Navigate to Your Courses with JAWS
Access the courses link
When you log into Blackboard for the first time, you will find a link called Courses in the Main Navigation Region/Landmark. To access this link in JAWS:
Press Insert + Control + R to call the regions/landmarks menu.
Press the Down Arrow to Main Navigation.
Press Enter.
Press the Down Arrow to Courses.
Press Enter.
OR
Press Insert + F7 to call the links menu.
Press the Down Arrow to Courses.
Press Enter.
Locate courses
Once courses are loaded successfully (which will be announced by the software), all course names are both header level 4 and links. Because there are links on this page that are not courses, but all courses are header level 4, it is best to use headers to locate courses. Anything ending in ":4", announced as "colon four," is a course you can access.
To locate courses:
Press H to select the headers one at a time.
Press Enter to open a course when its name is spoken.
OR
Press Insert + F6 to call the headers menu.
Press the Down Arrow key to move through courses.
Press Enter to open a course when its name is spoken.
Using the course switcher
When you are inside a course, there is a button in the Banner region that is called Courses button. This button is used to enter another recently visited course without having to go back to the main menu. A short menu with recently visited courses is populated when you select the button. From this short menu, you can go directly to another recent course or return to Courses page by using the View All link.
To use the course switcher with JAWS:
Press Insert + Control + R to call the regions/landmarks menu.
Press the Down Arrow to Banner.
Press Enter.
Press the Up or Down Arrows to Courses button.
Press Enter.
OR
Press Insert + Control + B to call the buttons menu.
Press the Down Arrow key to Courses button.
Press Enter.
You will hear "Your Courses Heading Level One." Press Tab to cycle through your four most recent courses, the View All link, and the Close button. The course ID, the course name, and the course status are all header level 3. Course names are both headers and links. If you select the View All link, you will return to the Courses page.