Custom JAWS Preferences and Settings* – 1 of 6, Table of Contents
Author’s Note: These lessons are certified accurate with JAWS 2022, 2023, and the current shipping version of JAWS 2024. For more details see Footnote 1 listed for each lesson. Additionally, MP3 files and transcripts are now available for each of the five lessons.
Hello and welcome! I am sharing with you some of the personal settings I use for testing web pages and documentation and reading with the JAWS screen reader. This includes changes in the JAWS Startup Wizard and Settings Center both in general as well as for web page reading and testing documents for accessibility.
These are the settings* used by Dan Clark of dSurf. Please make your own determination as to whether changing some or any of these settings may be of use to you.
There are currently five short lessons available.
- Using the JAWS Startup Wizard [05:59]
- Disable the Spelling Buzzer Sound and Announcement of Misspelled Words while Navigating or Typing [02:41]
- Disable Speak Character Phonetically After Pausing [02:05]
- List Box Announce Position and Count [02:46]
- HTML and Web Settings for Testing Web Pages and Documents with JAWS [06:36]