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Re: Typability From yesaccessibility.com
James Malone
$150.00.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Tim Ford
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:12 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Typability From yesaccessibility.com
How much does this product cost?
Tim Ford
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of James Malone
The one good thing about David Pinto is that he makes this program fun and rewarding in its own way. He spends thousands of hours perfecting his scripts, and will provide help and documentation for his work. And most important, he’ll make it work with Jaws, not no silly animation such as Talking Typing Teacher.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of JM Casey
Certainly agree with your principle Glenn … though I am not sure it’s always entirely wrong to profit from a niche market like the disabled, certainly the entire model should be different and it’s ridiculous that the costs for some of these blindness-related products is so inflated.
I don’t know anything about typing tutorials nowadays, but I certainly remember some on disk for the Apple II computer. In the mid/late 80s when I was using the things, they were already old and I think most software was already in the public domain or close to. There were a few fun typing games … one that was kind of like space invaders and made use of the limited Apple speaker sound capability as well as the Echo speech synthesiser, whose pitch would increase as the letters got “closer” to you. Fun times. Haha
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Glenn / Lenny
Honestly, typing is one of the most important skills lacking in the Blind. Mostly among the newly Blind. However, with that in mind, in my opinion, I would state that it is despicable to make profit off a typing program designed for the Blind. I think makers of software for the Blind, or other disabilities if it exists, need to stop making a living off the backs of the disabled, and spearhead an open-source movement for specialized software for the disabled, and get a real job. It will always be a small market and the cost will always be ten to twenty times the cost to the consumer of similar software, to the general public because of its limited market. That is why the rehabilitation-specific software that state agencies purchase cost a couple million dollars per agency and about a third of a million annually to maintain it, for a product that by standards of complexity could otherwise easily be done as open-source software. I have a degree in business management, so it's not like I don't understand how business works. And I find it even worse when the disabled themselves engage in profiting off their brothers and sisters, especially when they have or still do exist on a disability-related income. But to my original point, there needs to be an open-source typing program designed for the Blind, because a good one would incorporate some screenreader keyboard commands, Fun With Typability does this, I don't recall if TTT does, it's been a long time since I taught with that one. So they are decent products in terms of what is needed, they only need to be free to consumers. Perhaps they should operate like some programs do, free for home use, and a cost for business use.
Glenn
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Re: free jaws help
I assume whatever registration steps you completed took care of the license you'll need to activate the JAWS you install. You can go to the following site to download the latest JAWS 2020 in order to install it:
https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/JAWS
Alan Lemly
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ron Pelletier
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:58 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: free jaws help
Hi Jerry,
If you don’t have a JAWS 2020 icon on your desktop, you have to assume it didn’t install. There is no harm in downloading and install again. If it did install, it will only go into repair mode so no harm done.
Ron & Danvers
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jerry hathaway
I registered on the Freedom Scientific Licensing portal to get the free Jaws license that is available until the end of June. After getting register I click on the download and install the program on to my computer, but I cannot find the new Jaws version on my computer and the only Jaws program version of 16.0 that I have on my computer is the only one I can find. Can anyone tell me what went wrong with the process and how I can fix to get the current subscription version of Jaws on my computer.
Jerry .
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sorry I am off topic, re from where please can I maybe buy a new voice activated dvd player or voice activated universal remote control
Hank William Merchant
Hello,
I am really sorry I am way off topic with this following question, but I
dont know where else to turn to see if I can maybe get help with this question.
Does maybe anyone on the list maybe know from where online I can maybe buy a new
voice activated dvd player or a voice activated universal remote control that I
can program with some sighted help to work with my already owned regular dvd
player
Any help I can maybe get with this by please replying to me privately would
be so very much appreciated. Much, much thanks in advance for any help I can
maybe get with this.
All the best,
Warmest regards,
Hank
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Re: free jaws help
Ron Pelletier
Hi Jerry,
If you don’t have a JAWS 2020 icon on your desktop, you have to assume it didn’t install. There is no harm in downloading and install again. If it did install, it will only go into repair mode so no harm done.
