Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Val.
Hi Val!
No problem!
Here is the
Chrome tutorial again!
Google Chrome
Browser
By David Moore
This tutorial
will be done with the latest update of Chrome.
I will also use
JAWS 18 and NVDA 2017.2for this tutorial, because they
both work the same in Chrome.
Finally, I will
use Windows 10 Creators Update latest public build.
I will assume
that you have downloaded and installed Chrome.
There should be
a shortcut on your desktop.
Section One:
Launching
Chrome:
One way to
Launch Chrome, is to press the Windows key or CTRL+Escape
and type Chrome in the search edit field, and press enter
when you hear JAWS say Chrome.
However, since
you have already downloaded Chrome, You will have a
shortcut icon on your desktop.
So next, find
the shortcut for Chrome on your desktop, and press enter
to open Chrome.
The short cut
will actually say Google Chrome, so press G to find the
Google Chrome icon on your desktop.
The first very
important step, is to press Windows+up arrow to maximise
the window. Chrome often opens with the window not
maximise, and you will get undesirable results.
Section Two:
Bringing up a
web site.
Press CTRL+L or
Alt+D
and type the
following:
www.freedomscientific.com
The Freedom
Scientific web site comes up very quickly.
All navigation
commands like: H for heading, E for edit field, C for
combo box, and so on all work just the same in Chrome.
Section Three:
The Virticle
Chrome menu:
I will press
the Alt key.
The Chrome menu
is open.
This is a very
large virticle menu that you just keep pressing up and
down arrow through.
I will press
insert+up arrow to hear the first option in this menu.
New Tab,
CTRL+T.
You can press
that command right from the web site you are on.
New Window,
CTRL+N
You can press
these commands right from your web page, instead of coming
here.
New incognito
Window.
History sub
menu.
I will press
right arrow here to see what is in this sub menu!
History, CTRL+H
So, there is a
key command for reading your history.
You can read a
few sites you were on right here.
I will press
left arrow to close this history sub menu.
Downloads,
CTRL+J
There is the
command for opening your downloads you have downloaded
with Chrome.
Next, the
important Bookmarks sub menu.
I will press
right arrow, to open this.
I hear,
bookmark this page, CTRL+D
That command
will bookmark the page you are reading.
Next down
arrow, says show bookmarks bar, CTRL+Shift+B
That command,
will show your bookmarks on your Chrome browser for all to
see. I do not want that.
Here is the
important one.
manage
bookmarks
The command is,
CTRL+Shift+O
In here, you
can organize your bookmarks into folders, see the
bookmarks you have imported from different browsers, and
very importantly, you can download, to your computer, an
HTML file of all of your bookmarks in Chrome.
On your
computer, you can press enter on this file, after it
downloads, and a page will show up in Chrome with a list
of all bookmarks you have saved in Chrome. This is an
awesome way to download all of your bookmarks right to
your computer, so you can back them up.
That is all for
manage bookmarks.
Next, I hear
import bookmarks and settings.
press enter on
this, and you can import all bookmarks and settings from
IE, and Firefox, right into Google Chrome, and they will
be in their corresponding folders.
Now, I hear all
of my saved bookmarks as I continue to arrow down.
Very important!
Sometimes, when
I open that bookmarks sub menu, I do not land on the
choices I mension here, but instead, I start hearing my
saved bookmarks. If this happens, I press up arrow a few
times, and it gets me to these choices.
Keep in mind,
that many of these choices, like bookmark manager, have
key commands, so you do not have to come to this bookmarks
sub menu at all. You only need to come here most of the
time, to arrow through your saved bookmarks, and enter on
the desired one.
To save a web
site as a bookmark,
Just press
CTRL+D and press enter, and your bookmark is saved.
I will now
press left arrow, to close the Bookmarks sub menu!
I will continue
to down arrow through this virticle Chrome menu that we
entered by just pressing alt.
The next few
are very self explanatory.
The next one I
will mension, is the more tools submenu.
I will press
right arrow on this.
I hear Save
Page as, and the command, CTRL+S.
Next, Save to
desktop.
This allows you
to save the favorite of the page right to your desktop.
This is how you do this in Chrome, instead of doing this
in the file menu in IE.
