Web browser will automatically start your entry with “
http://www.
”, and you have to delete this text if
this is not what you want.
With “Options” and choosing “Settings”, you can change the browser settings, organized in three or four
categories.
The browser can be setup to start in your list of bookmarks, or on a selected web page. You can also turn
off loading pictures to save time and data traffic.
To ensure that the TALKS browser support is available, you should not turn off support for Java/ECMA
scripts.
2.8.3.2
Browsing the web with TALKS
To get you started with TALKS and the Web browser, we will search for an entry in the free online
encyclopedia “Wikipedia”.
a.
Start the browser
b.
If the list of bookmarks is not displayed, press
[Key 1]
(“Options”), and choose
“Bookmarks”.
c.
Type “wikipedia.com”; note that
http://www.
is automatically put at the start of your
entry.
d.
Press
[Key 1]
(“Go to”) to open
www.wikipedia.com
e.
After the web page has been loaded, you will hear the number of headings and links on
this page.
f.
To locate the text box for your search term, you can press
[8]
, which corresponds to “T”
on your phone keypad.
g.
Now, press
[Select]
to enter a search term; let’s use “The Beatles”
h.
Press
[Down]
, until you reach a button, then press
[Select]
to start searching Wikipedia.
i.
The new number of headings and links is read, after loading is complete.
j.
You can now read line by line, by pressing
[Down]
or
[Up]
, and you can spell the
current line with
[TALKS], [Long Up]
.
k.
Press
[4]
, corresponding to “H”, to browse through headings, until you reach a heading
named “Contents”.
l.
Read the table of contents line by line, and press
[Select]
to go to the corresponding text
on the same web page.
m.
You can press
[TALKS], [Down]
to read all text until the end of the current web page.
n.
Since you have pressed
[4]
to go to headings, you can use
[*]
and
[#]
to go to the
previous and next heading, respectively.
A complete list of commands available when reading a web page in the Web browser can be found in
chapter 5.
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