Ron & Danvers
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jerry hathaway
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:48 PM To: JFW Listserve <jfw@groups.io> Subject: free jaws help
I registered on the Freedom Scientific Licensing portal to get the free Jaws license that is available until the end of June. After getting register I click on the download and install the program on to my computer, but I cannot find the new Jaws version on my computer and the only Jaws program version of 16.0 that I have on my computer is the only one I can find. Can anyone tell me what went wrong with the process and how I can fix to get the current subscription version of Jaws on my computer.
Jerry .
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Re: free jaws help
Richard Turner
Did you reboot your computer?
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You should have an icon on the desktop for Jaws 2020.
Richard "Today's poop is tomorrow's fertilizer." -- Anonymous (Sent from my iPhone SE) Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com “
On Mar 27, 2020, at 7:48 PM, Jerry hathaway <jerry.hathaway2@...> wrote:
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free jaws help
Jerry hathaway
I registered on the Freedom Scientific Licensing
portal to get the free Jaws license that is available until the end of June.
After getting register I click on the download and install the program on to my
computer, but I cannot find the new Jaws version on my computer and the only
Jaws program version of 16.0 that I have on my computer is the only one I can
find. Can anyone tell me what went wrong with the process and how I can fix to
get the current subscription version of Jaws on my computer.
Jerry
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Opening a link that is in a google docs document with JAWS2020
Shai
Hello,
I have a google docs document that has links in it. JAWS identifies these as links but I am not able to interact ie navigate to and access it. Is there a means other than downloading the document as a Microsoft word file and accessing the link in the document this way to be able to access it from within Google Docs itself? I only have view access to the file but was able to enable screen reader mode. I tried pressing tab and also pressing insert with f7 in the hopes that JAWS would bring up a links list but tab did not do anything and pressing insert with f7 said that this feature is only available within a virtual document. I am using JAWS2020 latest update with Google Chrome browser on a Windows10 machine. Thank you in advance for all responses.
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Re: QCast?
David Diamond
So, how do we get thispodcast player? Sorry, I tried scrolling down to your message but for some reason I could not.
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Re: Office.com with JAWS
Shai
It's in mail options in settings. This article may be of help
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although it does not have any keyboard commands. If you still have trouble, I would recommend contacting the Microsoft accessibility help. I remember that it was also difficult for me to locate. Here is the link to the article https://support.lesley.edu/support/solutions/articles/4000048040-how-to-change-your-office-365-email-to-from-the-light-version Lastly, the number to Microsoft accessibility is (800-936-5900).
On 3/27/20, Sharon Clark <sharonjackson03@comcast.net> wrote:
Hello Shai,
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Re: Firefox Is Not Responding
Annabelle Susan Morison
Never heard of that addon before. What does it do?
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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mario Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:13 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding are you aware that NVDA has an addon called Mozilla Enhancements? -------- Original Message -------- From: Annabelle Susan Morison [mailto:foristnights@comcast.net] To: <main@jfw.groups.io> Date: Friday, March 27, 2020, 5:12 PM Subject: Firefox Is Not Responding Even NVDA is doing the same thing for me. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:07 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding make sure the bookmark list is closed. this hangs firefox when you open it with the virtual cursor on. have you tried n v d a? it seems to work better without hanging it. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:59 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I tried that, and it still hangs. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:51 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding the problem is this will not do a clean install. some of the settings are retained and not erased. have you tried a factory reset? the problem is this will also erase your bookmarks and passwords and screen colors if you changed them. but you hold down the shift key when you click on the desktop icon. this will bring up some options to try running it with add ons disabled. or resetting firefox back to the factory defaults. -----Original Message----- From: Don Mauck Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:50 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I think I would uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. -----Original Message----- From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:47 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Its Jaws scripts which enhance Jaws with a lot of neat features, but you have to buy it. I didn't realize you had old version of ff and Jaws. On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:41:18 -0400, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: Leasey? What's that? