If you are a Leasey Advanced user only, JAWS will interpret web pages in the usual way and all the navigation keys are available. However, there are some additional tools you may like to take advantage of, described elsewhere in this document, including:
Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave or Microsoft Edge Chromium browsers are supported for use with Leasey.
You will notice that, if sounds are enabled, a tone will play when a new page is loaded and a "backwards" sound can be heard when you move back to a previous page.
Pressing full-stop (or period) by itself will move to the next link irrespective of its type, whether it has been visited or unvisited.
Pressing Comma by itself will move to the previous link irrespective of its type, whether it has been visited or unvisited.
If you are using Microsoft Edge, you may come across situations where JAWS is advising you of the status of page activity, such as "Loading Page". Some people find this very helpful while others do not. Leasey attempts to suppress some of these messages from being spoken. To attempt to stop such messages from being spoken, press Control+Shift+A while within Microsoft Edge. This is a toggle keystroke to enable and disable such messages. This is only applicable to JAWS versions earlier than 2022. In version 2022, Vispero have a feature available called Notification History where you can control such spoken or Braille-based output.
Note that it is possible to remove some of the messages which are being filtered so they will be spoken. For example, if you would like the majority of messages emanating from Microsoft Edge to be filtered, with the exception of the phrase "Going Back", you can cherry-pick the ones you want.
In the following folder, there is a file called Edge.TXT. c:\LeaseyData\JAWSFiles
Simply open up that file and remove the messages to avoid them being filtered, in our example, Going back. Similarly, if Microsoft introduce additional messages which are unwanted in the future, you can add these to the text file.
Most people however will want to leave this file intact.
You may also encounter a situation as follows. If you activate a link on a web site by pressing Enter so as to reveal a new page, then press ALT+Left Arrow so as to return to the previous page, JAWS may not remember the position where the Virtual Cursor was previously located. To attempt to relocate your previous position on the page, press the Leasey key then Control+Shift+R. You can apply this function automatically by pressing ALT+Windows+R which will enable or disable it. In that event, whenever you move back to a page, Leasey will attempt to more thoroughly relocate your position on the page where you left off reading.
A number of other utilities exist which require special explanation.
Using Microsoft Internet Explorer, locating sites you had previously stored as Favourites was an easy process. All such shortcuts used to be placed in a special folder for the purpose, which could be located from the Windows "Start Menu", or indeed a Shortcut could be placed on the Windows Desktop. Activating such a shortcut would take you into a list of all your Favourites which if necessary you could divide into separate sub-folders so as to group them into categories.
Unfortunately, those days are gone. If you store a site as a Favourite in a modern browser, it is accommodated within a specially constructed database which you have to work through inside the browser. Leasey takes away this frustration and provides you wit a method of storing shortcuts to Favourites either within your Favourites folder you may have previously used, or indeed any folder of your choosing.
Prior to reading through this option, we suggest you review the section of this documentation on the subject of LeaseyCuts, because the creation of LeaseyCuts is far easier than what is described here. However, old habits die hard, and it could be that you would still prefer to use the old method of working with Favourites.
Before you begin, you must instruct Leasey as to which folder contains your Favourites. So, either open up the Favourites folder you previously used, or alternatively, browse to a new one. In most cases, what you are about to do is a one time process unless you specifically want to store Favourites in a new folder at a later time. You can also store favourites in subsequent folders if you wish, which will be described below, however this is an optional step.
Now, press ALT+L. The location is stored permanently unless you change it.
There is nothing further to do. Just browse to the folder in File Explorer, or by locating your Favourites folder, and your newly created Favourite will be there waiting for you.
It could be that you wish to save Favourites in additional folders. Let's assume for example that you have a folder into which you wish to place web site favourites you visit for stores. You might have a separate folder for music related sites and so on.
If this is the case, please do the following.
First, browse to the new folder using File Explorer into which favourites could potentially be saved. Open it up by pressing Enter so you are inside the folder.
Press ALT+L. If you did this using the first incarnation of Leasey version 5, we suggest you go through this process again as Leasey needs to know more information about the folder.
Repeat as necessary until all your folders are set.
Now, browse to the site into which the favourite should be stored in one of your folders.
Press ALT+W. This now brings into view a list of all the folders you have set.
Arrow down until you reach the folder you wish to use, then press Enter to move to the next stage.
You should now be on familiar ground. The name of the previously focused page is already displayed in the edit field. You can leave it intact, edit it or Type in a new name and press Enter. If you open up that new folder now, you should see the shortcut in there.
Points to note. First, any favourites you save from this point forward will be placed in the newly designated folder. If you wish to go back to one of your original folders, you should press ALT+W, and set it as described earlier.
Secondly, if you would like to delete one of the folders from the list, this can be done by pressing ALT+W, finding the folder name, and pressing the Leasey Key followed by Delete. This does not in any way remove the folder from the computer. This would not be good practice. All Leasey is doing is removing the linking mechanism between Leasey and the folder itself.
You may know that as you are browsing web pages, you can open the focused web page in a new Tab. For example, when focused on a Link, you can open it in a new Tab by pressing Control+Enter. JAWS confirms that a new Tab has been created.
There are a number of ways by which you can navigate through the Tabbed pages. The easiest way would be to press Control+Tab or Control+Page Down to move forward through Tabs, and press Shift+Control+Tab or Control+Page Up to move in the reverse direction. You can also press Control+1 through to Control+8, using the numbers above the letter keys. This will automatically set focus to any one of the first eight Tabs in the order in which they were created.
But what if you cannot remember which Tab is associated with any one of the eight keystrokes? There are two things you can do to remind you.