Something to brighten your weekend maybe.
Particularly yesterday I did see a lot of anger about the fact that some people cannot get access to the new JAWS feature, Page Explorer. This provides guidance in terms of how to navigate a page with JAWS, and it can be used to summarise the content and ask questions.
I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town.

Anyone who has been trained by me through the use of my AI training courses will have known about this for quite a while. But if you use Microsoft Edge, there is a feature called, Summarise with CoPilot.
If you focus upon a piece of static text on a page, not a link, you can activate the Context Menu and select Summarise with CoPilot.
Within a few seconds, that will summarise the page for you. You can then ask questions about that content if you wanted to.
A question that may be asked is:
Describe some good strategies I can use when navigating this page with JAWS for Windows, or whatever your screen-reader of choice is.
You type it into the edit field and press Enter.
You could submit other prompts such as, describe the images on this page. Describe if the device has any buttons and provide the button layout from left to right.

The primary advantage here is that it is very fast and will display the summary or answers to questions in a few seconds with well-structured heading navigation. Start at the bottom of the page and work up with Shift+H.
The disadvantage of course is that it's not going to give you guidance on screen-reader strategies unless you ask it, and the guidance may not be of the quality given by Page Explorer, because that has been coached to do a very specific job.
But you may not want guidance anyway. You may want to go straight to the summary. Take the case of a page on Audible. If you activate Summarise with CoPilot on a book title page, it is going to give you the relevant points including a book summary and similar books.

So if you don't have Page Explorer, there are other choices. As I say, it's good at what it does but it's not the only option. You could even ask an AI tool such as ChatGPT to summarise a page for you if the prompt was well constructed, but that approach does have some significant limitations. It would not for example work on all pages.

@brian_hartgen @freedomscientific First Brian Thank you for all the work you do! Jaws wouldn't be as good as it is without your scripting!! We shouldn't need to employ these workarounds! To Vispero whoever made this decision to not make this available to home annual users should be fired! At the very least The Home annual users should've had a pathway to upgrade to the feature. Did we? No #corporategreed #jaws2026 #vispero #freedomscientific #homeannualusersmatter #accessforall If you are Vispero how do you fix this? 1 quit being radio silent. Come out immediately how and when are you going to fix it? I don't care if you need to release an update next week to make this available for home annual users you should do so immediately! 2 This sort of thing should never happen again! 3 if this is not resolved when it is time to renew my Jaws License It will not be renewed. I'll switch to a mac most likely Why? They wouldn't pull the crap you are pulling. The entire point of the home annual license was Home annual users would get all the features of Jaws That was said at the time home annual licenses were announced We aren't! If you are in a job setting and you need AI page summarizer you shouldn't have the job in the first place!
@brian_hartgen The Page Explorer feature does have one advantage that this solution may not, and that is the ability to click on links within the summary to go to other pages:
> Identify important links on a page you may need to know about so you don’t have to browse through the entire page to locate them. Links activated from the Page Explorer window will open in your default web browser.
@twynn That's not quite right. Summarise with CoPilot can provide links to web pages and they do work when activated, obviously in Edge though.
@brian_hartgen Oh, huh. That's actually pretty neat for those that like that sort of thing. Thanks for taking the time to engage.
@brian_hartgen @technolass Another advantage of this is that JAWS isn't needed. You could use NVDA or maybe even Narrator.