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of John Covici Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:30 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Do you have Leasey installed? On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:07:24 -0400, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: What's actually happening is, no matter what I do, it seems that when I open Firefox, everything freezes, and Firefox seems to hang. I press Alt+Tab to get to several other programs, and it works, because JAWS can read the other programs and they respond just fine, but when I Alt+Tab back to Firefox, it says "Firefox not responding". When I press Alt+F4, it says "Firefox is not Responding", or "Firefox has stopped working.". I press "Wait For The Program To Respond", and it still hangs on. I press "Close The Program", and it says "Windows is checking for a solution". What drives me really mad is this has been happening since February 14, 2020. Even worse, when I reopen Firefox, the whole vicious cycle begins again! What do I do next? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:18 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding there is 3 different ways to get to the book mark list. each method works differently. there is control shift b, this one closes the list as soon as you press escape. alt b. this one does not show all the bookmark links. control i opens the entire list of links and you have the option to search the entire list. it stays opened until you close it again with control i. but as i said both jaws and window eyes will hang when you open the bookmark list unless you turn off the virtual cursor first. or browse mode for window eyes. also the virtual cursor will turn back on every time you leave the bookmark list and will hang again when you press f6 to put focus back on the list. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:58 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I thought the shortcut to open the bookmarks menu was Alt+B. What does Control+I do? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:47 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding one thing with firefox. if you open the bookmark menu with control i without turning off the vertual cursor it will hang for over a minute before speech will come back. it does this with both jaws and window eyes. it does not with n v d a. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I actually go through an ethernet connection which has its main point at the headquarters of the apartment complex where I live. In fact, I unplugged the cable I have from the ethernet connection on the back of my computer, and I still get the same "Firefox is not responding", and it just hangs there with my whole machine frozen until I exit Firefox. What's up with that, I wonder? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:55 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding by unplugging the modem if you don't have it on a power strip. a few modems have a button you can press to disconnect from the net too. but you have to do this right after firefox has been installed. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:41 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I wonder if there's a way to change those options while the Internet connection is off. If so, how would I do this? -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison [mailto:foristnights@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:36 PM To: 'main@jfw.groups.io' Subject: RE: Firefox Is Not Responding Yes indeed I did. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:56 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding did you turn off the internet connection as soon as you re installed it? if you don't it will upgrade you as soon as you open it. you have to leeve your internet connection off until you turn off automatic updates and i also turn off the background services i think its called. this is in the same advanced settings area. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:32 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox Is Not Responding This is rather strange, since I can run it fine on this machine with Windows XP, same version (52.6.0), but I can't seem to run it on my Windows 7 machine since February 14 of this year. Before then, it was working fine. When I reinstall it, it automatically tries updating to Firefox 60, and I don't understand why, because I've turned off updates to Firefox. Has anyone else had this happen to them? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com .
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Re: QCast?
David Diamond
Q cast? I thought they shut down years ago. A few years ago I asked multiple times for technical help and got no response. I suspect they just took our money and ran.
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Re: Firefox Is Not Responding
Glenn / Lenny
And don't reconnect until the auto update is turned off in settings.
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Glenn
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From: "Marty Hutchings" <mhutchings152730@gmail.com> To: <main@jfw.groups.io> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 8:28 PM Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Try this one.
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Re: A couple of Jaws problems
Mike B
Hi Dennis,
Not sure yet on the delete key,
but, is the script being called by a keystroke or a function? Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool. Go dodgers! I didn't stop shaking hands because of, COVID-19, I stopped because noone can buy toilet paper! But, good news! Due to the hording of toilet paper the LA Times is temporarily changing it's name to: The Daily Wipe!
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From: Dennis
Brown
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:48 AM
Subject: A couple of Jaws problems Hi, How do I get the Delete key to say “Delete?” Second, When I put a script in MyExtensions.jss, then compile, then compile the default.jss (since it calls MyExtensions.jsb,) the script doesn’t work. If I put it directly in Outlook script file, it does. Other scripts in MyExtensions work, but some don’t. I’ve made sure the keystroke isn’t being used elsewhere, but still no go. Any ideas?
