11.5

The Shortcut Commands for Social Media

Dragon 11.5 introduces commands to quickly post to Facebook or Twitter. Just select some text you dictated or

some text in an editable document, then say "Post that to Facebook," "Post that to Twitter," or "Tweet that."

You can also append dictation directly to your command, as in the Web search shortcuts: "Post to Facebook

<xyz>," "Post to Twitter <xyz>," or "Tweet <xyz>," where <xyz> represents something you dictate along with the

command. For example, “Post to Facebook thank you to all who came out to support us yesterday” or “Tweet

anyone know a great dentist in Burlington Vermont question mark”

Dragon then brings up a dialog box where you can verify, complete or modify your text. Once you click OK,

Dragon will make the post for you.

The following covers actions often performed in HTML pages. (There are many more commands; see the Help

and Command Browser.)

IMPORTANT: Be sure to see the Help for details including browser specifics. A key difference between

Internet Explorer and Firefox is that Dragon doesn’t have Full Text Control in Firefox – therefore you may wish

to use the Dictation Box (see the lesson “Editing Text by Voice”).

Note: Dragon has no special features for Google Chrome. In this browser, you can only use global commands

(press alt d, press enter, press Escape, press control t, press F5, page down, move mouse up, and mouse

click, etc.) and if you dictate in its text fields you will see that Dragon doesn’t have Full Text Control (the

indicator on the DragonBar is grayed out).

Navigating to and within a Web page

Say go to address to go to the address bar; after entering a URL, say go there or press Enter.

Say go back or go forward to click the Back or Forward buttons; say go home to access the homepage.

Say add to favorites to add the current site to the Favorites list.

Say refresh page or reload page. (To stop a page load, you can say stop loading.)