Descriptions of Paid Webinar Archives

Outlook 2010, Three 1.5 Hour Webinars

• Cost: $29
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: Three lessons, 1.5 hours each
• Exam offered (optional): Yes
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 0.45

By the end of this workshop you will understand, be able to discuss, and/or perform the following tasks as they relate to Outlook 2010 from the keyboard with JAWS and MAGic:

Outlook 2010 Part One, Introduction

• Introduction to Outlook
• Create, send, and receive messages
• The Backstage view in Outlook
• Navigation in the ribbons
• Create and use folders
• Deleting messages
• Outlook preferences (autocorrect options, mail format, editor options, spelling options), and address book basics

Outlook 2010 Part Two

• Send and receive e-mail with attachments
• Use the Quick Access Toolbar to assign keystrokes to simplify both tasks
• Appointments
• Meeting requests
• Calendar navigation

Outlook 2010 Part Three

• Read complicated or difficult e-mails in the browser
• JAWS navigation quick keys for reading HTML-based e-mail
• Instant search feature to find e-mails that contain words or phrases
• Categories
• Flags

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Excel 2010, Three 1.5 Hour Webinars

• Cost: $29
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: Three lessons, 1.5 hours each
• Exam offered (optional): Yes
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 0.45

By the end of this workshop you will understand, be able to discuss, and/or perform the following tasks as they relate to Excel 2010 from the keyboard with JAWS and MAGic:

Excel 2010 Part One, Introduction

• Create, open, and save workbooks
• The Backstage view in Excel
• Auto Sum
• Comments
• Go To dialog box
• Navigation in a worksheet
• Ranges
• Editing text
• Formulas (basics)
• Row and column headers

Excel 2010 Part Two

• Create a chart
• Move a chart
• Change chart types
• Insert hyperlinks for navigation within worksheet or workbook
• Create monitored cells (JAWS users)
• JAWS-specific Excel features

Excel 2010 Part Three

• Creating and renaming worksheets
• Changing cell formatting options
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Sorting and filtering data
• Inserting and using functions

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Office 2010 Overview and Introduction

NOTE: This workshop assumes familiarity with using JAWS or MAGic in the Webinar training room. Before taking this workshop, participants should complete the free Webinar Training Room Orientation.

• Cost: now FREE
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: One hour

By the end of this workshop you will understand, be able to discuss, and/or perform the following tasks as they relate to Office 2010 from the keyboard with JAWS and MAGic:

• Overview of Office 2010
• Navigation techniques for the ribbon and task panes
• Explore the Backstage view, a replacement for the Office menu
• Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
• Differences between what is presented on the ribbon for Word, Excel, and Outlook messages

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Introduction to Creating Accessible HTML Forms

Are you interested in creating accessible HTML forms? If so, this 1.5-hour Webinar will get you started. This workshop assumes you are already comfortable with the basics of HTML and is an introduction to creating accessible HTML forms. The lessons are in HTML format, and the practice HTML pages are composed using a basic text editor such as Notepad.

Topics covered in this paid Webinar include:

• Fieldset and Legend
• Input element and type attribute (text, radio buttons, check boxes, etc.)
• Select and options tags
• Textarea tag for multi-line input
• The ID attribute
• Label tag and For attribute
• Buttons
• Accesskey attribute

• Cost: $19
• Level: Beginner to intermediate
• Length: One and one-half hours
• Exam offered (optional): Yes
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 0.15

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JAWS Training for Teachers and AT Trainers (Equivalent to Our Two-Day Workshop)

Are you an assistive technology (AT) teacher or a trainer? Do you need to be able to assist or help students who use JAWS? Are you a help desk support person who needs to support JAWS users in the field? If the answer to any of the questions above is "yes," this paid Webinar is for you.

• Cost: $49
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: Twelve one-hour sessions, see dates below
• Exams offered (optional): Yes
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 1.2

TIP:  Did you know that if you miss a Webinar, a link to the archive of the Webinar will be sent to you if you register? That way, you can make up the Webinar at a later date. Would you like to join a series of Webinars already in progress? You can register at any time, review the archives for any lessons you missed, and join a series of Webinars already in progress.