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Re: Firefox Is Not Responding
Marty Hutchings
Try this one.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/ef4vpwd7on1yp40/Firefox%20Setup%2052.0esr.exe?dl=0 Remember to disconnect your internet before installing. Love in Christ Marty For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:12, 13
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From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 7:11 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Yes I am uninstalling and reinstalling the same executable. How would I be able to tell if a file is corrupted? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Marty Hutchings Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Are you uninstalling and reinstalling the same Firefox executable? You may have a corrupted file. Go to Firefox site and get a new download. Save the executable, disconnect from the internet by removing the plug from your modem, install Firefox and turn off automatic updates then plug in your internet. Marty -----Original Message----- From: netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:04 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding i don't know now. for awhile the 64bit version would not even work with jaws 2020. i could not turn the virtual cursor on. Links still worked but that was all. Wen it reverted to the 32 bit version jaws started working. i installed firefox 64bit several times and every time it did a update it reverted me back to the 32 bit version. I have windows 7 64bit and windows 10 64 bit. in both cases i was reverted back to the 32 bit version when it updated. i have benn able to use the 64bit of the portable version so far. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:41 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding That's strange! How is the 64-bit version more unstable than the 32-bit version of Firefox 52.6.0? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 8:41 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding are you useing the 32 or 64bit version of firefox? the 64bit is more unstable then the 32bit version. even with jaws i had to go back to the 32bit version. it has been this way for years. even though i have the 64bit version of windows 7 and 10. i am also find that firefox does not crash as much when i use n v d a. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:07 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding What's actually happening is, no matter what I do, it seems that when I open Firefox, everything freezes, and Firefox seems to hang. I press Alt+Tab to get to several other programs, and it works, because JAWS can read the other programs and they respond just fine, but when I Alt+Tab back to Firefox, it says "Firefox not responding". When I press Alt+F4, it says "Firefox is not Responding", or "Firefox has stopped working.". I press "Wait For The Program To Respond", and it still hangs on. I press "Close The Program", and it says "Windows is checking for a solution". What drives me really mad is this has been happening since February 14, 2020. Even worse, when I reopen Firefox, the whole vicious cycle begins again! What do I do next? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:18 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding there is 3 different ways to get to the book mark list. each method works differently. there is control shift b, this one closes the list as soon as you press escape. alt b. this one does not show all the bookmark links. control i opens the entire list of links and you have the option to search the entire list. it stays opened until you close it again with control i. but as i said both jaws and window eyes will hang when you open the bookmark list unless you turn off the virtual cursor first. or browse mode for window eyes. also the virtual cursor will turn back on every time you leave the bookmark list and will hang again when you press f6 to put focus back on the list. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:58 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I thought the shortcut to open the bookmarks menu was Alt+B. What does Control+I do? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:47 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding one thing with firefox. if you open the bookmark menu with control i without turning off the vertual cursor it will hang for over a minute before speech will come back. it does this with both jaws and window eyes. it does not with n v d a. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I actually go through an ethernet connection which has its main point at the headquarters of the apartment complex where I live. In fact, I unplugged the cable I have from the ethernet connection on the back of my computer, and I still get the same "Firefox is not responding", and it just hangs there with my whole machine frozen until I exit Firefox. What's up with that, I wonder? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:55 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding by unplugging the modem if you don't have it on a power strip. a few modems have a button you can press to disconnect from the net too. but you have to do this right after firefox has been installed. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:41 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I wonder if there's a way to change those options while the Internet connection is off. If so, how would I do this? -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison [mailto:foristnights@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:36 PM To: 'main@jfw.groups.io' Subject: RE: Firefox Is Not Responding Yes indeed I did. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:56 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding did you turn off the internet connection as soon as you re installed it? if you don't it will upgrade you as soon as you open it. you have to leeve your internet connection off until you turn off automatic updates and i also turn off the background services i think its called. this is in the same advanced settings area. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:32 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox Is Not Responding This is rather strange, since I can run it fine on this machine with Windows XP, same version (52.6.0), but I can't seem to run it on my Windows 7 machine since February 14 of this year. Before then, it was working fine. When I reinstall it, it automatically tries updating to Firefox 60, and I don't understand why, because I've turned off updates to Firefox. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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Re: Accessibility of Vlc with Jaws?
