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2.3 GETTING TO WEBSITES AND READING WEBPAGES WITH WEBBIE

Most websites are designed so that the key information will be noticed at a glance. WebbIE has some great features which make navigating the internet easy even if you can’t see the screen.

You could read the whole page from top to bottom, but this takes time and you will probably be reading stuff that isn’t that interesting. You can save yourself time by using some of WebbIE’s shortcuts.

To go on to your chosen website, go into WebbIE, press ALT D and type the website address e.g. www.bbc.co.ukthen ENTER. WebbIE will start reading the webpage until you interrupt it by pressing an ARROW key. You can read by arrowing down line by line.

WebbIE numbers the links on a webpage. When you hear a link you would like to read, press ENTER.

Some people get irritated by hearing the word "Link" and the link number, so if you want to read just names of links, press CONTROL L then arrow down. If you know the link name that you want, keep pressing its first letter until you reach it and press ENTER to get to it.

To restore the links, press ESCAPE.

Often when you get to your chosen webpage you will hear the links repeated, but you can skip links and get to text by pressing CONTROL DOWN ARROW.

Just as books have headings, so do webpages. To go to headings, press F7.

To find particular words on a webpage, press CONTROL F. You will hear "enter text to find". Type the word you want and press ENTER. If it’s on the webpage, the cursor will be positioned on it. The word may appear more than once. If you don’t want the first place where the word is, press F3 (Function key3) and you will be taken to the next place.

You can move back a webpage by pressing ALT LEFT ARROW and forward by pressing ALT RIGHT ARROW.

Press TAB to toggle between being on a webpage or being at the Address Bar where you type in a web address you know and want to get to.

To close WebbIE, press ALT F4 (Function key4) or press the ALT key and ARROW UP until you hear "Exit". Press ENTER and you are back at the DESKTOP.

 

The Free Internet Cafe for the Blind & Visually Impaired, the first in the whole of Africa, which opens the World Wide Web, making The Gambia a leading light in Africa, with this technology by allowing free and total access to surf the net send and receive emails and for students to enhace their studies with the aid of this pioneering software. No more do they need to rely on a third party to read to them newspapers, magazines, books, letters and world wide information.