As you have seen, navigating through a web page with a screen reader takes time, as the user must listen to all of the text on the page. Even when the speech rate is set high, we don't currently have a way to skim through a document.
Fortunately, screen readers allow the user to skip to various landmarks on a page. In this activity we'll use page headers (like the one above) to navigate.
As before, you can turn on the virtual screen reader using shift+S, and you can navigate to the next line using shift+arrow down or shift+arrow up to read the previous line. Now you can also navigate through headers: press H to skip to the next header or shift+H to skip to the previous header. You can use these to skip to a later section, then use the arrows to navigate within that section.
Try it out on the display below. Note that this time the text is hidden, so you need to navigate using the screen reader.
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (nee Murray; December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
In 1934, Hopper earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale under the direction of Oystein Ore. Her dissertation, "New Types of Irreducibility Criteria", was published that same year. She began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931, and was promoted to associate professor in 1941.
In accordance with Navy attrition regulations, Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of commander at age 60 at the end of 1966. She was recalled to active duty in August 1967 for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She again retired in 1971 but was again asked to return to active duty in 1972. She was promoted to captain in 1973 by Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
To complete this activity, use the keyboard to navigate to the end of the document.
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