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Today I'm going to walk you through the process of changing how much information Jaws gives you and where you can go to experiment with that a little. Now this is called verbosity, and verbosity is how much information you are presented as the user. Think about it like this. Honestly, I asked ChatGPT what's the best way to explain verbosity to a user who might not be as familiar with this term? And the scenario it gave was Think about when you ask someone for directions, some people are more in depth than others. One person might say something like go down the road, make a right and it'll be there on your left. Another person, when asked the same question, might say, go down the road by three and a half miles there will be a gas station on your right hand side, just past it at the light, make a right, and then the destination of your favorite restaurant will be on the left with the sign on the door. Can you tell how you got the same information but some of that information was omitted in the first example? So we can use verbosity settings to customize what it is we hear when we're navigating the web, and hopefully this will make a little more sense to you when we jump into it. I have my verbosity set to medium, which means I hear some things, but there's other things I don't want to hear. For example, when I'm arrowing through, I don't really care how many items are inside a list because I don't use list navigation. So it would save me an arrow key if I disabled list announcements. And we'll walk you through that process. So I'm going to demonstrate this to you by jumping in and exploring the Unmute show website. If I press my down arrow, I.
Hear link Skip to content Visited link Graphic Unmute Primary navigation region List of 6 items visited Current Page Link Home Link News Link Episodes Link About Link Unmute Merch Link Sign in List End Primary Navigation Region End Main Region Article Heading Level one Home Heading Level three Unmute Be heard and that's the top.
Of the homepage that you hear. If you're just down arrowing. There's a lot of extraneous information that is nice to be aware of, but I don't need to hear every time. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to press jaws key and.
The number 6 jaws settings center dialog search box edit type in text control.
Plus e. This puts you into a search field where you can press tab.
Once Preview User closed 1 of 27 to move through or expand items, use the arrow keys and then down arrow to web HTML pdfs closed because this.
Is closed, we'll tap our right arrow to open it.
Web HTML pdfs open 8 items and.
Then down arrow at this point.
Level 1 reading closed 1 of 8 and we'll tap right arrow reading open 10 items read only edit Use the options in this group to customize how web pages, HTML files, and PDF files are read. Use your reading keys to read the.
Text and we press the tab key to get that information. So I'm going to shift tab back.
To the settings preview reading open 10 items to move through or expand item.
And we know that there are 10 items in this category, so I'm going.
To Down Arrow Level 2 Web Verbosity Level Medium 1 of 10 Reading Web HTML pdfs this is a preset verbosity.
Level that I have mine set to, which is currently medium. If we press our down arrow configure.
Web Verbosity levels closed we can configure.
The web Verbosity level and because it's closed, we'll tap right arrow to open it.
Configure web Verbosity levels Open three items.
And there are three items. I know that those are low, medium, and high. I'm going to choose medium and press.
The space bar Level three high one of medium.
That tells me that this has a dialog available. So when I press the space bar, I'll be able to access more options.
Medium Virtual Cursor Verbosity Preferences Dialog Announce Start and End for colon Preview block quotation checked one of 15 to move through or expand items, use the arrow keys alt s Now this gives me.
A list of 15 items. It's actually more than that that I can go down and check or uncheck the whether or not I hear those items.
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Here and I'm gonna uncheck that list.
Not checked 9 of 15 if I.
Press my down arrow again Log checked.
Note checked regions partially checked level one application not checked one of 11 and.
Now I'm in 11 different regions that could be spoken or not. So if I tap down arrow article checked article is fine because our support tool uses articles. Actually this will save me some time, so I'm going to uncheck article article.
Not checked 2 of 11 and then down arrow Banner not checked Complementary information Not checked Content information Not checked Document not checked form not checked Main Region.
Checked I'm going to uncheck Main region.
Main Region not checked 8 of 11 Navigation Region checked Uncheck Navigation Region Navigation region not checked 9 of 11 and.
You might wonder what does that mean if you press your tab key Read.
Only Edit Use your reading keys to read the text. The navigation region usually contains a collection of navigational elements. Left parent usually links Right parent For navigating a page or related pages, select this item to here where Navigation region starts and ends. Start and end strings are shown by default for this item at this verbosity level.
If I press Shift tab announce Start.
And end for colon Preview Region Not Checked Search Region Not Checked When I'm.
Done making my choices, if I press.
Tab twice, read OK button to activate press spacebar alt o I can press.
Spacebar or tap alt o to quickly.
Activate OK Jawsetting Center Sets dialog Preview Level 3 Medium 2 of 3 Configure Web Verbosity Levels Reading Web HTML pdfs to move through or expand items use the arrow keys.
Now there's another option that I'd like to change, so I'm going to tap my down arrow until I get to.
Documented web pages automatically read when loaded.
Checked and I don't want that to happen, so I'm going to uncheck that not checked if I press tab twice.
Read alt Apply button to activate press spacebar Alt a There's an apply button.
We can also press alt A. We'll press space and then tab twice.
To OK re OK button to activate press spacebar Home Unmute Microsoft Edge Home Unmute Microsoft Edge Page Heading Level three Unmute Be Heard so as you heard.
I'm back on heading level three unmute Be heard and we're going to go back up to the top of Unmute.
Show Home unmute and I'm going to.
Down Arrow through here and you'll hear what this sounds like now.
Link Skip to Content Visited Link Graphic Unmute Visited Current Page Link Home Link News Link Episodes Link About Link on Mute Merchant Link Sign in heading level 1 Home heading level 3 Unmute be.
Heard as you can hear, it was a lot less verbose when navigating this page. For more content like this, check out Unmute Show.
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