LeaseyAlerts.

Introduction.

Have you ever been confronted with a situation where you've been to a website, and you always want to come back to the same place if it exists each time you visit it? Google would be a very good example, When you've searched for something, and the new page loads, you do not want to have to find where the search results start.

A LeaseyAlert will not only advise you that the text exists, but it will also set focus to the relevant area of the page. All you need do is set up the LeaseyAlert and then forget about it, unless you want to delete it.

Setting a LeaseyAlert.

Please note: while examples of LeaseyAlert creation and usage are given in relation to individual web sites, it is more than possible that the content of the web sites concerned will have changed following publication of this User Guide. The examples given therefore are just that: mere examples of hypothetical situations which will need to be adapted according to the individual web sites being used.

We will first create a LeaseyAlert to set focus to the Search results on Google.

  1. Visit www.google.co.uk or www.google.com.
  2. In the Search Edit Field, type the words "dog food" and press Enter to carry out the search.
  3. When the new page loads, press the letter H until you hear the words, "Search Results".
  4. Press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+A to set the LeaseyAlert. An Edit Field will be available to you containing the text of the current line on the page, in this case, "Search Results".
  5. If this is correct, press Enter to save the LeaseyAlert.
  6. Now, into the Google Search Edit Field, type "Cat Food" and press Enter to carry out the search.
  7. Notice how, this time, you hear the LeaseyAlert sound and the JAWS virtual Cursor is placed on the words, "Search Results". You can now press Down Arrow to read them.

We will vary that example slightly now by setting a LeaseyAlert on the Amazon website.

  1. Browse to www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com.
  2. In the Search Edit Field, type a search term, such as "The Beatles", and press Enter.
  3. Look for the first Heading on the page which will read something like "1-16 of 69,238 results for the beatles."
  4. Press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+A to set the LeaseyAlert. An Edit Field will be available to you containing the text of the current line on the page, in this case, "1-16 of 69,238 results for the beatles."
  5. Please edit this text carefully and give it some thought. When you visit this page again, you are not going to be searching for the Beatles, nor are the number of results returned going to be the same. On this page, you are in the future going to search for the word "results". So please either edit the text until only that word is available, or just type the word "results" over the top of the text displayed. We will type the word, "results", without a capital letter "R".
  6. Press Enter to save.
  7. Now carry out a further search on amazon. This time, we will search for the movie, "Gone with the Wind". Please type it into the Search Edit Field and press Enter.
  8. Notice how, this time, you hear the LeaseyAlert sound and the JAWS virtual Cursor is placed on the phrase containing the word , "results". You can now press Down Arrow to read them.

If you do not wish Leasey to speak the line when a LeaseyAlert is found, press the Leasey Key followed by Shift+dash (to the immediate right of zero on the desktop keyboard). Pressing this key combination repeatedly rotates between character, word, line, sentence, paragraph and SayAll. So, if you select line, the line of text will be announced. If you selected SayAll, JAWS will begin reading from the cursor position of the LeaseyAlert, either until the end of the document is reached or until you press the Control key. This setting is retained even if the computer is restarted.

Deleting a LeaseyAlert.

To delete a LeaseyAlert, simply focus upon the webpage to which it is attached, and press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+D. Back to Help Index.