LeaseyPoints.

Introduction.

The LeaseyPoints facility is an extremely powerful tool which will dramatically assist you while working with your documents and when navigating web pages on the Internet. LeaseyPoints allow you to locate passages of text upon demand.

LeaseyPoints can be created within Microsoft Word, Microsoft Edge, Brave or Google Chrome. Up to 10 LeaseyPoints can be set for each file, website or webpage. There is also the facility to set a global set of LeaseyPoints which can be used within any document or web page.

Using LeaseyPoints in Microsoft Word.

LeaseyPoints can be used while reading Microsoft Word documents (such as books, journals or reports) where the text is unlikely to be changed, and also when you are constantly interacting with a document you are working on. After all, Microsoft Word is a word processor isn’t it? Of course you are going to change the text in a document! LeaseyPoints have great value in either circumstance. LeaseyPoints can be used within Microsoft Word even if the JAWS “Quick Navigation Keys” have been enabled by pressing the JAWS Key and Z. There is no need to exit this mode prior to setting or retrieving a LeaseyPoint.

You can set LeaseyPoints by first pressing the Leasey Key followed by Control+1 through to Control+0 to represent the 10 LeaseyPoints which can potentially be set. So pressing the LeaseyKey followed by Control+1 will set LeaseyPoint 1 and pressing the Leasey Key followed by Control+0 will set LeaseyPoint 10.

1. Please open a blank Microsoft Word document and type two short paragraphs. For example, you might start the first paragraph with the words "I am very much enjoying using Leasey!"
2. Press Control+Home To make sure you are at the top of your document.
3. Press Control+Right Arrow until the word, "Much", is spoken.
4. Set a LeaseyPoint by pressing the Leasey Key and then Control+1. You will hear a low musical tone to indicate the LeaseyPoint has been set. The greater the LeaseyPoint number, the higher the tone. LeaseyPoints are designed to be quick and easy to use. There is no need to delete an existing LeaseyPoint before setting a new one of the same number in an alternative location. So, if you’ve already set LeaseyPoint 1 elsewhere in this document, it will be overwritten automatically.
5. Insure that you are still located on the first word of your first paragraph and type the following: “I’ll add a new paragraph to my document. As a result, the line of text that I set to a LeaseyPoint will be in a different location.”
6. Now press the ENTER Key twice to place a blank line between this new paragraph and the existing ones.
7. Press the Leasey Key and then press the number 1 by itself. Again, you will hear the sound indicating LeaseyPoint 1 and although the line of text you originally set the LeaseyPoint to is not in the same location as before, focus will move to the LeaseyPoint and speak the line. Not only that, but observe that the cursor is placed at the start of the word, "Much", which was the original location of the cursor prior to setting the LeaseyPoint.

If you do not wish Leasey to speak the line when a LeaseyPoint is found, press the Leasey Key followed by 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 LeaseyPoint, 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.

When you return to this document in the future, JAWS will announce that LeaseyPoints are available.

To bring into view a list of LeaseyPoints for the document, press the Leasey Key then ALT+Control+P. The list shows the text pertaining to each LeaseyPoint, with each one being preceeded by a number. The number denotes the LeaseyPoint assigned to the text in the list item and is designed so you can get to learn which LeaseyPoint is associated with each part of text. Use the Down Arrow key to move to the part of the text you wish to locate and then press Enter.

LeaseyPoints Using Brave, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

Now we will look at using LeaseyPoints on the Internet.

Please note: while examples of LeaseyPoint 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.

If you do not wish Leasey to speak the line when a LeaseyPoint is found, press the Leasey Key followed by dash (to the immediate right of zero on the desktop keyboard). Pressing this key combination repeatedly rotates between character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, SayAll and Activate Link. 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 LeaseyPoint, 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.

If the Activate Link option is selected, and if a LeaseyPoint is attached to a link, the link will be automatically activated. This saves you time if you wish to associate a LeaseyPoint to a link pointing to a web page. Activating the LeaseyPoint in the future will cause JAWS to move to that link and activate it, thus taking you to the selected page the link points to. A powerful feature!

