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Re: Refurbished Tablets
Mike Ulrich <mulrich@...>
I’ve seen Android based tablets with 16 gigs go for as little as $39.00 on Amazon. But I tried in vane to learn the Talk Back and the whole blind droid thing. I’m no dummy, but to heck with that Android fill in the blank. No offense to the Android crowd, but it was so easy, to pick up an IPhone and roll right out of the box! Just my 1.27 cents worth from an ordinary average blind guy! LOL!
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Cristóbal
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 10:46 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Refurbished Tablets
Buying a refurbished tablet in general, is a perfectly reasonable option Whether you’ll be able to maximize its use for this method... Since this is a Jaws list, I can only assume that you’re looking for something Windows based? I’ve seen sales for refurbished Surface tablets in the range of $350 to $500, but at that price, a low end laptop or refurbished laptop may end up giving you more bang for your buck. I know Dell and other companies used to make affordable Windows tablets, but I haven’t kept up to date on that market as I haven’t had the need for one. With this sort of purchase, you’re going to want to pay attention to specs. The last thing you’ll want is to be fighting with a sluggish machine while at the same time trying to take notes or whatever.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Elise Berkley
Hello, everyone. I am a little green in this area. I was wondering what everyone thinks about purchasing refurbished tablets from somewhere like, say Amazon. I need a tablet for school just to take notes. Then, when I get home, I copy my note files over to my laptop and do the real work there. Thanks for your opinions. Elise |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Carolyn Arnold <4carolyna@...>
When I had XP, the best I remember, nothing past IE 10 would
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work with it. Bye for now, Carolyn -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Howard Traxler Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 9:59 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Sorry for the long response, but: I have several machines running everything from win98 to xp sp3. Versions of jaws from 5 to 11. Most sites woulod not let me keep using ie8 so I loaded firefox. The only version of jaws that'll read firefox is version 8. So I'm forced to do everything on a 12-year-old laptop that's about to bite the dust. Gonna have to search for IE11 and see if it'll run onn my XP machine. Suggestions--besides get with it and gget win10. Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: Marsha via Groups.Io <mailto:marcatony@...> To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:53 PM Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hi I like IE but it keeps crashing. I am using Windows 7 Jaws 16 and IE11. It crashes so many times Haven't got a clue why. Does anyone have an explanation? Thanks in advance Marsha On 2/20/2017 7:42 PM, Carolyn Arnold wrote: I definitely prefer Internet Explorer. Bye for now, Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Kevin Hourigan Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hello Mike, I am surprised you did not receive a bunch of responses to this one. I personally prefer IE. But also have FF for it's webvisum feature. If memory serves there are lots of people who prefer FF. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: February 20, 2017 1:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com <http://www.harmonicaworkshops.com> www.woodeneyemusic.com <http://www.woodeneyemusic.com> |
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Re: Refurbished Tablets
Cristóbal
Buying a refurbished tablet in general, is a perfectly reasonable option Whether you’ll be able to maximize its use for this method... Since this is a Jaws list, I can only assume that you’re looking for something Windows based? I’ve seen sales for refurbished Surface tablets in the range of $350 to $500, but at that price, a low end laptop or refurbished laptop may end up giving you more bang for your buck. I know Dell and other companies used to make affordable Windows tablets, but I haven’t kept up to date on that market as I haven’t had the need for one. With this sort of purchase, you’re going to want to pay attention to specs. The last thing you’ll want is to be fighting with a sluggish machine while at the same time trying to take notes or whatever.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Elise Berkley
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 5:36 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Refurbished Tablets
Hello, everyone. I am a little green in this area. I was wondering what everyone thinks about purchasing refurbished tablets from somewhere like, say Amazon. I need a tablet for school just to take notes. Then, when I get home, I copy my note files over to my laptop and do the real work there. Thanks for your opinions. Elise |
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Refurbished Tablets
Elise Berkley
Hello, everyone. I am a little green in this area. I was wondering what everyone thinks about purchasing refurbished tablets from somewhere like, say Amazon. I need a tablet for school just to take notes. Then, when I get home, I copy my note files over to my laptop and do the real work there. Thanks for your opinions. Elise |
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Sophos AntiVirus & Jaws Accessibility
Mike B. <mb69mach1@...>
Hi All,
I've been hearing a lot about the
Sophos antivirus program, & I would like to get some feedback from people
that are currently using this program, or have used it in the past. How
does it compare to MSSE, AVG, or any of the other free antivirus programs that
people are running? How accessible is it with Jaws? We're running
Windows 7 Pro, Outlook Express, & Jaws 15 thru 18. All feedback will
be greatly appreciated. Thanks much.
Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Mike Rogers
Thanks to everybody for responses. Using Windows 7.
Mike ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:58:46 -0600 "Howard Traxler" <howard@...> wrote: Sorry for the long response, but: |
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Re: Reading smile emoticons
Palmer Loux <Plmrlx@...>
What is the Leasey key? Is it on a laptop keyboard?
