It has been my experience that when you launch the program, it updates itself to the latest version. Hope this helps!
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Maria Campbell Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 12:35 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An Updated Text Tutorial on Using the Google Chrome Browser with JAWS or NVDA How does one update Google Chrome? lucky1i...@gmail.com "Preach the Gospel, and when necessary use words!" --St. Francis On 7/7/2017 12:22 PM, David Whitehead wrote: > Hello there; > First, are you certain your using the latest version of chrome? > Secondly, do you have the latest version of adobe flash player? > Thirdly, have you tried, call 866-800-1275 > > Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, > but what they conceal is vital. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] > On Behalf Of jimrawls > Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 12:00 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] An Updated Text Tutorial on Using the Google > Chrome Browser with JAWS or NVDA > > David, > I have read through the tutorial and it is wonderful. However, my game > day audio remains. I can't get any game to play using game day audio on chrome. > Any ideas on how to fix this? Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] > On Behalf Of David Moore > Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 3:17 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] An Updated Text Tutorial on Using the Google > Chrome Browser with JAWS or NVDA > > Hi all, > I did an Updated text tutorial on using the Google Chrome browser. It > is pasted right here in this email, so you can read it, and give me feedback. > On each line, I tell you what my computer says as I take you through > the Google Chrome menu, and I take you carefully through the settings web page. > This is a lot like the Options page in Firefox, but it is easier to > navigate. > I hope this really helps you get started with Chrome, because it works > so well for me. > Here is the tutorial right below! > Tutorial for Using the Google Chrome Browser By David Moore This > tutorial will be done with the latest update of Chrome. > I will also use JAWS 18 and NVDA 2017.2for this tutorial, because they > both work the same in Chrome. > Finally, I will use Windows 10 Creators Update latest public build. > I will assume that you have downloaded and installed Chrome. > There should be a shortcut on your desktop. > First, I will launch Chrome. We will not create a home page until we > get to the Chrome settings web page. > This is a lot like the Options page in Firefox, or the Options dialog in IE. > Pressing the Alt key, opens the one and only, Chrome menu, with many > choices that I will arrow down through. > The first very important step, is to press Windows+up arrow to > maximise the window. Chrome often opens with the window not maximise, > and you will get undesirable results. > I will press the Alt key. > The Chrome menu is open. > I will press insert+up arrow to hear the first option in this menu. > New Tab, CTRL+T. > You can press that command right from the web site you are on. > New Window, CTRL+N > You can press these commands right from your web page, instead of > coming here. > New incognito Window. > History sub menu. > I will press right arrow here to see what is in this sub menu! > History, CTRL+H > So, there is a key command for reading your history. > You can read a few sites you were on right here. > I will press left arrow to close this history sub menu. > Downloads, CTRL+J > There is the command for opening your downloads you have downloaded > with Chrome. > Next, the important Bookmarks sub menu. > I will press right arrow, to open this. > I hear, bookmark this page, CTRL+D > That command will bookmark the page you are reading. > Next down arrow, says show bookmarks bar, CTRL+Shift+B That command, > will show your bookmarks on your Chrome browser for all to see. I do > not want that. > Here is the important one. > manage bookmarks > The command is, CTRL+Shift+O > In here, you can organize your bookmarks into folders, see the > bookmarks you have imported from different browsers, and very > importantly, you can download, to your computer, an HTML file of all of your bookmarks in Chrome. > On your computer, you can press enter on this file, after it > downloads, and a page will show up in Chrome with a list of all > bookmarks you have saved in Chrome. This is an awesome way to download > all of your bookmarks right to your computer, so you can back them up. > That is all for manage bookmarks. > Next, I hear import bookmarks and settings. > press enter on this, and you can import all bookmarks and settings > from IE, and Firefox, right into Google Chrome, and they will be in > their corresponding folders. > Now, I hear all of my saved bookmarks as I continue to arrow down. > Very important! > Sometimes, when I open that bookmarks sub menu, I do not land on the > choices I mension here, but instead, I start hearing my saved > bookmarks. If this happens, I press