Do you know about working with object navigation?  The JAWS touch cursor is the rough equivalent of object navigation. I almost never use JAWS these days and I don't have Windows 10 but if you learn about object navigation, it will likely allow you to do what you want.  Other list members who know more about working with apps may have other, better suggestions but whatever the case, learning about object navigation is very worth while and it allows me to work with interfaces I couldn't work with otherwise.

Hi Jessica,

I use the touch cursor in JAWS to navigate the News App. This works very well. When you open the News App with JAWS 17 or 18, the touch cursor will come on automatically, and you can start pressing the right and left arrow keys to go through the different News articles. When you hear a title of a news article, press enter, then you can press right arrow to read the different hunks of the article. The entire article will not read; you pres the right arrow, listen to part of it, then press right arrow to hear more until you are done. If you want to use all of your reading commands to read word by word, for example, you have to enter text mode. To do this, press insert+enter. You will hear a sound, and then you can read that section of the article with up and arrow, and so on. When you are ready to go back to the touch cursor, just press escape, and then you can right arrow to the next hunk. You will know when you come to the end of that article, and then you just keep pressing the right arrow to get to the next article with the touch cursor turned on. To set up your news so you will get the articles that you are interested in to come up, turn off the touch cursor, and tab to a list of the different kinds of news that you can select from. Top headlines is already chosen. You can choose from sports news, and many other types of news. From then on, those articles of news will be there as you press the right arrow with the touch cursor turned on. Let us know if you have anymore questions after you try this. Let us know how it goes.

David Moore

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From: Jessica D
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 1:56 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] best way to read news with the app in Windows 10

 

Hi,

I would like to know how to read news using the news app in Windows 10.

NVDA and narrator won’t work for this.

Can anyonr help?

Thanks,

Jessica

 

 

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