David Griffith
As far as I am aware I don’t have any problem accessing preferences in VLC with either Jaws or NVDA. I just hit control P and tab through the options. It may be that there are parts I am missing that I am not aware of though? What is the problem for you? I have resisted upgrading to the absolutely latest version of VLC I am still on 3.0.7.1. I am glad others are still having a good experience with WinAmp. For me on several Windows installs on both my Desktop and Laptop I was experiencing lockup and crashes apart from the problem not playing some modern radio streams which VLC seemed to have no problem with. This experience made me personally think it was time to move on to something that was still being developed and supported. David Griffith
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From: JM Casey
Sent: 27 March 2020 16:35 To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Accessibility of Vlc with Jaws?
nVDA still won't read preferences etc though for me. Does it work for you? Otherwise, yeah there is certainly more feedback for status and things like that.
I have no trouble with Winamp and the latest build of windows 10, and I use it for audio -- but I play a lot of vieos and VLC is hands down the best player I have found for that. There's a lot of power under the hood and really I've only scratched the surface.
-----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: March 27, 2020 10:38 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Accessibility of Vlc with Jaws?
There are masses of keystroke which work with VLC - in particular I love the ability to speed up and slow down podcasts on the fly but I agree that there is a big gap for scripts providing information.
I have looked in vain for VLC scripts.
As a guide to what could be done you only have to load the NVDA VLC addon which completely transforms VLC information feedback. For example or all the information you require you only have to press the I key.
Often I quit Jaws when I am going to be using VLC as the experience is so much better supported.
to given that WinAmp is increasingly unsupported and to some extent obsolete, I moved to VLC as WinAmp kept on crashing under Windows 10, and failed to play some streams that VLC had no problem with, it seems utterly bizarre that Jaws provides no support for VLC at all.
David Griffith
-----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio Sent: 27 March 2020 11:54 To: Jaws for Windows support EMail List <main@jfw.groups.io> Subject: Accessibility of Vlc with Jaws?
Seems to me that Vlc with Jaws isn’t that accessible? I did a Jaws+h command, but I didn’t get any kind of help info. Can you with Jaws and Vlc, see how long the audio is, how much time Elapsed and other info, maybe with Jaws scripts? Thanks for experiences you guys might have with this combo.
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Re: Office.com with JAWS
Sharon Clark
Hello Shai, How do I enable the lite version of Office.com? Thank You, Sharon
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Re: QCast?
David Griffith
I think the best Podcast App for Windows is Speak On Media Suite. It has certainly been fuller featured than QCast for years.
I confess an interest as I am nearing the end of making a Podcast series on Speak On – ironically I was recording the first part of the 9th Podcast on the range of features in Speak On today actually focussing on the app’s abilities as a Podcast Reader. This should be ready in the next day or so. It actually has 3 Podcasts apps within it application.
The Suite also has what is, as far as I am concerned by a country mile the best featured ePub Book reader, far more featured than QRead, an Audio / Daisy Book app which again I think is the best featured audio book player. It is my preferred Audio Daisy Book reader more than FS Reader but it does not support text based xml formats. It also has a CD app for playing Audio and Daisy Audio CDs and also includes a full featured Music player. If you are in the UK it also integrates directly into the RNIB Newsagent service for downloading Newspaper and Magazines, again via an optional additional app Plugin downloadable within the app itself. As well as Tunein Radio there is a specialist optional VI Radio app and also in one of my Podcasts I show how the Other Media app can also be used as a third Internet Radio app using a downloadable Internet Radio folder playlist structure. It is very full featured I am constantly astonished at how little attention it has garnered over the few years. This is why I have been doing the Podcast series over the last few months demonstrating the capabilities of the app. The main obstacle people tend to have is that the app is self voicing and uses eSpeak as the default voice on install. However I show in my first Podcast this can easily be changed to a Sapi 5 voice to make the app sound far more friendly. There are a few other aspects of the app which take a little getting used to, the main one being that the confirmation OK or cancel options are in the alt based menu system rather than buttons on dialogues boxes. This is fine once you get used to it however.
David Griffith
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From: ann
Sent: 27 March 2020 22:02 To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: QCast?
Hi,
For years, I have used the QCast program to download or play podcasts, but although I was able to install and even activate it, it either won't download podcast episodes or in many cases won't even add the podcast at all.
