JAWS will interpret web pages in the usual way and all the navigation keys are available. However, there are some additional tools you may like to take advantage of, described elsewhere in this document, including:
Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave or Microsoft Edge Chromium browsers are supported for use with Leasey.
You will notice that, if sounds are enabled, a tone will play when a new page is loaded and a "backwards" sound can be heard when you move back to a previous page.
Pressing full-stop (or period) by itself will move to the next link irrespective of its type, whether it has been visited or unvisited.
Pressing Comma by itself will move to the previous link irrespective of its type, whether it has been visited or unvisited.
A number of other utilities exist which require special explanation.
Using Microsoft Internet Explorer, locating sites you had previously stored as Favourites was an easy process. All such shortcuts used to be placed in a special folder for the purpose, which could be located from the Windows "Start Menu", or indeed a Shortcut could be placed on the Windows Desktop. Activating such a shortcut would take you into a list of all your Favourites which if necessary you could divide into separate sub-folders so as to group them into categories.
Unfortunately, those days are gone. If you store a site as a Favourite in a modern browser, it is accommodated within a specially constructed database which you have to work through inside the browser. Leasey takes away this frustration and provides you wit a method of storing shortcuts to Favourites either within your Favourites folder you may have previously used, or indeed any folder of your choosing.
Prior to reading through this option, we suggest you review the section of this documentation on the subject of Leasey Cuts, because the creation of Leasey Cuts is far easier than what is described here. However, old habits die hard, and it could be that you would still prefer to use the old method of working with Favourites.
Before you begin, you must instruct Leasey as to which folder contains your Favourites. So, either open up the Favourites folder you previously used, or alternatively, browse to a new one. In most cases, what you are about to do is a one time process unless you specifically want to store Favourites in a new folder at a later time. You can also store favourites in subsequent folders if you wish, which will be described below, however this is an optional step.
Now, press Alt+L. The location is stored permanently unless you change it.
Press Alt+A. You will be asked to name the item to be stored as a Favourite. The name of the previously focused page is already displayed in the Edit Field. You can leave it intact, edit it or Type in a new name and press Enter.
There is nothing further to do. Just browse to the folder in File Explorer, or by locating your Favourites folder, and your newly created Favourite will be there waiting for you.
It could be that you wish to save Favourites in additional folders. Let's assume for example that you have a folder into which you wish to place web site favourites you visit for stores. You might have a separate folder for music related sites and so on.
If this is the case, please do the following.
First, browse to the new folder using File Explorer into which favourites could potentially be saved. Open it up by pressing Enter so you are inside the folder.
Press Alt+L. If you did this using the first incarnation of Leasey version 5, we suggest you go through this process again as Leasey needs to know more information about the folder.
Repeat as necessary until all your folders are set.
Now, browse to the site into which the favourite should be stored in one of your folders.
Press Alt+W. This now brings into view a list of all the folders you have set.
Use the Up and Down Arrow keys until you reach the folder you wish to use, then press Enter to move to the next stage.
You should now be on familiar ground. The name of the previously focused page is already displayed in the Edit Field. You can leave it intact, edit it or Type in a new name and press Enter. If you open up that new folder now, you should see the shortcut in there.
Points to note. First, any favourites you save from this point forward will be placed in the newly designated folder. If you wish to go back to one of your original folders, you should press Alt+W, and set it as described earlier.
Secondly, if you would like to delete one of the folders from the list, this can be done by pressing Alt+W, finding the folder name, and pressing the Leasey Key followed by Delete. This does not in any way remove the folder from the computer. This would not be good practice. All Leasey is doing is removing the linking mechanism between Leasey and the folder itself.
You may know that as you are browsing web pages, you can open the focused web page in a new Tab. For example, when focused on a Link, you can open it in a new Tab by pressing Control+Enter. JAWS confirms that a new Tab has been created. There are a number of ways by which you can navigate through the Tabbed pages. The easiest way would be to press Control+Tab or Control+Page Down to move forward through Tabs, and press Shift+Control+Tab or Control+Page Up to move in the reverse direction. You can also press Control+1 through to Control+8, using the numbers above the letter keys. This will automatically set focus to any one of the first eight Tabs in the order in which they were created.
Within File Explorer, Alt+L stores the current folder for Favourites.
From within a web page, Alt+A will allow you to create a Favourite.
Move to the next link whether it has been visited or unvisited, press full-stop or period by itself.
Move to the previous link whether it has been visited or unvisited, press comma by itself.
Within Microsoft Edge, to enable or disable additional spoken messages, press Control+Shift+A. JAWS versions earlier than V2022.
To relocate a previous position on a web page after returning to a previous page, press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+R.
To enable or disable this automatically, press Alt+Windows+R.
To hear the number of the Tab which is open, press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+N.
To route the JAWS Cursor to the Virtual PC Cursor and Left Click press Leasey Key then Alt+K.
To move to the recent message in CoPilot, Leasey Key then Control+M.
To activate a new topic in CoPilot, Leasey Key then Control+N.
To upload a new image in CoPilot, Leasey Key then Control+I.