It is hidden
under this more tools submenu.
Clear Browsing
data, and there is the key command, CTRL+Shift+Delete key.
Extentions, In
here, you can add extentions, delete extentions and so on.
These are the
same as add ons, in IE.
I will press
left arrow, to close the More Tools sub menu, and we are
back to the virticle Chrome menu.
The last two
that I will mention, are settings, and the help sub menu.
If you press
the left arrow on the help sub menu, you can open the help
system, just like in other programs, so that is all I will
say about help.
Now, we will
press enter on settings, and a web like page will open
where the virtual cursor will turn on with JAWS, and NVDA
will be in Brows mode.
Section Four:
Adjusting
Settings and Advanced settings:
Now that this
web page is open, I will just down arrow down the page and
we will deal with each setting.
Important:
I have already
signed into Chrome.
So now, arrow
down until you hear sign into Chrome and press enter.
You just enter
your email address and password, I think it has to be the
same email address and password that you used to set up
your Google account.
I am not sure
about this.
You do not need
to sign into Chrome, if you do, you can sync all of your
activity between all devices that you have Chrome on. That
is the only advantage of signing in.
I will continue
with what I hear after you have signed in.
If you do not
sign in, press H until you hear Appearance.
Each group of
settings is a heading that you can get to by pressing H.
This makes it very easy, because you just press H until
you hear the group of settings you want to work with.
Now, because I
have signed in, this is what I hear before getting to
appearance.
The first thing
you hear:
Settings.
That is the
very top of the web page.
Down arrow, and
you hear:
Main Menu
Button.
That will just
take you back to the virticle menu we were in.
If you down
arrow again, you will just hear blank.
Down arrow,
again, and you hear:
Settings again,
but now, this is a heading. You can get here just by
pressing H at the top of the page.
If you down
arrow, you hear:
Search
Settings.
This is where
you can type in a setting that you want to change.
Down arrow
again, and there is the edit field where you type in the
setting you want to work with.
Down arrow
again, and you hear another heading saying people.
Down arrow
again, and I hear David Clickable.
This is because
I have already signed into Chrome.
Down arrow
again, and I hear my Gmail email address.
Again, this is
because I have already signed into Chrome to sync my
settings and all of that.
Down arrow
again, and I hear:
Edit person.
This is where I
could change my name.
Down arrow
again, and I hear:
Sign Out.
This is because
I have already signed in to Chrome.
Down arrow
again, and I hear:
Sync.
Down arrow
again, and I hear:
On, Sync
everything.
This is a combo
box, where you can choose what to sinc; I chose everything
in this combo box.
Again, all of
this is because I have signed into Chrome already.
Down arrow
again, and you hear:
Sync button.
Down arrow
again, and you hear:
Manage other
people clickable.
Don't worry
about the clickables. There is a clickable for many
things, but then there is the button you enter on right
after that.
Down arrow
again, and you hear:
Manage other
people button.
This is what
you would press enter on to set up another user.
Down arrow
again, and you hear:
Import
bookmarks and settings Clickable:
Down arrow
again, and you actually hear
Import
bookmarks and settings button.
Here, you press
enter and import all of your bookmarks and settings from
other Browsers like IE.
This is another
way of doing this, because remember,
We had a choice
of manage bookmarks in the book marks sub menu in the
virticle menu.
There is more
than one place to do things in Chrome.
Now, we have a
series of headings, that you can just press H for heading,
to get to.
Now, we have
gotten to the appearance heading. Down arrow and you hear:
themes, which I
did nothing with.
Next, you can
open the Chrome web store. You can get hundreds of
extentions, and more.
Then, you hear
Themes button.
Do nothing with
this.
Next, you hear:
Show home
clickable.
Just skip that.
There are many
buttons that say clickable, and then there is a button
that you actually press enter on to work with it.
Just work with
the buttons, and skip over these vclickables.
Down arrow, and
you have an edit box where you can put in your home page
you want to get to by pressing Alt+Home.
Next, there is
the home button toggle.
Press the
spacebar to turn this on or off. If it is on, you can have
the home button show at the top of the Chrome Window.
I have it
checked.
Now, there are
two radio buttons, and I chose the one to enter with a
custom web address.
