Introduction

In the previous section you learnt about Quick Navigation Keys and how they enable you to navigate to specific elements on a webpage. Below, you will learn how you can mark your own points on a webpage and navigate to them using the Dolphin Cursor.

Reading time: 5 minutes approx.

Types of Place Markers

You can mark parts of a webpage for easy access in the future with the use of SuperNova and Dolphin ScreenReader Place Markers.

You may find Place Markers a particularly useful productivity tool when you want to jump directly to useful points on a webpage, such as marking your stopping point in a partly reviewed news article.

You can choose to set a single temporary Place Marker or multiple permanent Place Markers on a webpage. A temporary Place Marker is lost when you open a new webpage or close the web browser. Permanent Place Markers are saved and available each time you visit the webpage.

Temporary Place Marker

A temporary Place Marker is one that remains active only for the time you are on the webpage. Once you open a new webpage, the temporary marker is lost.

You may want to use this type of Place Marker if you are visiting a webpage that you are unlikely to revisit again in the future or are dealing with a website whose design and layout is regularly updated.

To set a temporary Place Marker:

1. Move the Dolphin Cursor to the place on the webpage you want to set the temporary marker.
2. Press LEFT CONTROL + CAPS LOCK + A.

You can set only one temporary Place Marker on a webpage. However, you can reposition the temporary marker at any time by moving the Dolphin Cursor to the new position and pressing LEFT CONTROL + CAPS LOCK + A again.

Tip: You can also use a temporary Place Marker to mark the beginning of a selection. To do this, set your temporary Place Marker at the start of the passage you want to select, move the Dolphin cursor to the end of the text and press CONTROL + C to copy the text to the Windows Clipboard. The text will be copied in plain text format and will respect the line breaks detected by the Dolphin cursor.

Permanent Place Markers

A permanent Place Marker is one that is saved and remains active each time you return to the webpage. This type of Place Marker is helpful if you are going to a webpage that you regularly revisit and whose structure is constant.

An example could be a homepage that shows the headlines for national news, local news, sports news, entertainment news and weather forecasts. Such a webpage may require you to navigate through multiple headings before you can reach your desired section. With the use of Place Markers, you can mark the section or sections you want to visit on the webpage and then be able to navigate directly to those sections.

To set a permanent Place Marker:

1. Move the Dolphin Cursor to the place on the webpage you want to set the permanent marker.
2. Press LEFT CONTROL + LEFT SHIFT + A. The "Add Place Marker" dialog box will appear with the focus in the "Place Marker Name" edit area. By default, the edit area contains the text that's at the current Dolphin Cursor location on the webpage. 
   
   
3. If you want to give the marker a more meaningful name, type a new name in this field.
4. Set a "Match Place Marker" value by choosing one of the following:
   • Choose the "Exact position in webpage" to apply strict rules based on its absolute position on the webpage.
   • Choose the "Text and relative position in webpage" to enable some flexibility as the marker’s position is based on the text and surrounding tags. The relative position is the default setting and is also recommended when wishing to apply a marker to a website domain.
5. Choose a "Place Marker scope" value. You can set the marker to apply only to the current URL or the current website domain. You may wish to set the value to the website domain if you want to apply the marker to multiple pages across the website, for example, a link situated in the footer section of a website.
6. Select the "OK" button.

You can insert multiple permanent Place Markers on a webpage. You can also edit, delete, import and export your permanent Place Markers through the "Web Settings" dialog box in the SuperNova and Dolphin ScreenReader Control Panel (ALT + G, W).

Your ability to import and export markers means you can share your markers between your devices or share them with others who may be struggling to navigate complex webpages.

Navigating to Place Markers

SuperNova and Dolphin ScreenReader include a Quick Navigation Key to move the Dolphin cursor to Place Markers. You can press A to move to the next Place Marker and press SHIFT + A to move to the previous Place Marker on a webpage.

You can also use the Item Finder (CAPS LOCK + TAB) to list, select, and navigate to a Place Marker on the current webpage.

Cross-browser compatibility

The Place Markers you create in Mozilla Firefox are not compatible with Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. This is due to the way Mozilla Firefox renders its webpages.

The markers you have created using Mozilla Firefox are tagged with "Firefox" in the SuperNova and Dolphin ScreenReader "Webpage Settings" dialog box.

Summary

In this section you discovered how to set a temporary and permanent Place Marker on a webpage. You also learnt the differences between a temporary and permanent Place Marker and the different parameters you can set.

You learnt the Quick Navigation Key that enables you to move between markers, that they are listed in the Item Finder, and that you can manage them through the "Webpage Settings" dialog box.

Quiz

1. You can have multiple temporary Place Markers on a single webpage. Is this statement true?
2. You can have only one permanent Place Marker on a webpage. Is this statement true?
3. Place Markers you set in Google Chrome can also be used in Mozilla Firefox. Is this statement true?

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