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Thank you for visiting the SPRITEs tutorial website! SPRITEs is an NVDA addon that introduces a new way to navigate tables using your keyboard, on google chrome. We wanted to give you some information before you continue to use this website. The purpose of this website is to provide information or to host a tutorial to teach you to use our improved interaction techniques. With your consent, we would like to gather basic usage information like time spent on each webpage and the buttons or links that you click on or activate as you use this website. Please note that this aggregated information can not be used to identify you and will be stored securely in a separate location from any data you may explicitly provide in this website. Aggregated data received from this website may be used to improve our tools and provide better experiences, and may also be used in scientific publications or blogs to communicate the efficacy of the interaction techniques we develop. Please note that you can continue to use the website even if you chose to not provide the data mentioned above, but functionality may be limited in some cases. This addon, and the tutorial are research products and we appreciate any feedback via this google form or issues and feature requests via GitHub. Please choose an option below to continue.

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Locating Search Results with SPRITEs Navigation

Just a recap, when you perform a search, SPRITEs jumps to the first search result. After SPRITEs jumps to the first search result, it simply shifts the table and aligns the upper left corner of your keyboard with the cell containing the search result. You can explore around the table under search mode with some additional announcements that help you locate other search results. For example, if you switch to a column that contains 2 more search results other than the current cell selected, SPRITEs will announce “2 more found in this column”. As soon as you land on a search result, SPRITEs will also announce “Found” before speaking the content of the cell. Now, with the same table below, press NVDA+SHIFT+T to activate SPRITEs mode and press F to search for “delta” again. After SPRITEs jumps to the first search result, try to find the second search result in the table, which should locate at row 7 column 5. Once you found it, exit the search mode and SPRITEs by pressing Escape twice, then press Next to continue.

Flight Number	Source Airport	Stops	Destination Airport	Carrier	Price
1	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Nonstop	John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, NY	Delta	$260
2	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Nonstop	John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, NY	Alaska Airlines	$262
3	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Charlotte (CLT)	John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, NY	American Airlines	$266
4	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Charlotte (CLT)	LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York, NY	American Airlines	$270
5	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Nonstop	Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Newark, NJ	United	$258
6	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Nonstop	Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Newark, NJ	Delta	$256
7	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Charlotte (CLT)	Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Newark, NJ	American Airlines	$265
8	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA	Chicago (ORD)	Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Newark, NJ	American Airlines	$280

A Note about Search Time

Since the SPRITEs keyword search requires processing the whole table, it could take a while to complete a search on a large table. While you can still explore the table when SPRITEs is searching for the keyword, you will hear “searching” if you attempt to press F to initiate a new search. In that case, our advice is to wait patiently until the current search is completed.