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RSS Feeds on the Web
Feeds on the Web allow you to automatically receive updated information from your favorite Web sites. Feeds are provided by more and more Web sites all the time. Basically, the process involves you subscribing to the feed, which usually is free, and then your feed reader (Internet Explorer or other feed reader) shows if there is any updated content. Here is what to look for and how it works with Internet Explorer 7.
Internet Explorer 7 checks every Web page you visit for feeds. If a feed is available, the graphic button for feeds on the Internet Explorer toolbar changes from gray to orange. JAWS verbally announces feeds on Web pages you visit, beginning with version 8.0 and later. You may have heard JAWS announce "RSS Feeds" on some pages you visit and may have wondered what that means. Finally, you can also set up Internet Explorer to play a sound when it notices a feed for a page. Most RSS Feeds require you to subscribe to them.
Feeds on the Web allow you to automatically receive updated information from your favorite Web sites. Feeds are provided by more and more Web sites all the time. Basically, the process involves you subscribing to the feed, which usually is free, and then your feed reader (Internet Explorer® or other feed reader) shows if there is any updated content. Here is what to look for and how it works with Internet Explorer 7.
Internet Explorer 7 checks every Web page you visit for feeds. If a feed is available, the graphic button for feeds on the Internet Explorer toolbar changes from gray to orange. JAWS® screen reading software verbally announces feeds on Web pages you visit, beginning with version 8.0 and later. You may have heard JAWS announce "RSS Feeds" on some pages you visit and may have wondered what that means. Finally, you can also set up Internet Explorer to play a sound when it notices a feed for a page.
If you know there is an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or other type of feed on a page, press the Internet Explorer keystroke ALT+J to move to the Feeds button on the Internet Explorer toolbar. Press ENTER on the type of feed and that will open the feed page for you to read. At that point, you can read with standard JAWS commands. However, most feed pages use headings, so browsing the new items on the feed page by using the navigation quick key H for JAWS works very well. You can also use the JAWS list of links to navigate. If you want to subscribe to updates to a new feed page, choose the link "Plus Button Subscribe to this feed" or "subscribe to this feed," depending on how the page is set up. Once you have subscribed, this link usually does not appear any longer.
After you are finished reading the feeds page press ALT+LEFT ARROW to move back to the page where you initially found the notice of the feed.
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