Please note that we experienced problems with JAWS versions preceding 4.01 and recommend you upgrade to JAWS 4.01 before trying to use these forms.

The instructions may or may not apply to your screen reader. Please check with the company that produced your software for additional navigation information.

How to Navigate the Web Pages
To read pages other than the actual forms, you may use JAWS with the Virtual PC Cursor on. Press INSERT+Z to toggle your Virtual PC Cursor on, then press NUM PAD PLUS to turn on the Virtual PC Cursor.

Read text by using your up and down arrow keys. To move through the links on the page, press TAB for the next, and SHIFT+TAB for the prior link.

To open a link, press ENTER. To force the link to open in a new window, press SHIFT+ENTER.

Press INSERT+F7 to open the Links List.

How to Navigate the Forms
Press ENTER on the link to open the form.

If you use Internet Explorer 5 or greater and JAWS 4.01, the Virtual PC Cursor is on when the form page is loaded and JAWS will start speaking the page. Press the CTRL key to stop JAWS from speaking.

Press INSERT+Z to toggle the Virtual PC Cursor off. The Virtual PC Cursor must be off in order to use the forms. Do not press the ENTER key to toggle Forms mode, pressing the enter key will submit the form for processing.

Press NUM PAD MINUS to toggle the JAWS cursor on.

Press INSERT+NUM PAD PLUS to "Route PC Cursor to JAWS Cursor".

Press TAB and SHIFT+TAB to move throughout the form.

Press SPACEBAR on the Previous and Next page buttons to navigate between the pages of the form.

Printing the Form
When the form has been filled in, press the Print/Print Preview button. This will display your filled form in a new window as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.

As your filled PDF opens in a new window, your previous window will return to the list of forms.

In addition to a speech reading software, users should also have installed Adobe Acrobat Reader, or the full Adobe Acrobat suite. You will be able to print your form with either version by pressing CTRL+P to open the print dialog.

Troubleshooting
If you experience any difficulty reading the forms with JAWS, please use the following procedure:

1. Use the JAWS configuration "Advanced Options" dialog to uncheck "Use Virtual PC Cursor". If you don't do this then you may have to press INSERT+Z to turn off the Virtual PC Cursor each time a form page is displayed.
2. When a form page is displayed in Internet Explorer, first press the NUM PAD MINUS key to turn on the JAWS cursor, then press INSERT+NUM PAD PLUS to "Route PC Cursor to JAWS Cursor".

To toggle the Virtual PC Cursor back on to view other pages, you would press INSERT+Z and NUM PAD PLUS. When you finish using our forms, you may wish to return your JAWS configuration to it's original settings.

WindowEyes users should turn off MSAA mode when viewing the fill-able forms.

Navigation Tips
Press TAB to navigate through the form. Controls have been created on the forms to enable JAWS to speak the text on the form, as well as descriptions of graphics and fill-able form fields.

These controls will be encountered in a logical order, in the same way as a sighted user would read and complete each form.

Text: As the cursor lands on text, it will speak the text. Press INSERT + Up Arrow to repeat the text. Press TAB to continue to the next form control or text field. Press SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous field.

Edit boxes: If the cursor lands on an edit box, it will speak it's description followed by "edit. Type and text". You may begin to type directly into the box. As you are typing, you may press the left or right arrow keys to speak each character and INSERT + Left Arrow or Right Arrow to speak the word you move to.

Checkboxes: Press spacebar to check or uncheck the box, press TAB to continue to the next form control or text field.

Radio buttons: When you get to a set of radio buttons, use CTRL + the arrow keys to move from button to button and automatically select one. You can only select one radio button. Press TAB to continue to the next form control or text field.

Buttons: Press SPACEBAR to "click" on a button. Press TAB to continue to the next form control or text field.