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Personalized Web Settings using JAWS
Now with JAWS 5.0, you can even customize buttons and form field prompts.
BUTTON
JAWS recognizes buttons on a Web page by different ways such as:
- Screen text
- Alt tag
- Value
- Longest
- Title
By default, JAWS is set to recognize buttons by screen text on a Web page.
FORM FIELD PROMPTS
JAWS identifies form field prompts on a Web page using different ways such as:
- Label tag
- Title
- Alt attribute
- Longest
- Label and title if different
- Label and alt if different
By default, JAWS is set to use label tag to identify form field prompts on a Web page.
To customize JAWS for reading HTML elements on a Web page:
- Press Insert + V to open the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog box.
- Press Up or Down arrow to select the required element, to be customized.
- Press Spacebar to toggle through the options available.
- Choose the required option and press Enter to close the dialog box.
Placemarkers
We have all read books during some time in our life. But did we manage to finish it in one go? How
did you know where to continue reading from? Did you leave the book open till the next time you read it?
Did you remember the page numbers of various half-read books? All you would do is use a simple
bookmark in each book to know where you have stopped reading.
Similarly, we often come across lengthy Web pages. Have you felt lost reading a lengthy Web page?
Found it very tiresome to get back to the point where you had stopped reading? Ever wished that you could
mark a particular location on a Web page, so that you could continue reading from there the next
time you visited
the Web page?
JAWS 5.0 onwards these problems have been solved. PlaceMarkers are a brilliant feature added to JAWS 5.0 that enables you to mark important information on a Web page.
You can set PlaceMarkers for reading relevant information found on a lengthy document, or filling up
a complex form. You can set either temporary or permanent PlaceMarker.
