Temporary Versus Permanent Changes
With both JAWS and MAGic you have the flexibility to make changes quickly that are temporary, or you can make changes that stay in effect permanently. Throughout the exercises in Surf's Up - Surfing the Internet with JAWS and MAGic you will encounter some of these differences, which are described below.
JAWS Quick Settings or MAGic Options
Use either the JAWS Quick Settings dialog box or the Adjust MAGic Options dialog box to make changes very quickly without having to go into various other dialog boxes to do so. There are three different types of changes that can be made in the Adjust JAWS (or MAGic) Options dialog box:
Temporary changes that revert back to normal settings as soon as focus switches to another program window.
Temporary changes that revert back to normal settings when JAWS or MAGic is closed and restarted.
Permanent changes that stay in effect until you change them again at some other time. (This is the default for JAWS Quick Settings.)
When you press INSERT+V to open the JAWS Quick Settings dialog box, or CAPS LOCK+O to open the MAGic Options dialog box, the items at the top of this list are specific to the program that has focus when the keystroke is pressed. So pressing INSERT+V while in Internet Explorer® shows options specific to Internet Explorer, whereas the items near the bottom of the list are more generic. This is very handy for making quick changes for testing or reading purposes.
