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We're going to talk about quick settings, which is a little
different than settings center.
And I'll tell you why setting center, which I have come to find out recently,
doesn't contain 100% of our settings.
There are some application specific settings that you're only
going to find in quick settings.
So I have my focus on word again, and I'm going to use insert V
Victor to open up quick settings.
Quick settings, dialogue, search box, edit control, plus, and as you just
heard, focus is in the search box here.
And I like to use these search boxes because, um, I don't know
about you all, but I, I have trouble remembering, uh, all of the different
settings that are available available.
There are, there are way too many.
Um, so we can search here for a word.
I'm going to go ahead and.
Search for the word punctuation and see what comes up.
So if I down arrow to put focus on that result, and then I press enter.
What I've done is I've moved myself out of the search and down into the tree
view and focus has been put at the top of the punctuation settings section.
And I'm arrowing down through these options.
Okay.
So we're getting to the, the critical piece here about quick settings that
makes it different from setting center.
So yes, there are a few settings in quick settings that are application
specific that you're only going to find in quick settings.
So make sure you check there.
If you're looking for something.
Application specific, but here's the other bit is that within quick
settings, you have an option when you're in the tree view here,
your arrow going up and down.
Zero spelling options, open like one alphanumeric, text readers, word,
zero numbers, options, open items, speak single digits, threshold,
five or more digits still restore on focus change one of two numbers
options, speak single digits.
If number contains dashes checked.
Okay.
So when you, I was end to arrow going down through this list, you heard
it as I go up again, speak single digits, threshold five or more digits.
And it says restore on focus, change within quick settings.
In this tree view, you're able to open up the applications I have
a few different options there.
The default is to save the setting for good, but you can actually change this
so that you can make modifications.
That either allow you to save those settings just until the focus changes.
So for example, I didn't change anything, but say I did and I
was in word, and then I'm done working on this word document
and I go back to what I'm doing.
I changed focus.
And those changes are gone.
They no longer stay with that.
They no longer stay with your screen reader.
You're able to just change focus, and you automatically
don't have those settings.
And you might be asking yourself, what is the use case
and where might I use these?
And if you have an example, please hold on to it.
Cause I'd really like to hear how you use it.
I'm going to talk a little bit more about how I use it here.
When we talk about changing settings on the fly.
So now I'm going to open up Edge Chromium.
Here we are.
And again, I'm going to open up quick settings.
And I'm going to type in progress.
I want to make sure that jaws is set to read me the progress bar.
Whenever I'm downloading something.
I don't want it to be silent because that is an option.
One search results list box progress bar is spoken and
it looks like it is spoken.
I'm going to press enter.
And what that does again, is jumped me from the search
results down to the tree view.
The progress bars are set to spoken.
If I want to change this, I'll hit space bar.
I want to leave him on spoken.
And at this point I can tab through the additional options in the dialogue,
this option controls and whether or not jaws announces progress bar updates.
When it set the spoken, JAWS will periodically read the
percentages and installations.
All right.
And again, I'll escape.
Now.
If I did make a change and I wanted it to save, I could press
escape and I would be prompted.
Yes or no.
Do I want to save the changes that I made?
So that is a little bit about quick settings versus setting center,
which allows you to set something for just the current session and
also, it gives you some additional settings above and beyond.
What's in the default group settings.
A lot of people like to change your settings on the fly.
And I do this as well, and that's just, you're in the middle of doing something.
And the first example I want to give is an example where I changed settings.
That only last while that window is in focus.
And that is when sometimes I do a say all.
You can do a, say all with JAWS in like a word document or on a
webpage with insert down arrow and it'll read everything there
is to be read on that screen.
But what you can do is while it's reading, you can press page up to
increase the speed temporarily or page down to decrease the speed temporarily.
And so I have to read a lot in a given day and if I'm reading
something depending on it's important and I may speak.
Pretty darn fast if I need to get through it.
And then at that point, I think of it more like a skim, of course I could use
a proper skim reading tool, but at that point I'm skimming over the document.
And then when I leave that session, when I leave that webpage say someone
sent me a, a blog article to read, I can read that really quickly.
I can close out my web browser.
And then jaws is back at its normal speed.
So I've temporarily changed the speech rate and that goes.
The very same, if you would like to read a long document that has,
um, A lot of punctuation and you want to change it temporarily.
You could use quick settings to change the way that jaws reads from
punctuation, just for that session.
But for these settings that I'm going to talk about now on the
flight, these are permanent keyboard commands that I'd like to go over.
I do frequently change my speech rate depending on what I'm reading, depending
on whether or not I'm demanding.
For a webinar and the way I do that, which I'm sure many of you are familiar
with is by holding down control windows.
The three, the three keys down in the left-hand corner of a typical
quarter keyboard, and then page up to increase the speed to go faster
and then page down to go slower.
And again, that's a permanent change.
So I'm, I'm changing a default setting and every time I switch windows or in
the jaws session and start a new one, I'm still going to have that same speed.
So that is how I typically.
Change my speech rate on the fly, no matter what I'm doing, I usually make
a permanent change unless I'm wanting to read something really quickly
and then I'll make that temporary change that I mentioned earlier.
Another permanent change that is nice is that you can use shift jaws key
to, to change the punctuation level.
So this can be set to most all, some or none.
And this again is a default chain.
So you're changing this permanently.
It's not just for the current session and you can use shift
And you're able to toggle and I like this again, it
depends on what I'm reading.
If I'm reading something with a lot of parentheses and brackets
and, um, business like that, I find it's just a little easier sometimes
to turn it to a lower level of punctuation, because I don't want to
hear that extemporaneous information.
Extraneous information.
And then another setting I changed quite often on the fly is my voice profile.
And I do this for a few different reasons.
If you're ever using tandem, you may need to change your voice
profile because if you're a being with someone in jaws, you must
be using the same synthesizer.
And then also we'd like to do our demos relatively recently in the same voice.
And so I am usually an Ava Ava premium user, and I'm kind of switching back
to using eloquence for my demos.
So when I do that, I use JAWS key control S.
Again, that's JAWS key control S and that brings up voice profiles box.
And you can quickly choose.
If you have a few different setup, you can choose between
the different voices you like to use depending on the situation.
So we've talked about how to temporarily and permanently changed speech rate, how
to adjust your punctuation settings, how to change your voice profile on the fly.
And there's a there's one more thing I wanted to mention, which is typing echo.
And again, this can be changed temporarily if you're in that
quick settings dialogue, but depending on where you are, you
may or may not want your typing echo set two different things.
So for example, when I'm in a word document, I may only want words echoed.
So this is where I type a word.
And I hit space bar.
And you can determine as a user, what you prefer, do
you want every letter echoed?
Do you want the word echoed, um, after you hit space, would you
like neither or would you like both and so insert or JAWS key plus two
on the number row you can toggle between these different options.
And it says words, both characters and words.
None and characters.
And so a lot of people have really strong preferences about how
they like their typing echo and what they're comfortable with.
I know people who prefer everything echoed while they're
actually editing a document.
I know a lot of people will still prefer nothing echoed and then people
who have different preferences.
For example, if they're on the internet versus when they're editing a document.
So there are quite a few settings that you can change on the fly
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