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Moving to and Reading Subscribed Feeds in Internet Explorer

 

Moving to and Reading Subscribed Feeds in Internet Explorer

Let's say you have subscribed to one or more feeds on the Web. How do you find out if there are new articles or information? Once you have subscribed to a feed, a link to it is placed in the Favorites Center feeds tab for Internet Explorer 7. You should get in the habit of checking to see if the feeds you subscribe to have been updated, perhaps daily, or in some cases, more often. The new information is automatically sent to Internet Explorer, but you still have to look in the right place to view it. Many people check for new feed information several times per day, especially for news or weather feeds. To find out if any of the feeds you subscribe to have new information, do the following:

  1. Press CTRL+J to open the Internet Explorer Favorites Center and display your web feeds.
  2. Press UP or DOWN ARROW to move through the list. Feeds that have been updated are marked with "(New)" beside their name.
  3. If there are feeds in the feeds tab of the Favorites Center that you do not use, you can press the DELETE key to remove them.
  4. If no feeds have been updated, press ESC to close the Favorites Center and return focus to the Web page you are on at the time.
  5. Press ENTER on a feed that you want to read and the corresponding feed page opens. Use standard reading commands to read the page. Again, many feeds have new articles with headings that are also links to the full article. Use the navigation quick key H with JAWS to move from one announcement to the next.
  6. When you are finished reading the feeds page press ALT+LEFT ARROW to move back to the page where you were before going feeding.

Feeds that have been marked as read disappear after new ones are posted. To show all feeds again on an RSS feeds page, press ALT+L or use the list of links to find and activate the link "All." Links are also available to sort feed headlines by Date or Title. Additional settings can be customized by choosing the link "View feed properties." Check to see how often feeds are checked on your system. You may find they are only checked one time per day. You may wish to change this to check for updated feeds at shorter intervals, for example, every fifteen minutes or every hour.

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