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Mar 01, 20252 min
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JAWS Tips: Virtualizing Windows

In this episode, I share a JAWS tip to grab text from tricky screens and provide feedback to developers. JAWS+Alt+W virtualizes the current window, pulling text into a virtual viewer for easy reading and copying.

While you can’t click or activate items, you can navigate and extract information. I break down how this works, when to use it, and why it’s an essential tool for smoother navigation.

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<h4>Chapters:</h4>
  • 0:08 – Getting Started
  • 0:21 – Virtualizing the Window
  • 1:23 – Navigating the Viewer
  • 1:37 – Wrap-Up
<h4>Tags:</h4>

JAWS, accessibility, app developers, virtualizing, navigation, user feedback, dialogs, interfaces

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Intro / Opening

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Virtualizing the Window

Hey there, it's Michael here, and welcome back to another Jaws tip. Today we're going to talk to you about a way you can make sharing feedb with app developers a heck of a lot easier and copying information you might have heard from Jaws but were like, what did that just say? Anyways, today I want to walk you through the process of virtualizing the current window. So what does this mean? This means that if you have a dialog box or a website or, well, probably not use it on website, but a screen that might not be the most accessible and you'd like to get information out of that screen to either share with an app developer or to copy data from, then you can use this handy little keystroke. To do that, use the JAWS key that's either insert or caps lock plus the alt key plus the letter W. This will put the text of the current window you have in focus into a virtual viewer, which allows you the ability to select and copy text from this dialog or simply use your arrow keys to navigate and read it. Note that you can't click or activate items in the window when in a virtual window environment such as this. Again, if you need to virtualize your window and get access to what the window actually says in a lot of cases, use Jaws key plus alt w and then escape to dismiss that. Hope you got some value in today's content. Check out Unmute show for more like this and have a beautiful day.

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