Lesson One, Introduction, Starting JAWS and Defining Hot Keys

Begin with a discussion of the workshop objectives and agenda. Learn to start JAWS from the desktop, start menu, and run dialog box. Set up a hot key to launch JAWS.

Lesson Two, JAWS Training Materials and FSReader

"How do I get started with JAWS?" The answer is there are three main JAWS training resources available to you and your students. Learn how to use FSReader, the free DAISY reader that is included with JAWS, to read and get the most out of our training materials.

Lesson Three, JAWS Startup Wizard and Changing Settings Temporarily

Use the JAWS Startup Wizard to adjust settings quickly. Have you ever wished you could slow down (or speed up) the voice rate of JAWS on a computer so you could understand it more easily? Many settings in JAWS can be adjusted temporarily, without having to go into different managers or configuration dialog boxes. Learn the quick and easy way to change settings without making the changes permanent.

Lesson Four, Braille and JAWS Utilities Menu Overview

Learn how to install a braille display and make changes to braille settings. Like many other JAWS settings, braille settings can be made permanently or on a temporary basis. Look at a couple of items in the JAWS Utilities menu that end-users may want to change.

Lesson Five, JAWS Help Menu, Help System, Screen Sensitive Help, Application Help, and More

Learn how to use the resources in the JAWS Help menu, including the JAWS Help system. JAWS has a wealth of help information built into it. Learn how and where to access the information you need quickly and easily.

Lesson Six, JAWS Program Group, Including Braille Viewer, and HJPad

Learn about the resources available in the JAWS Program Group. HJPad is a free word processor complete with a spell checker that ships with JAWS. It has several practice dialog boxes and tools that are useful for teaching Windows concepts, as well as physical and functional descriptions of many common Windows controls. Braille Viewer is great for interpreting what is on a refreshable braille display, whether a physical braille display is attached or not. Other items of discussion include exploring where user and shared settings are maintained, and other tools such as Internet License Manager authorization viewer, using PAC Mate desktop to allow a PAC Mate user to control a computer, settings packager to share user settings among students, and more.

Lesson Seven, Basic JAWS Screen Reading Keys and Cursors Used with JAWS

Reading the screen is done by pressing keys on the numeric keypad, or NUM PAD, sometimes in combination with other keys on the keyboard. Discussion includes using three primary cursors with JAWS: the PC cursor, the JAWS cursor, and the virtual cursor. There may be times when a JAWS user can only access something on the screen with a mouse by pointing and clicking. The JAWS cursor is the answer. On Web pages and in PDF documents, the virtual cursor is used for reading, but the PC cursor is used when filling in forms.

Lesson Eight, Cut, Copy, and Paste from the Keyboard and In Different Environments

Practice using Windows keyboard commands as well as JAWS commands used for manipulating text. Be able to copy and paste text from not only word processing programs, but from a virtual environment where no visible cursor exists, and in some cases, where no visible text exists.

Lesson Nine, JAWS Dictionary Manager

The JAWS Dictionary Manager is useful for pronouncing words or phrases that a speech synthesizer may not pronounce correctly. New in JAWS 10 is the ability to create rules applying to specific languages, synthesizers, or voices.

Lesson Ten, JAWS and HTML, including PlaceMarkers and Navigation Quick Keys

Learn about navigation quick keys, the list of links, the list of headings, and PlaceMarkers. General navigation in Internet Explorer is discussed.

Lesson Eleven, Tables and Forms with JAWS on the Web

Information is often entered using forms, and output is often presented in tabular format dynamically on the Web. Learn how to use the new JAWS 10 auto forms mode, and be able to interact with forms in Web pages or PDF documents. Learn JAWS table reading keystrokes, and learn how JAWS reads row and column headers and more.

Lesson Twelve, Custom Labels on the Web and Prompt Creator

JAWS allows you to assign custom text labels to almost any HTML element that you can move to by pressing the TAB key in Internet Explorer and Web-based documents. These elements include text links, graphic links, form fields, and buttons. You can also label images on Web pages. Learn to use this feature to customize the elements of any Web page to help you navigate the page, reduce verbosity, compensate for incomplete or poorly labeled elements, and similar functions. Prompt Creator is used to label form fields or other controls and can provide tutor messages in a non-HTML program environment.

