suggest it is our duty to teach people about the added JAWS benefits provided by other keystrokes. If we can avoid unwanted key presses, not only does it make someone more efficient at using a computer but it also avoids the onset of conditions such as repetitive strain injury. All the unnecessary key presses a person has to do add up over the course of a day.
This training course is suited to anyone using recent releases of JAWS or ZoomText Fusion. The training course is provided in both audio and text formats so is ideal for anyone who is unable to hear audio content or for quick reference. A DAISY audio rendering of the course is also included.
The total running time for the training course is just under five hours.
The cost of the course is £50 which is currently 62 US dollars.
While it is by no means a requirement for course participation, we are offering an additional package if you do not have our Leasey product. One of the main advantages of Leasey is to add even more productivity tools to those already available within JAWS. JAW Muscles with Leasey is available at a substantially reduced rate for a combined total of £80 which is approximately $100 US.
Please enter your JAWS or Fusion serial number here.
Alternatively, anyone can purchase either package by sending an Email to jaws@hartgen.org, whereupon a fully accessible electronic invoice will be sent to you which can be paid through PayPal or any major credit or debit card. Orders can also be processed by telephone.
Summary.
While many people can use computing applications with the keyboard at a basic level, we want to lick your screen-reading skills into shape, especially in modern computing environments. We’ll show you plenty of strategies you probably didn’t know about. Once you’ve completed our new training course, you will be able to show everyone your screen-reading muscles!