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Hello, my name is Ken Spector and today I'll be giving you a brief glimpse of
what's involved in navigating the Canvas learning environment without the benefit
of sight.
To do this I'll be using JAWS for Windows
the screen reading program that uses text to speech technology in order to verbalize
the text that appears on the screen.
My objective today will be to find the Canvas link,
go there, login, find my courses,
within my courses locate Disability Resources and Services,
go to that page, find recent changes, within recent changes locate
Holly's resource page, go to Holly's resource page
find the content specific to Holly's resource page,
and log out once more from Canvas. The first step,
again, is to locate the link title Canvas.
There are many ways to do this but the fastest of which is to use the JAWS
find
dialogue. The JAWS find dialog allows the user to enter a word or string of text
and then leave the searching to JAWS. To launch the JAWS find a dialogue I will
now press CTRL+F
"Virtual find, JAWS find dialouge,
find what, colon, edit, combo, demo. To set the value use the arrow
keys or type the value
alt w." From here I can go ahead and type in the word I'm seeking, which is Canvas
and press
enter to launch the search query. "C-A-N
V-A-S Canvas, enter, visited link, Canvas." And JAWS has gone ahead and moved
the cursor to the link titled Canvas,
which I will now activate by pressing the space bar.
"Space, Canvas, visited link, login to Canvas, login to Canvas,
maricopa enterprise ID, left parenth 'MEID' right parenth, edit."
OK, so JAWS informs us
that we have loaded the page titled login to Canvas.
It clicked to indicate that we are in forms mode.
i.e.: we can enter text or information to a form field.
And it has informed us that we are in the region title
maricopa enterprise I D and that it is ready for us to type in text.
I'll go ahead and type in my MEID in this field
and press tab to move to the password field where will type my password
and press Enter to submit this form.
"K-E-N-L-P-7-4-8-8-9, KENLP
74,889, tab, region password, password edit
password edit, password, edit type in text: star star star star star star star star
star star star enter, submit query button, user dashboard,
my courses, page has four regions 5 edenton 22 links."
OK, so JAWS informs us that we have now loaded a web page titled my
dashboard.
My courses, that it has
a certain number headings, regions, and links. Within this page
we are looking for a particular section titled My Courses.
To find this I will once more press CTRL+F to launch the JAWS
find
dialogue. "Virtual find,
JAWS find dialogue, find, what, colon, edit, combo,
log, to set the value use the arrow keys or type the value,
alt plus w." In this dialog box I will go ahead and enterthe word 'My'
and press enter to launch the search query.
"M-Y, enter, My Courses"
JAWS has gone ahead and moved to My Courses.
If it had not found it on its first try, I could have used
the F3 key to move through each instance of my
on this web page. As it is, I will go ahead and use the down arrow
to move down through the list of courses displayed until I find the one I seek
which, once more, is the Disability
Resources and Services link. "Link customize, list of five items,
visited link, MC Disability Resources and Services enrolled as, colon, student."
And there it is. To activate this link I will press the space bar.
"Space, MC Disability Resources and Services, enrolled as, colon, student,
visited link,
MC Disability Resources and Services, customize link, entering application region,
page
at six regions five pennants and 35 licks
alright so has loaded the disability resources and services page and it has
informed us up the headings regions and links contained
there in within this page i'm looking for.
a particular area titled recent changes
recent changes is displayed as a heading
jaws has a feature which allows us to move from one heading to the next
quickly in easily by pressing the letter
H as in heading I will now begin to press the letter H until I get to the
heading am seeking
the one titled recent change resident atop recent changes heading level 3
from this point I will go ahead and use the town a role to cycle through the
list of recent changes
listener for items League MCC construction project
with a deadly cali's resource page link scholarship best
grants a deterrent ships slick more dot dot dot who is dead
those are the list recent changes to split and going to use the up arrow now
to move back
up through the list until I get to Holly's resource page
where I will use the spacebar to activate the link
lick more dot dot dot link scholarship best grants added terms ships
visited link Ali resource page space holly's resource page
visited lead polly's resource page Colin MC disability resources and services
holly's resource page Colin MC disability resources and services
okay so charts informs us that we have loaded the webpage
for Holly's resource page within disability resources and services
it is also made a small click to indicate that it has entered forms
field they will not be able to easily move through this page well it is in the
forms mode
so to exit forms mode I will press the PC cursor
or the place key with the number lock turned off
Virtual PC cursor it states Virtual PC cursor together with a slightly lower
pitch
click to indicate that he has exited the forms mode
I can now go ahead and look for the content
up this page the content is going to be displayed
in the main region I can move from region to region by using the semi-colon
I will now begin to press the semicolon and continue doing so
until you reach the mean region rapping to top main navigation navigation region
context navigation region complementary information
breadcrumbs navigation region made region
and there it is now I can use the down arrow to move through the main
region and read the content specific to Holly's resource page
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as you can hear it is reading of several
files which are displayed in stocks files or Word files
that will presumably contain resources that would be useful to students with
disabilities
these files can be opened in Microsoft Word and red
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in the normal manner for now I have found what I'm looking for
and now desire to log out from campus
I can quickly Cole took a lockout link
using the charts find dialogue which I will now launch by pressing Control
plus the letter of virtual find
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my to set a value use the arrow keys or type the value
outlets W within this dialogue in a press
were typed the word log and press enter to submit the search quelque lock
enter rapping to top
it says wraps to the top of the page and it made a small clicking noise to
indicate that has once more
entered forms mode to exit forms moved
I will press the plus on the number pad with the number lock turned our actual
PC cursor
it states Virtual PC cursor to indicate which cursors active
and made a slightly lower pitched clicking noise to indicate that the
forms mode has now been exited
I desire to verify that I am in fact on the log out like
to do so I will read the current line by pressing
with the number lock turned off 0 on the number pad
together with the heat on the number pad visited League lockout
it is in fact the log out playing console to activate this link I will
press the spacebar
space lockout visited lead leaving application region login to canvass
region maricopa enterprise IT left parent might be right
marinated type a text and Charles has informed us that we have returned to the
log into can't the screen
and the cursors once more located in the maricopa enterprise ID
region that it is also ready to type in text once again
so for now we have accomplished our objectives
%uh logging into campus going to my courses
locating a course looking for recent changes
selecting a recently changed item and viewing the content specific to that
item then barking out once more hall without the benefit to site