First Steps

• How to Use the Mouse
  When moving the mouse over a Web page, you will notice that certain areas are highlighted in pink. These are the blocks of text that you can tag. Sometimes the pink areas are fairly small (single words or lines of text), sometimes they are pretty large (whole paragraphs, or even whole pages). Thus it makes sense to move the mouse around a little before you actually start tagging because sometimes you want to tag big areas as, say, 'bad', and it saves you a lot of time if you do not have to tag every single line or paragraph. As a rule of thumb, it often makes sense to tag everything in red ('bad'), from top to bottom, and only then start tagging smaller pieces in yellow or green ('uncertain' or 'good', respectively) (see also Examples, Tips & Tricks).
  
  

• How to Choose the Tag
  

  This section deals with assigning tags. If you want information on how to choose the right tag to assign, go to the Annotation Guidelines.
  

  For tagging a pink-highlighted section as 'good', 'bad', or 'uncertain', you have two options: You can use (1) keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) or you can use (2) the context menu (rightclick).
  

  1. Keyboard Shortcuts
     • bad: ctrl+alt+1
     • uncertain: ctrl+alt+2
     • good: ctrl+alt+3
     • clear annotation: ctrl+alt+4
  2. Context Menu
     • Rightclick when you are over the section you want to tag, then choose KrdWrd, and then the tag you want to assign.
       

       
       

     • Using the context menu is not recommended, however. It is much more time-consuming to navigate the menu than to use the keyboard shortcuts.
     • Note also that if the mouse cursor leaves the menu area, a possibly different part of the page will be highlighted for tagging (namely the part that is now 'under' your mouse).

• Cookies and Certificates
  When some of the pages are being loaded, your Web browser will ask you whether you want to accept cookies (of course, depending on your browser settings: If you use a separate profile for the KrdWrd add-on, just allow all cookies, see Tips & Tricks). Actually, you do not have to accept any cookies; however, nothing bad will happen if you do accept them.