In the event that the Activate Link option has been set, and you associate a LeaseyPoint to text which does not form part of a link, the current line is announced instead.

1. Please launch your web browser and browse to www.google.com or www.google.co.uk if you prefer.
2. Carry out a search for “Strawberry Picking”. Press Enter to begin the search.
3. On the new page which is loaded, please press the letter “H” repeatedly until JAWS says, “Search Results”. Our intention is to set a LeaseyPoint on this page so we can always locate the term “Search Results”, since in the future, this will take us quite near to where the results begin.
4. Press ALT+Windows+Control+Dash repeatedly until JAWS says "Domain Mode". There are two types of LeaseyPoints you can create on web pages, those specific to a domain (which relates to the entire web site), or for an individual page). In this example, we do need the LeaseyPoint set to a specific domain. If we do not put this in place, Leasey will not be able to locate the chosen phrase when you carry out a subsequent search on Google, as the address of the page is different each time. This setting remains in place even when you restart the computer and is in most cases the one you require.
5. Press the Leasey Key then Control+1. A sound will play and JAWS will announce that LeaseyPoint 1 has been set.
6. Now carry out another Google search, but this time, please search for “Delicious fruits”. Press Enter to begin the search.
7. When the new page has been loaded containing the search results, you will notice that, in addition to announcing the number of Headings and Links on the page, JAWS also speaks the term “Leasey Points”, indicating that at least one LeaseyPoint is available. press the Leasey Key followed by figure 1. Focus is moved to the position of the LeaseyPoint and the sound plays to indicate that LeaseyPoint 1 has been located.

To bring into view a list of LeaseyPoints for the page, press the Leasey Key then ALT+Control+P. The list shows the text pertaining to each LeaseyPoint, with each one being preceeded by a number. The number denotes the LeaseyPoint assigned to the text in the list item and is designed so you can get to learn which LeaseyPoint is associated with each part of text. Use the Down Arrow key to move to the part of the text you wish to locate and then press Enter.

Using Default LeaseyPoints.

This feature works in exactly the same way in which you have previously learned to set and locate LeaseyPoints, with one important difference. The default LeaseyPoints will always look for specific text in any document or web page.

Let us assume that you always want to look for the phrase, "Chapter 3", whichever document you happen to be within. This is a good case for using default LeaseyPoints. So lets learn how to use them with that term, "Chapter 3", in mind.

1. First, we need to switch to default LeaseyPoint mode. We do this by pressing the Leasey Key then Control+Dash.
2. Now open the first document containing the term, "Chapter 3", and set a LeaseyPoint by pressing the Leasey Key followed by Control+1.
3. Now open the second document containing the phrase, "Chapter 3".
4. Press the Leasey Key followed by 1. You should find the cursor is placed on the line containing the term, "Chapter 3".

Deleting a LeaseyPoint.

By far the easiest method for removing a LeaseyPoint is to simply overwrite it. For example, if you had set a LeaseyPoint on Google to look for the word, "Results", and you now decide that you want it to locate the word, "Search", instead, just overwrite the LeaseyPoint with the new term by recreating it. There is no need to delete it first, and indeed for Default LeaseyPoints, this is exactly what you should do.

Because you can set up to 10 LeaseyPoints per document or web page, we must take care to ensure that you are deleting the correct one.

1. Focus upon the document or web page on which the LeaseyPoint you wish to remove has been stored.
2. Press the Leasey Key then ALT+Control+D.
3. A list of all the LeaseyPoints you have set for the document or web page appears. Use the Up or Down Arrow keys to move to the LeaseyPoint you wish to delete, then press Enter to remove it. It should be easy to find which one you wish to delete because Leasey will always display the text associated with the LeaseyPoint.
4. You will also notice that at the bottom of the list is an option to delete all the LeaseyPoints for the focused document or web page. Press Enter to do this.