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JAWS Power Tip: How To Use JAWS Smart Glance Highlights to Quickly Locate Important Text on a Web Page

Smart Glance highlights in JAWS are visually distinctive pieces of text on a web page, such as bold, colored, or uniquely formatted content that stands out from the rest. JAWS detects these highlights to help you quickly find important information that might not be marked as a heading or link. This feature is especially useful for catching key points, warnings, or visually emphasized content that could otherwise be missed.

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Welcome, Accessible Data: How Top Tech Tidbits’ Newest Sponsor Is Showing the World What an Accessible Survey Actually Looks Like

Top Tech Tidbits Publisher Aaron Di Blasi welcomes Accessible Data, the London-based, IDA-co-designed, UN-trusted survey platform led by co-founder and CEO Jerry Nicholson, to the Top Tech Tidbits Sponsor family. He walks readers through what makes their work different from every survey tool that has ever made you want to close the tab, who already trusts them with the data that shapes policy, and how Dr. Kirk Adams brought Jerry into the Top Tech Tidbits orbit.

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Attention Sponsors: Past, Present and Future: Top Tech Tidbits Now Provides Verified Quarterly Audience Insight Reports via LinkedIn Matched Audiences

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces the launch of independent, LinkedIn-verified Audience Insight reports, an answer to the question Sponsors have been asking him for nearly two decades: who, exactly, reads Top Tech Tidbits each week? On May 15, 2026, the publication uploaded a hashed copy of its email list to LinkedIn Matched Audiences. LinkedIn matched 38,910 of 45,776 subscribers against active member profiles, an 85% match rate well above LinkedIn’s published 30-60% B2B baseline. The new Audience Insights page publishes twelve full demographic panels (top job functions, seniority, industries, employers, geography, skills, and content interests) drawn from those verified profiles, with quarterly regenerations on the calendar to give Sponsors a continuing third-party view of audience composition over time.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Use JAWS Page Explorer To Provide Tips On Navigating Busy or Complex Web Pages

Page Explorer is a JAWS feature that provides a quick summary of any web page. It tells you about the page’s layout, main content, important links, and gives you tips for navigating the page efficiently.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Read Formulas in Excel with JAWS

Formulas determine how values are calculated in Excel. When navigating to a cell containing a calculation, JAWS will speak the calculation result and let you know a formula is present. JAWS can also read the formula, which helps ensure accuracy, especially when checking for errors or verifying results. Reading formulas is also important when auditing someone else’s spreadsheet, since it allows you to confirm that calculations are logical and correct. It can also help you learn Excel syntax by hearing how formulas are structured, and makes troubleshooting easier when results don’t look right.

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Welcome, Techopolis: Why Top Tech Tidbits’ Newest Sponsor Is One of the Most Important Indie Apple Studios in Access Tech Today

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for Top Tech Tidbits, welcomes Techopolis to the publication’s Sponsor family effective May 1, 2026, and walks 45,000+ weekly readers through why this two-person, founder-financed Apple-platform studio belongs in their inbox. Di Blasi traces a fourteen-year track record from Michael Doise, the legally blind iOS and macOS developer behind VO Starter, ACB Link, NFB-NEWSLINE Mobile, PocketBraille, and the WayAround mobile apps, through Techopolis’s current product family, led by Perspective Intelligence, a private, on-device AI assistant for iPhone, iPad, and Mac built on Apple Foundation Models with Gemma fallback.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To List Form Fields on a Web Page Using JAWS

Form fields are used in online forms, such as sign-up pages, contact forms, and surveys, to collect information from you. With JAWS, you can quickly find and move between these fields to fill out forms efficiently. You can list all the form fields on a web page using JAWS. This is useful because it lets you quickly find out what information is required, easily jump to each field to fill it out, and later review your answers to make sure everything is correct. Listing form fields helps you stay organized and ensures you don’t miss anything important on forms.

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