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Blinded Veterans Association
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Access Key Announcement
Access Key Announcement
JAWS can announce access keys as you navigate through menus or dialogs or both. Use access keys to move directly to a control in a dialog box or an item in a menu. For example, with Speak All Access keys turned on, press ALT to move to the JAWS menu bar. Press DOWN ARROW to open the Options menu and select Basics. JAWS announces the name of the selected command and then says "B." B is the access key for the menu item called Basics. The next time that you go to the Options menu, you know that you can press B to quickly activate that menu item. As you navigate through the menus, make note of the access keys, so next time you use the menu, you will not have to use the arrow keys to move through each menu item. Instead, you can press the access key to automatically activate that menu item.
You can specify which access keys you want to hear in the Basics dialog, activated from the Options menu. You can turn off access key announcement, you can have JAWS Speak All access keys, Speak menu access keys only, or Speak dialog access keys only.
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