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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jan 29, 2015 11:57AM


I always forget that one!



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> On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> In JAWS you can also hit the level number of the heading to get to it.
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> Susie Stanzel
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> Angela:
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> Not as far as I know...this is one of the misconceptions about how we move through content. We only Tab through links and form controls and use regular reading commands for other elements.
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> If you are using JAWS you can use H to move to the next heading and Shift + H to move to the previous heading or use JawsKey F6 to get a list of headings. NVDA should have similar keyboard commands.
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> You might be able to "Tab" through heading that are also links, but it would be the "links" you are tabbing to...the fact that it is a heading is incidental.
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> Cheers, Karen
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>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> Can anyone tell me please, if there is a way to tab between headings on a web page? I'm not finding anything in my Google searches about this.
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