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Sieghard Weitzel <sieghard@...>
Get a Windows 7 machine although I really don’t know why you torcher yourself with computer technology that is a decade old or older. I mean no offense, but considering that you can pick up a decent Windows 7 or Windows 10 laptop or desktop for $500 or $600 (I assume you are in the US) I just don’t get the point. Yes, you would have to also pay to upgrade Jaws, but unless the $1,200 or $1,500 it would take is totally out of your reach to me this doesn’t make sense. Windows XP is wide open to attacks as no security updates have been released in 2 years. I don’t of course know what you do with your computers, but I use mine daily for my business as well as personal use and I could not even do what I need to do on a 10-year old machine let alone I’d be scared to death the hard drive would die any day now and I’d loose a lot of important stuff. Keep in mind this I sjust my opinion. I also still have one old PC desktop at my store which is 9 years old, but it still can run Windows 7 and actually could run Windows 10, but I have already purchased a replacement HP Mini PC for it so there is no point in trying to bother to upgrade it. Apart from that I love Windows 10 and think it’s absolutely the best Microsoft has ever made, Windows 7 had that honour prior to Windows 10 and of course it keeps getting better with every major update.
Regards, Sieghard
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io]
On Behalf Of Howard Traxler
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 6:59 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Sorry for the long response, but: I have several machines running everything from win98 to xp sp3. Versions of jaws from 5 to 11. Most sites woulod not let me keep using ie8 so I loaded firefox. The only version of jaws that'll read firefox is version 8. So I'm forced to do everything on a 12-year-old laptop that's about to bite the dust. Gonna have to search for IE11 and see if it'll run onn my XP machine.
Suggestions--besides get with it and gget win10.
Howard
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Alyssa <lyssassong@...>
Thank you for this information! I thought I had searched for it before that
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way. I was able to find it tonight. It seems to freeze Firefox, so I turned it off until I know I'll need it. At least I have it now. -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 9:13 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Firefox and Webvisum work fine together, but you now have to download Webvisum via the Firefox Add-Ons Manager (in the Tools menu) and not via the Webvisum website. Go to Tools > Add-Ons Manager, once the page loads, use Jaws Key+F7 to bring up the list of links on that site and go to "See more add-ons", it's the last link for me when I just did this. Once that page loads you have a search box, type in "Webvisum" and press enter. After the page loads use your heading quicknav keys to find where it says "Search results for Webvisum" or use Jaws Find and simply search for Webvisum again on that page. Below the "search results heading you find a link for "Webvisum requires restart, clickable" and underneath that the explanation " The ultimate web browsing helper for blind and visually impaired Internet users!". Press enter on the Webvisum requires restart and allow the installation, then Firefox needs to restart and once it does you will be asked for your user name and password for Webvisum, you can check the box to remember this and once done Webvisum will always load and you will get signed in when you start Firefox. Apart from that I agree with the opinion of others, IE is still my preferred browser, but I think it is essentials to have at least Firefox on your PC also as some sites no longer support IE well and I think everybody should have a Webvisum user name and password and take advantage of this great tool for solving captchas. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Alyssa Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 5:11 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. I agree that it depends on the site. However, when last I checked, Firefox would not allow for Webvisum to be installed. It gave some kind of error about the certificate not being published. I never did find a way around it. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Kevin Hourigan Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hello Mike, I am surprised you did not receive a bunch of responses to this one. I personally prefer IE. But also have FF for it's webvisum feature. If memory serves there are lots of people who prefer FF. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: February 20, 2017 1:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Tom Behler
This has been my experience as well. However, I have to admit that I'm
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having more problems with the latest version of Firefox. I believe it's version 50.1. I am finding that I often have to launch Firefox several times to successfully navigate certain web sites. I can get to the start page, but shortly afterwords, Jaws goes silent, and refreshing the page does no good. The only way to solve the issue is to exit out of Firefox, and then re-start the browser. Not very convenient. Tom Behler -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of dennis Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:44 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. some websites work better with one over the other. sometimes i have to switch because a website works better with ie and sometimes with ff. On 2/20/2017 6:29 PM, Kevin Hourigan wrote: Hello Mike, |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Howard Traxler <howard@...>
Sorry for the long response, but:
I have several machines running everything from
win98 to xp sp3. Versions of jaws from 5 to 11. Most sites woulod
not let me keep using ie8 so I loaded firefox. The only version of jaws
that'll read firefox is version 8. So I'm forced to do everything on a
12-year-old laptop that's about to bite the dust. Gonna have to search for
IE11 and see if it'll run onn my XP machine.
Suggestions--besides get with it and gget
win10.
Howard
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Pablo Morales
Jaws works great with both browsers.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 4:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Mike Rogers
Thank you for this.
