Hi Brian,

 

I’ve seen this format used often in various screenreader manuals. Personally, I think it works fine. It would be accessible to any adaptive technology and any word editor. Maybe not sighted-friendly, but very useful without clutter in my opinion. Just my two cents.

 

Jean

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 06:47 am, Negoslav Sabev wrote:

Perhaps this will help.

http://www.jaws-users.com/text/Windows/10/index.html

Now, perhaps, is an opportunity to further my own education.  I went to this website, and the content is fabulous, but it's also not set up for sighted people (nor should it be, but I'm just saying).  I downloaded several of the "collections of all these in a single ZIP file" and unzipped same.  What follows is a straight paste from the file related to the Address Bar as it opens in Notepad on my computer:

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Address bar

Summary: These shortcuts are for using the Address bar.

 

table with 2 columns and 8 rows

To do this

Press this

 

Add www. to the beginning and .com to the end of text typed in the Address bar

 

Ctrl+Enter

 

Display a list of addresses you've typed

 

F4

 

In the Address bar, move the cursor left to the next break in the sentence

 

Ctrl+Left arrow

 

In the Address bar, move the cursor right to the next break in the sentence

 

Ctrl+Right arrow

 

Move backward through the list of AutoComplete matches

 

Down arrow

 

Move forward through the list of AutoComplete matches

 

Up arrow

 

Select the text in the Address bar

 

Alt+D

table end

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Clearly this file is not really intended to be read as plain text, but has instructions in it noting that you have a table with two columns and eight rows, with the two columns having headings of, "To do this," and, "Press this."

What program is a file formatted in this manner typically displayed, or perhaps displayed and read, using?   I can figure it out well enough, but this Notepad presentation wouldn't be a user-friendly way to read through it for anyone.

Brian