Anyone have any suggestions or a suggestion for other programs?
Thanks,
~Ann
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Re: Firefox Is Not Responding
Annabelle Susan Morison
Yes I am uninstalling and reinstalling the same executable. How would I be
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able to tell if a file is corrupted?
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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Marty Hutchings Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Are you uninstalling and reinstalling the same Firefox executable? You may have a corrupted file. Go to Firefox site and get a new download. Save the executable, disconnect from the internet by removing the plug from your modem, install Firefox and turn off automatic updates then plug in your internet. Marty -----Original Message----- From: netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:04 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding i don't know now. for awhile the 64bit version would not even work with jaws 2020. i could not turn the virtual cursor on. Links still worked but that was all. Wen it reverted to the 32 bit version jaws started working. i installed firefox 64bit several times and every time it did a update it reverted me back to the 32 bit version. I have windows 7 64bit and windows 10 64 bit. in both cases i was reverted back to the 32 bit version when it updated. i have benn able to use the 64bit of the portable version so far. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:41 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding That's strange! How is the 64-bit version more unstable than the 32-bit version of Firefox 52.6.0? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 8:41 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding are you useing the 32 or 64bit version of firefox? the 64bit is more unstable then the 32bit version. even with jaws i had to go back to the 32bit version. it has been this way for years. even though i have the 64bit version of windows 7 and 10. i am also find that firefox does not crash as much when i use n v d a. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:07 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding What's actually happening is, no matter what I do, it seems that when I open Firefox, everything freezes, and Firefox seems to hang. I press Alt+Tab to get to several other programs, and it works, because JAWS can read the other programs and they respond just fine, but when I Alt+Tab back to Firefox, it says "Firefox not responding". When I press Alt+F4, it says "Firefox is not Responding", or "Firefox has stopped working.". I press "Wait For The Program To Respond", and it still hangs on. I press "Close The Program", and it says "Windows is checking for a solution". What drives me really mad is this has been happening since February 14, 2020. Even worse, when I reopen Firefox, the whole vicious cycle begins again! What do I do next? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:18 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding there is 3 different ways to get to the book mark list. each method works differently. there is control shift b, this one closes the list as soon as you press escape. alt b. this one does not show all the bookmark links. control i opens the entire list of links and you have the option to search the entire list. it stays opened until you close it again with control i. but as i said both jaws and window eyes will hang when you open the bookmark list unless you turn off the virtual cursor first. or browse mode for window eyes. also the virtual cursor will turn back on every time you leave the bookmark list and will hang again when you press f6 to put focus back on the list. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:58 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I thought the shortcut to open the bookmarks menu was Alt+B. What does Control+I do? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:47 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding one thing with firefox. if you open the bookmark menu with control i without turning off the vertual cursor it will hang for over a minute before speech will come back. it does this with both jaws and window eyes. it does not with n v d a. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I actually go through an ethernet connection which has its main point at the headquarters of the apartment complex where I live. In fact, I unplugged the cable I have from the ethernet connection on the back of my computer, and I still get the same "Firefox is not responding", and it just hangs there with my whole machine frozen until I exit Firefox. What's up with that, I wonder? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:55 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding by unplugging the modem if you don't have it on a power strip. a few modems have a button you can press to disconnect from the net too. but you have to do this right after firefox has been installed. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:41 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I wonder if there's a way to change those options while the Internet connection is off. If so, how would I do this? -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison [mailto:foristnights@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:36 PM To: 'main@jfw.groups.io' Subject: RE: Firefox Is Not Responding Yes indeed I did. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:56 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding did you turn off the internet connection as soon as you re installed it? if you don't it will upgrade you as soon as you open it. you have to leeve your internet connection off until you turn off automatic updates and i also turn off the background services i think its called. this is in the same advanced settings area. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:32 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox Is Not Responding This is rather strange, since I can run it fine on this machine with Windows XP, same version (52.6.0), but I can't seem to run it on my Windows 7 machine since February 14 of this year. Before then, it was working fine. When I reinstall it, it automatically tries updating to Firefox 60, and I don't understand why, because I've turned off updates to Firefox. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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Re: Firefox Is Not Responding
Mario
are you aware that NVDA has an addon called Mozilla Enhancements?
