Name of W/S: 
Jaws and the Internet

Workshop Leader: 
Radim Charvat

Workshop Leader Background:
Currently, I am a Ph.D student at Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). With regard to my experience with assistive technology for the blind, I, inter alia,  participated in two International Computer Camps in 1996 (Austria) and 1998 (France). In 2002, I tought two workshops during the ICC held in Loughborough (Great Britain).

Country: 
the Czech Republic

E-mail: 
radim.charvat@tiscali.cz

Co-tutor: 
Svatoslav Ondra

Description:
Main purpose of this workshop Is to tell the students what Internet basicaly is, introduce them the structure and various elements of a web-page  (such as, links, check boxes, edit fields, tables, frames etc.) and to show them how to efficiently browse web-pages with Internet Explorer with the assistance of screen-reader called Jaws for Windows. Participants will learn useful hotkeys both of Internet Explorer and Jaws for Windows.

Aims:
After completion of this workshop, the students should know how to easily navigate web-pages which should help them to get better in using Internet in their everyday life.

Students Pre-requisites:
There are no special pre-requisites for participants of this workshop. However, the students should have general (at least minimum) experience with using Jaws.

Hardware:
- appropriate count of computers connected to the Internet
- braille display to each computer

Software:
Operation system: Windows 98 or XP (English)
Internet Browser: Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher (English)
Screen-reader: Jaws for Windows version 5.1