up arrow a few times, and it gets me to these choices. > Keep in mind, that many of these choices, like bookmark manager, have > key commands, so you do not have to come to this bookmarks sub menu at > all. You only need to come here most of the time, to arrow through > your saved bookmarks, and enter on the desired one. > The next few are very self explanatory. > The next one I will mension, is the more tools submenu. > I will press right arrow on this. > I hear Save Page as, and the command, CTRL+S. > Next, Save to desktop. > This allows you to save the favorite of the page right to your > desktop. This is how you do this in Chrome, instead of doing this in the file menu in IE. > It is hidden under this more tools submenu. > Clear Browsing data, and there is the key command, CTRL+Shift+Delete key. > Extentions, In here, you can add extentions, delete extentions and so on. > These are the same as add ons, in IE. > They are called Extensions in Chrome. > The last two that I will mention, are settings, and the help sub menu. > Now, we will press enter on settings, and a web like page will open > where the virtual cursor will turn on with JAWS, and NVDA will be in Brows mode. > First, on this page, there is an edit field to search for a setting to > change. > You can simply press enter to get into forms mode with JAWS or focus > mode with NVDA, and sign into Chrome with your email and password > associated with your Google Account. > This is very accessible now; a year ago, it was not. > Now, you can press enter on sync. > There is a combo box here, and I chose to sync everything that I > bookmark and my history in Chrome to all devices. I can get on another > computer, and all of my bookmarks are on that second computer, for > example. That is very powerful. > You can import bookmarks and settings here, just like you could under > the Bookmarks sub menu. > Now, we have a series of headings, that you can just press H for > heading, to get to. > Now, under the appearance heading, You first have themes, which I did > nothing with. > Next, you can open the Chrome web store. You can get hundreds of > extentions, and more. > Show Home, Here is where you can see what you set your home page to. > Now, there are two radio buttons, and I chose the one to enter with a > custom web address. > Now, go to the search engin heading. > This is a heading. > There are headings on this settings page. > I chose to use Google search engin in the address bar. This is a combo box. > The next heading, is on start up. > Finally, here is where you set up your home page. > There are three radio buttons here. > I chose the third one, to open a selected page or selected pages. > Next, I was able to enter: > www.Google.Com. > That is my home page that will open each time I start Chrome. > Next, you get to the heading advanced settings. > You have to press enter on this, to open it up, because it is collapsed. > As soon as you press enter, you down arrow to: > Privacy and settings heading. > Each of these buttons, say clickable. > Here, press enter to check, or to uncheck. > When you press enter, you will hear JAWS go into forms mode and NVDA > go into focus mode, so just press enter again. So really, you press > enter twice to check, or enter twice to uncheck. > Next, there is: > Passwords and forms heading. > Press enter twice here on each clickable button to check or to uncheck. > Languages, I do nothing with that. > Downloads. > This is where you set where you want your downloads to go, and you can > set whether you want to be prompted each time you download something. > I definitely want the prompt. > I do nothing with the Printing or accessibility headings. > The System heading, you can turn on or off open proxy settings. > Lastly, there is the reset heading, with a button to enter on that > will reset Chrome back to its default settings. > That is it for settings. > Notice, we made a lot of changes under the advanced settings. You > cannot see these, unless you press enter to expand these. > Now, just press CTRL+F4 or CTRL+W to get out of this settings page, > and go back to Google Chrome. The settings page, opens in a new tab in > Chrome, that is why you can press CTRL+F4 or CTRL+W to get out of it. > Now, press the Alt key again. Up arrow once to get to the end of the > menu where we were with the settings. > You see exit, up arrow and you see the help sub menu, right under the > settings choice. > I press right arrow on this help sub menu, and you can enter on the > help center to get a lot of help using Chrome. > To open a web site, just press CTRL+L or Alt+D and type the URL. > Chrome for me, is so much quicker with web sites that involve > streamming TV and Watching movies, and so on. > For me, Chrome opens large news sites very quickly compared to IE. > Lastly, All JAWS and NVDA navigation key commands work in Chrome. For > example, you can press F7 to open a list of links with JAWS, and the > elements list with NVDA. All of that is the exact same. > This is the end of the tutorial. > David Moore > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
