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kestrellI've had the opportunity to learn a lot this summer, via webinars, free online classes, and one on one instruction from David Kingsbury himself, but the main lesson I have learned is that I need to keep reviewing and refreshing all that technical knowledge.
From relearning Jaws and Windows commands to my current project of refreshing my knowledge of website design and using the UNIX command line, I'm relearning a lot.
Seriously, how many hundreds, maybe a thousand or more, keyboard commands do blind computer users typically need to know? There's no shame in going back to the basics and recognizing all those useful commands you've forgotten. Sometimes you even remember whole new subjects you always meant to learn, and is there a better time for that than now?
Okay, I'm putting away the soapbox now.
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Please join the Main Menu Live team as we talk all about authoring in the digital age. We first welcome the Carroll Center’s David Kingsbury who has written two books all about the web and formatting documents in Word. Which browser are you using today and which one should you use? Learn more from David’s book When One Web Browser Is Not Enough: A Guide for Windows Screen Reader Users. We then turn to publishing and the art of producing your content. We talk with David about his book Format Your Word Documents with JAWS and NVDA: A Guide for Students and Professionals. We also ask David about his process of producing his books to ensure they meet the needs of his audience. In the second hour we speak with Michael Feir, the author of Personal Power; The iOS Edition. We talk about the publishing business from an accessibility perspective. Is it possible for a blind individual to produce a professional looking document? What tools and techniques are being used to accomplish this task if it is possible? Can one publish in multiple accessible formats?
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From relearning Jaws and Windows commands to my current project of refreshing my knowledge of website design and using the UNIX command line, I'm relearning a lot.
Seriously, how many hundreds, maybe a thousand or more, keyboard commands do blind computer users typically need to know? There's no shame in going back to the basics and recognizing all those useful commands you've forgotten. Sometimes you even remember whole new subjects you always meant to learn, and is there a better time for that than now?
Okay, I'm putting away the soapbox now.
Here's the info for listening to David through ACB Radio or joining the webinar:
Main Menu Live: 8pm ET, 5pm PT, 2pm HT
Please join the Main Menu Live team as we talk all about authoring in the digital age. We first welcome the Carroll Center’s David Kingsbury who has written two books all about the web and formatting documents in Word. Which browser are you using today and which one should you use? Learn more from David’s book When One Web Browser Is Not Enough: A Guide for Windows Screen Reader Users. We then turn to publishing and the art of producing your content. We talk with David about his book Format Your Word Documents with JAWS and NVDA: A Guide for Students and Professionals. We also ask David about his process of producing his books to ensure they meet the needs of his audience. In the second hour we speak with Michael Feir, the author of Personal Power; The iOS Edition. We talk about the publishing business from an accessibility perspective. Is it possible for a blind individual to produce a professional looking document? What tools and techniques are being used to accomplish this task if it is possible? Can one publish in multiple accessible formats?
Listen on ACB Radio Mainstream:
www.acbradio.org/mainstream
Join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84497802916
One tap mobile: +13126266799,,84497802916#
Phone: 312-626-6799
Webinar ID: 844 9780 2916
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Date: 2020-08-25 09:34 pm (UTC)The zillions of keyboard commands!
They blow me away!
Some of the ones I installed early I'm still missing -- BEX on Apple II had a great command: go to end of sentence. My fingers still want to control-T my way through the prose I'm not even writing.
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Date: 2020-08-25 10:22 pm (UTC)Today I came across a GitHub project where a couple of programmers were creating an Alexa skill called "Ask Jaws" and it would let you ask Alexa what the keyboard command was for specific actions, such as "Alexa, ask Jaws, how do I read to the end of a line?"
Sadly, it seems to have been abandoned.
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Date: 2020-08-25 10:42 pm (UTC)Yeah, those keyboards were great -- but they were also ADB (Apple Desktop Bus). Apple has made $1 million off me from proprietary cables alone.
Asking Alexa for a JAWS keyboard comb is so wonderfully surreal.
You've cleared whizzed past me on Github -- I'm still trying to find the "big picture overview"
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/what-is-github/
and
https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/sscc/pubs/GitBrief/GitBriefIntro.html