Various Searching Methods on a Web Page

There are times when you know information is somewhere on the web page you are reading, but you do not want to read the entire page to find it.

JAWS Find

Press F3 or Ctrl+Insert+F to open the JAWS Find dialog.

Type the word or phrase you want to find and press Enter.

If JAWS finds the text, your Virtual Cursor will be moved to that location on the page.

Press Insert+F3 to find the next occurrence.

Press Insert+Shift+F3 to find the previous occurrence.

Press Ctrl+Home before opening the Find dialog if you want to start your search from the beginning of the page.

Practice

Without leaving this lesson, try searching for some of the following words:

strawberry

orange

transportation

attachments

keyboard

pineapple

Browser Find

Press Ctrl+F to use the browser's Find command.

Type the word or phrase and press Enter.

Remember that these commands search only the page you already have open. They do not search the entire Internet.

End of this lesson.