Freedom Scientific a Vispero brand an introduction to windows 11 and JAWS all right thanks rachel
i am going to start out by talking a little bit about the desktop now from a JAWS perspective here
there are a lot of things that are going to be the same so you're going to navigate the
desktop the way you always have and for those of you who are able to see the screen here
my windows 11 is going to look different than what yours will because
i am actually running windows 11 in a virtual machine so i just wanted to make you aware of
why mine looks different and just to let you know that yours won't look like that
so i'm here on the desktop now you can actually go to the desktop in a couple different ways which if
you are a windows 10 user you're already probably familiar with pressing windows m or windows d
so i'm going to demonstrate that i'm going to go over here just home manual to the jaws window and
i'll press windows d windows d folder view list view not selected recycle bin now a couple of
things here if you press windows m that minimizes all of your apps and takes you to the desktop
if you press windows d you go to the desktop but if you press it again windows d just home
manual it takes you back to the app that you were previously in and that is not something that's new
that's just something i wanted to point out here but let's go back to the desktop with windows d
windows d folder view list view not selected recycle bin one so you navigate the desktop the
way that you always have with your arrow keys i can press down arrow key bash four of eight
download visual studio code five of eight or i can press up arrow bash forward so i'm going to press
the tab key now and we're going to explore this area and you're going to hear some things that are
different and rachel's going to be talking about the task bar area later on so she'll be covering
some of the differences that you'll see and how you can customize those but right now i just want
to tab through this area and show you what we have taskbar taskbar start button object so it
said task bar and the first thing we have here is the start button that is for your start menu
so i'll tab again search button object so here we have a search button and it says not checked
we could press the space bar on these to activate them just like you are used to doing in windows 10
task view button object we have task view widgets but not checked and this is a new
feature we're not going to be discussing this one today but we have widgets um and then if we
tab again chat button there's a chat feature and rachel will demonstrate this later on but you can
determine whether or not you want those to appear here in the taskbar area but i can press tab
file explorer button so there's a button for your file explorer
but you can still use all the hotkeys that you're used to as well notification chevron button and
then we have this overflow area which again rachel will be discussing here in just a bit
folder view list view bash four of eight and we're back to the desktop where we have all the icons so
from a jaws perspective here you're just gonna use the same keyboard command you're used to
you can use first letter navigation j JAWS 2022 three of eight and you can navigate right to
a specific icon or specific uh application shortcut here on your desktop now let's move on
to the start menu there are some differences a few that i want to point out here with the start menu
in windows 11. this and this this is a visual thing the start menu is going to be in the
center of the screen by default you can move it to the right or left but by default it's going to
be in the center and that is not going to affect where it's located won't affect how you navigate
with JAWS so it's really just a matter of personal preference and for us jaws users that may not make
a difference at all so also with the start menu from a visual layout it has changed as well it has
a simpler layout you have rows of icons and there are some changes that i'm going to show you though
but you access it the same way you can either press tab and move to the start button and press
the space bar or you can press the windows key which i'm going to press
now now one other thing i want to point out too is that previously in windows 10 when you went to the
start menu and you had the search area that came up a lot of times you would hear jaws say cortana
cortana is no longer by default available when you go to the start menu here so you're not going to
hear that so i'm going to press the windows key search box edit all right so i press windows key
and we have the search box which is where we could type in the name of a file or some text that
is part of a file name if you're looking for a specific file and you don't remember the whole
name you know you can type that in here and you're just going to press down arrow like
you normally would to navigate those results now i'm going to press the tab key if we don't
want to use the search if you just want to you know go into the start menu and look at your
apps and things like that you can just press the windows key and then tab here pinned recommended
pins list box microsoft edge one of 13. all right so we have recommended apps here now another
difference between windows 10 and windows 11 windows previously had a feature called timeline
which would show you some apps and activities you know things that you were working in now this is
found and recommended it shows you some recent documents it shows you some apps that you've
recently you know worked in so that you can use your up and down arrows and navigate through those
and easily get to for example if it was a document open a document so i'll press down arrow here
calculator 7 of 13 tips 13 of 13. now here we're actually it said recommended but we're actually
in the pinned apps area now i'll press tab pinned recommended recommended list box and here we have
an area where we have apps pinned you can choose which apps that you want at the top here and
if that's not something that you know you use very often you can just tab right past that but if we
want to navigate that area we can use our up and down arrow keys so i'll press down arrow pins list
box calculator 7 of 13 tips 13 of 13. you can use your right and left arrow keys so i'll hit left
arrow movies and tv 12 of 13 and you can hear it say 12 of 13. so that's your pinned area now if i
press tab again all apps button we have an all apps button so if i want to see a list of all
apps i can press the space bar here space search box edit and i'm back to the search box i can tab
collapse back button all apps button so here we have an all apps button and you can go there to
see a list of all your apps i'll keep pressing tab recommended list box zoom recently added one of
all right so this is an area called recommended now previously in windows we had what was called
windows timeline and that showed you a list of recent activities or recent apps that you were in
now in windows 11 we have something called recommended and this is what shows you
your recently opened apps or you recently used apps and also documents and so here i'm gonna
have jaws repeat what it said when we landed on that area zoom recently added one of four
so it said zoom recently added one of four so that means i installed zoom recently and that's one of
four items if i down arrow uninstall fs reader 3.0 recently added three of four so we can just
navigate this and it's it's in a grid so you can press left and right arrow if i press left arrow
jaws 2022 recently added two of four it goes to the the second item in this list so you can use
your down arrow it depends on how you would like to navigate this but if you want to go one at
a time you can use your right and left arrows to go forward and backward so that's the recommended
area now press tab list box user account for user one of two here is another area this is something
that is also new in windows 11 you have two things here you have your user account which is where you
can go to see you know information about your account with a microsoft account or with windows
and you can press the right arrow here power two of two and this is the power button so
if you wanted to go in and shut down or you wanted to go in and change some settings there
you could press enter here and go to that information so i'll press tab search box edit
and we're back to the search box so that is just a few differences there in the start menu
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