Working with Edge

For more information, see About the Dictation Box and About Natural Language Commands.

Procedures

To open Edge:

Say "Open Microsoft Edge".

To open a Web page:

  1. Say "Press Alt d".

    The cursor moves to the Address field.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Dictate the Web address directly in the Address field. Use this option if you don't need Full Text Control.

      For more information, see Dictating email addresses and web addresses.

      For more information on Full Text Control, see About Full Text Control.

    • Use the Dictation Box:

      1. From the DragonBar, select Tools>Dictation Box, or say "Open Dictation Box".
      2. Dictate the Web address in the Dictation Box, and then click Transfer, or say "Click Transfer".

  3. Say "Press Enter".

    The Web page opens.

To open a list of Web commands:

Say "What Can I Say?".

To move between fields:

Say "Press Tab".

To use tabs:

To open a new tab:

Say "Open a New Tab".

To close a tab:

Say "Close the Tab".

To switch to tabs:

Say one of the following:

  • "Go to the Next Tab"
  • "Go to the Previous Tab"
  • "Go to the Last Tab"
  • "Go to the First Tab"
  • "Go to the <nth> Tab"

You can also say "Switch to" instead of "Go to".

To navigate forward and backward:

To go forward:

Say "Go Forward".

Dragon opens the next page in your browser history.

To go backward:

Say "Go Back".

Dragon opens the previous page in your browser history.

To click links and other controls:

Say "Click" followed by the control name, or just part of it. If you deselected the Require 'Click' to select hyperlinks in HTML windows option on the Options dialog box—Commands page, you don't need to say "Click" first. Just say the control name.

To click list boxes:

  1. Say "Click List Box".
  2. Say "Click <list option>" to select an option in the list.

To click all other controls:

Say one of the following:

  • "Click <link name>"
  • "Click <button name>"
  • "Click <check box name>"
  • "Click <edit box name>"
  • "Click <image name>"
  • "Click <radio button name>"
  • "Click <text field name>"

To click controls when there are multiple instances:

  1. Say one of the following:
    • "Show Links" or "Click Link"
    • "Click Button"
    • "Click Check Box"
    • "Click Edit Box"
    • "Click Image"
    • "Click Radio Button"
    • "Click Text Field"
    • "Click Type Text"

    Numbers appear next to all controls of that type.

  2. Say "Choose <number>" to click a control. This also makes all numbers disappear.

To hide the numbers:

Say one of the following:

  • "Cancel"
  • "Hide Numbers"

 

Related procedures Additional information
Dictating email addresses and web addresses About the Dictation Box
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