Jump from heading to heading on a web page

Step by step

1. Turn on the screen reader. Press Ctrl + Alt + Enter: hold down Ctrl and Alt, then press Enter. You hear "Screen reader on". (On a real PC the shortcut is Ctrl + the Windows logo key + Enter.)
2. Open Start with the keyboard. Press Ctrl + Esc: the Start menu opens and the reader reads the search box, where you can type straight away. (A real PC also has a Windows logo key for this.)
3. Type "browser". Type the word browser: the reader says each letter, and Browser becomes the first result.
4. Press Enter. Press Enter: the Browser opens, and the reader reads its window.
5. Go to the encyclopedia. The address bar has the keyboard (the reader said "edit"). Type en.wikipedia.org and press Enter.
6. Leave the boxes where you type: Tab. Press Tab, and again until the reader says "button" or "link" instead of "edit": in a box where you type (the address bar, the page's search box), H would just type the letter H.
7. Press H to jump to a heading. Press H: the reader jumps to the first title of the page and says "heading". Press H again for the next one.
8. Back to the previous heading. Hold Shift and press H: the reader goes back to the title before.
9. Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Browser" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.
10. Turn the screen reader off. Press Ctrl + Alt + Enter again. You hear "Screen reader off".

These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.

More lessons in Screen reader

• Turn on the screen reader
• The on/off keyboard shortcut
• Move with Tab and Shift + Tab
• Open an app without the mouse
• Read a whole window, then stop
• Make it speak slower or faster