
To move to the address bar, just press ALT+D.Įither way, as you begin typing, an autocomplete list may appear. If you use Chrome or Firefox as your browser, Google is the default search engine so you can also perform searches right from the address bar. TIP: Mouse users can also click inside edit boxes and forms mode comes on automatically. If for some reason forms mode does not come on automatically on your computer, you can also press ENTER to go into forms mode, or you can press INSERT+F5 to open the JAWS Select a Form Field dialog box. Forms mode comes on automatically when you go to a web page which has the focus set to a blinking cursor in an edit box. When you first go to the Google web site there is a blinking cursor in the search edit box near the middle of the page. GoogleĮXERCISE: Use the link below to go to the Google web site and follow along with the instructions. As a result, you may find that if either site changes, your experience with JAWS may be different than what is described here. Web pages are often dynamic and can change at any time.

In this section, we briefly look at Google and Bing. Therefore, it may actually be beneficial to use more than one search engine on a regular basis.

In fact, they are often different due to the way each search engine behaves. Keep in mind that the results you get from one search engine may not match the results you get from another search engine. There are several types of search engines and searches may cover titles of documents, URL's, headers, or full text. Search engines on the World Wide Web are remotely accessible programs that let you do keyword searches for information on the Internet. Using Search Engines to Find Information on the Web Search Engines