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Outlook 2007, Three 1.5 Hour Webinars

NOTE: This workshop assumes familiarity with using JAWS or MAGic in the Webinar training room. Before taking this workshop, participants should complete the free Webinar Training Room Orientation.

• Cost: $29
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: Three lessons, 1.5 hours each
• Exam offered (optional)
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 0.45

By the end of this workshop you will understand, be able to discuss, and/or perform the following tasks as they relate to Outlook 2007 from the keyboard with JAWS and MAGic:

Outlook 2007 Part One, Introduction

• Introduction to Outlook
• Create, send, and receive messages
• Navigation in the main program (menu) vs. navigation in messages (ribbon)
• Create and use folders
• Deleting messages
• Outlook preferences (autocorrect options, mail format, editor options, spelling options), and address book basics

Outlook 2007 Part Two

• Send and receive e-mail with attachments
• Use the Quick Access Toolbar to assign keystrokes to simplify both tasks
• Appointments
• Meeting requests
• Calendar navigation

Outlook 2007 Part Three

• Read complicated or difficult e-mails in the browser
• JAWS navigation quick keys for reading HTML-based e-mail
• Instant search feature to find e-mails that contain words or phrases
• Categories
• Flags

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PowerPoint 2007, Three 1.5 Hour Webinars

NOTE: This workshop assumes familiarity with using JAWS or MAGic in the Webinar training room. Before taking this workshop, participants should complete the free Webinar Training Room Orientation.

• Cost: $29
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: Three lessons, 1.5 hours each
• Exam offered (optional)
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 0.45

By the end of this workshop you will understand, be able to discuss, and/or perform the following tasks as they relate to PowerPoint 2007 from the keyboard with JAWS and MAGic:

PowerPoint 2007 Part One, Introduction

• Introduction to PowerPoint
• Create, open, and save presentations
• Add new slides, delete or rearrange slides
• Move between object placeholders, different types of placeholders
• Add text to placeholders
• Add images to placeholders
• Add alternative text to images
• Add background color to a series of slides
• Add a sound to the presentation

PowerPoint 2007 Part Two

• Use custom animation effects to fly in bullet points
• Rearrange animation effects for optimal presentations
• Add a delay to sounds

PowerPoint 2007 Part Three

• Present the slide show
• Add speaker's notes to slides
• Outline view
• Thumbnail view
• Handouts for the audience using export to Microsoft Word
• Use JAWS to hear speaker's notes during presentation (Tips for JAWS users on how to present)

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Writing Scripts for Web Pages with JAWS and MAGic, Parts 1 & 2, Two One and One-Half Hour Webinars

• Cost: $19
• Level: Intermediate to advanced
• Length: Two lessons, one and one-half hours each
• Exam offered (optional)
• Continuing Education Units (CEU) awarded: 0.3

The JAWS and MAGic scripting language is designed to enhance the capabilities of JAWS or MAGic and allow for better accessibility and usability in otherwise inaccessible applications. This power can also be extended to enhance a user's experience when navigating Web sites.

In part one of this two part series we will first explore the alternatives to writing scripts for Web pages. Many advanced JAWS features exist that may eliminate the need for using scripting to make a Web site more accessible. We will then begin looking at some tools and techniques that can be used to create scripts that will help a user navigate a Web site using JAWS or MAGic. Some topics that will be covered include:

• The power of JAWS PlaceMarkers
• Using the Custom Labels feature to rename graphics, links, and form controls
• Advanced uses of keyboard navigation to Web page elements
• Using scripts to find text on a Web page
• And much more

In part two of this two part series we will further explore scripting tools and techniques to assist users in Web page navigation. Among other things, topics will include how to use scripts to locate specific HTML attributes and values. Participants will also learn to use other scripts and functions designed to make Web page navigation and the user experience more efficient. Learning to combine the power of the scripting language with good knowledge of the product capabilities will help in creating a good user experience.

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