Tutorial Introduction

Tutorial Content

• Reading Letters & Words
• Reading Sentences & Paragraphs
• Navigating Tables
• Navigating Forms
• Understanding Frames
• Reformating Web Pages
• Reading Page Hyperlinks

Additional Resources

• Reading a PDF Document
• Internet Explorer Keystrokes

Reading Letters & Words

Commands for Letters

Using a screen-reader to read words is fairly easy and can be accomplished by focusing on the relationship of the numberpad keys and the movement of the virtual cursor. The table below identifies the numberpad key and the direction the virtual cursor moves with respect to the screen content.

Commands for Words

Reading words is similar to reading characters and letters. The only difference is that you hold the Insert key down while pressing the specific numberpad key. This will allow you to read the word.

Sample Passage

In the dream time, many ages ago, the cluster of stars which we now know as the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, were seven beautiful ice maidens. Their parents were a great rugged mountain whose dark head was hidden in the clouds, and an ice-cold stream that flowed from the snow-clad hills. The Seven Sisters wandered across the land, with their long hair flying behind them like storm clouds before the breeze. Their cheeks were flushed with the kiss of the sun, and in their eyes was hidden the soft, gray light of the dawn. So entrancing was their beauty, that all men loved them, but the maidens' affections were as cold as the stream which gave them birth, and they never turned aside in their wanderings to gladden the hearts of men.