Search Heading:
We are at
another heading, where you can set your search Engine.
There is a
combo box below, and I set it to Chrome, because I like to
have my searches from the address bar done with Crome
instead of Bing.
Next heading:
Default
Browser.
Here, you can
choose weather you want Chrome to be your default browser
or not.
Just leave this
alone if you do not want Chrome to be your default
browser.
Next Important
heading:
On Start up.
Here is where
you put in your URL that you want to show as soon as you
start Chrome.
There are three
radio buttons to pick from, but I chose to open with a
specific page or pages, which is the third radio button.
Under this, you
can type in the URL of the web site that you want to open
when you start Chrome.
Under this,
there is a link where you can add more pages you want to
show when Chrome starts up.
Now, we are up
to the search engin heading.
This is a
heading.
There are
headings on this settings page.
I chose to use
Google search engin in the address bar. This is a combo
box.
The next
heading, is on start up.
Finally, here
is where you set up your home page.
There are three
radio buttons here.
I chose the
third one, to open a selected page or selected pages.
Next, I was
able to enter:
www.Google.Com.
That is my home
page that will open each time I start Chrome.
Next important
group of settings, the advanced settings.
Now, you have
to press enter on the advanced settings button before more
headings of settings will show.
The Advanced
settings are collapsed, so you have to press enter to show
more headings of settings.
Now that these
advanced settings are open, we get to the next heading of
settings.
There is much
more we can customize under the advanced settings.
Privacy and
security heading:
Down arrow from
here, and you hear:
Use a web
service to resolve navigation errors.
You have a
clickable, and a toggle.
Press spacebar
to toggle this on or off.
Again, ignore
the clickables.
Now you have:
Use a
prodiction service to enable you in searches.
I left this
unchecked.
Next, you have
a setting to speed up the loading of web pages:
I checked this
with spacebar.
The next three
settings I just left alone.
I checked the
one that says:
Use a web
service to help with spelling.
I leave manage
certificates alone.
Next, you have
content settings, but this is not a new heading.
We are still
working with the same heading.
The only thing
of interest here, is the clear history button.
This was
available in the virtical menu, so don't worry about this.
Now, we get to
the next heading of settings.
Passwords and
forms:
Under this
heading, just make sure that you check to be able to have
Chrome save passwords.
Languages
Heading:
I did nothing
with this.
Downloads
heading:
This is where
you choose where you want your downloads to be saved on
your computer.
Printing
heading:
I did nothing
with this.
Accessibility
heading:
I did nothing
with this.
Now, we have
the System heading:
Down arrow, and
you hear:
Continue
running background apps, when Google Chrome is Closed.
I have this
unchecked.
Next,
Use hard ware
excelloration when Available.
I have this
checked.
Next, you hear:
Open proxy
settings button.
I left this
alone.
Last Heading
LOL!
Reset.
Here, you can
reset all settings back to their origional.
We are done
with Settings.
Now, just press
CTRL+F4 to get back to the Freedom Scientific Web site.
This settings
web page, opens in another tab.
That is it for
settings.
Notice, we made
a lot of changes under the advanced settings. You cannot
see these, unless you press enter to expand these.
Now, press the
Alt key again. Up arrow once to get to the end of the menu
where we were with the settings.
You see exit,
up arrow and you see the help sub menu, right under the
settings choice.
I press right
arrow on this help sub menu, and you can enter on the help
center to get a lot of help using Chrome.
To open a web
site, just press CTRL+L or Alt+D and type the URL.
Chrome for me,
is so much quicker with web sites that involve streamming
TV and Watching movies, and so on.
For me, Chrome
opens large news sites very quickly compared to IE.
Lastly, All
JAWS and NVDA navigation key commands work in Chrome. For
example, you can press F7 to open a list of links with
JAWS, and the elements list with NVDA. All of that is the
exact same.
This is the end
of the tutorial.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Hi David!
Sorry to say
this, but i have lost the email you sent with the chrome
tutorial. I'm
afraid it accidentally got deleted with about 15o others!
I would be
obliged if you could send me this again, and i can assure
you, this time
it will get top priority and put in a folder especially
created for it.
Thank you so
much.
Val.