Mike ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:12:49 +0000 "Sieghard Weitzel" <sieghard@...> wrote: Firefox and Webvisum work fine together, but you now have to download Webvisum via the Firefox Add-Ons Manager (in the Tools menu) and not via the Webvisum website. Go to Tools > Add-Ons Manager, once the page loads, use Jaws Key+F7 to bring up the list of links on that site and go to "See more add-ons", it's the last link for me when I just did this. Once that page loads you have a search box, type in "Webvisum" and press enter. After the page loads use your heading quicknav keys to find where it says "Search results for Webvisum" or use Jaws Find and simply search for Webvisum again on that page. Below the "search results heading you find a link for "Webvisum requires restart, clickable" and underneath that the explanation " The ultimate web browsing helper for blind and visually impaired Internet users!". |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Sieghard Weitzel <sieghard@...>
Firefox and Webvisum work fine together, but you now have to download Webvisum via the Firefox Add-Ons Manager (in the Tools menu) and not via the Webvisum website. Go to Tools > Add-Ons Manager, once the page loads, use Jaws Key+F7 to bring up the list of links on that site and go to "See more add-ons", it's the last link for me when I just did this. Once that page loads you have a search box, type in "Webvisum" and press enter. After the page loads use your heading quicknav keys to find where it says "Search results for Webvisum" or use Jaws Find and simply search for Webvisum again on that page. Below the "search results heading you find a link for "Webvisum requires restart, clickable" and underneath that the explanation " The ultimate web browsing helper for blind and visually impaired Internet users!".
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Press enter on the Webvisum requires restart and allow the installation, then Firefox needs to restart and once it does you will be asked for your user name and password for Webvisum, you can check the box to remember this and once done Webvisum will always load and you will get signed in when you start Firefox. Apart from that I agree with the opinion of others, IE is still my preferred browser, but I think it is essentials to have at least Firefox on your PC also as some sites no longer support IE well and I think everybody should have a Webvisum user name and password and take advantage of this great tool for solving captchas. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Alyssa Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 5:11 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. I agree that it depends on the site. However, when last I checked, Firefox would not allow for Webvisum to be installed. It gave some kind of error about the certificate not being published. I never did find a way around it. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Kevin Hourigan Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hello Mike, I am surprised you did not receive a bunch of responses to this one. I personally prefer IE. But also have FF for it's webvisum feature. If memory serves there are lots of people who prefer FF. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: February 20, 2017 1:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Marsha <marcatony@...>
Hi
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I like IE but it keeps crashing. I am using Windows 7 Jaws 16 and IE11. It crashes so many times Haven't got a clue why. Does anyone have an explanation? Thanks in advance Marsha On 2/20/2017 7:42 PM, Carolyn Arnold
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I definitely prefer Internet Explorer. Bye for now, Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Kevin Hourigan Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hello Mike, I am surprised you did not receive a bunch of responses to this one. I personally prefer IE. But also have FF for it's webvisum feature. If memory serves there are lots of people who prefer FF. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: February 20, 2017 1:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Carolyn Arnold <4carolyna@...>
I definitely prefer Internet Explorer.
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Bye for now, Carolyn -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Kevin Hourigan Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hello Mike, I am surprised you did not receive a bunch of responses to this one. I personally prefer IE. But also have FF for it's webvisum feature. If memory serves there are lots of people who prefer FF. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: February 20, 2017 1:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com |
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Re: Regarding "lock screen"
Sieghard Weitzel <sieghard@...>
I usually just press Enter and that will put focus into thefield for my PIN. It could be different if you use a password instead of a PIN, but I really like the PIN since I can quickly punch it in on the keypad and whatever length I set Windows knows when I have entered the appropriate number of digits and it will just login without the need to enter the password and press enter.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Jason White via Groups.Io Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 3:45 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Regarding "lock screen" Onwardbob <onwardbob@...> wrote: On accident I hit Windows and L keys together and heard "Lock Screen." It's usually Escape or Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the password prompt, then enter your password to return to your desktop session. |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Feliciano G
I prefer the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox is my alternate option.Regards,Feliciano For tech tips and updates, LIKE www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow www.twitter.com/theblindman12v On Feb 20, 2017, at 5:10 PM, Alyssa <lyssassong@...> wrote: |
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Re: Firefox vs. I.E.
Alyssa <lyssassong@...>
I agree that it depends on the site. However, when last I checked, Firefox
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would not allow for Webvisum to be installed. It gave some kind of error about the certificate not being published. I never did find a way around it. -----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Kevin Hourigan Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 7:29 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox vs. I.E. Hello Mike, I am surprised you did not receive a bunch of responses to this one. I personally prefer IE. But also have FF for it's webvisum feature. If memory serves there are lots of people who prefer FF. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike Rogers Sent: February 20, 2017 1:32 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox vs. I.E. I'm a fairly new Jaws user. Which of these two browsers works best with Jaws? I've used Firefox for years, but With Window Eyes, the mouse keys stopped working. ******************************** www.harmonicaworkshops.com www.woodeneyemusic.com |
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scripts for AVG
Lisa-Maree
Hi all, I am fixing a computer for someone who wants to use AVG. Are there scripts for this program? The version of jaws is jaws 16.
Thanks. Lisa-Maree
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