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From: Annabelle Susan Morison [mailto:foristnights@comcast.net] To: <main@jfw.groups.io> Date: Friday, March 27, 2020, 5:12 PM Subject: Firefox Is Not Responding Even NVDA is doing the same thing for me. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:07 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding make sure the bookmark list is closed. this hangs firefox when you open it with the virtual cursor on. have you tried n v d a? it seems to work better without hanging it. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:59 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I tried that, and it still hangs. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:51 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding the problem is this will not do a clean install. some of the settings are retained and not erased. have you tried a factory reset? the problem is this will also erase your bookmarks and passwords and screen colors if you changed them. but you hold down the shift key when you click on the desktop icon. this will bring up some options to try running it with add ons disabled. or resetting firefox back to the factory defaults. -----Original Message----- From: Don Mauck Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:50 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I think I would uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. -----Original Message----- From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:47 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Its Jaws scripts which enhance Jaws with a lot of neat features, but you have to buy it. I didn't realize you had old version of ff and Jaws. On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:41:18 -0400, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: Leasey? What's that? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of John Covici Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:30 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding Do you have Leasey installed? On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:07:24 -0400, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote: What's actually happening is, no matter what I do, it seems that when I open Firefox, everything freezes, and Firefox seems to hang. I press Alt+Tab to get to several other programs, and it works, because JAWS can read the other programs and they respond just fine, but when I Alt+Tab back to Firefox, it says "Firefox not responding". When I press Alt+F4, it says "Firefox is not Responding", or "Firefox has stopped working.". I press "Wait For The Program To Respond", and it still hangs on. I press "Close The Program", and it says "Windows is checking for a solution". What drives me really mad is this has been happening since February 14, 2020. Even worse, when I reopen Firefox, the whole vicious cycle begins again! What do I do next? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:18 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding there is 3 different ways to get to the book mark list. each method works differently. there is control shift b, this one closes the list as soon as you press escape. alt b. this one does not show all the bookmark links. control i opens the entire list of links and you have the option to search the entire list. it stays opened until you close it again with control i. but as i said both jaws and window eyes will hang when you open the bookmark list unless you turn off the virtual cursor first. or browse mode for window eyes. also the virtual cursor will turn back on every time you leave the bookmark list and will hang again when you press f6 to put focus back on the list. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:58 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I thought the shortcut to open the bookmarks menu was Alt+B. What does Control+I do? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:47 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding one thing with firefox. if you open the bookmark menu with control i without turning off the vertual cursor it will hang for over a minute before speech will come back. it does this with both jaws and window eyes. it does not with n v d a. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I actually go through an ethernet connection which has its main point at the headquarters of the apartment complex where I live. In fact, I unplugged the cable I have from the ethernet connection on the back of my computer, and I still get the same "Firefox is not responding", and it just hangs there with my whole machine frozen until I exit Firefox. What's up with that, I wonder? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:55 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding by unplugging the modem if you don't have it on a power strip. a few modems have a button you can press to disconnect from the net too. but you have to do this right after firefox has been installed. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:41 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding I wonder if there's a way to change those options while the Internet connection is off. If so, how would I do this? -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison [mailto:foristnights@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:36 PM To: 'main@jfw.groups.io' Subject: RE: Firefox Is Not Responding Yes indeed I did. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of netbat66 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:56 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Is Not Responding did you turn off the internet connection as soon as you re installed it? if you don't it will upgrade you as soon as you open it. you have to leeve your internet connection off until you turn off automatic updates and i also turn off the background services i think its called. this is in the same advanced settings area. -----Original Message----- From: Annabelle Susan Morison Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:32 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Firefox Is Not Responding This is rather strange, since I can run it fine on this machine with Windows XP, same version (52.6.0), but I can't seem to run it on my Windows 7 machine since February 14 of this year. Before then, it was working fine. When I reinstall it, it automatically tries updating to Firefox 60, and I don't understand why, because I've turned off updates to Firefox. Has anyone else had this happen to them? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com .
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Re: Zoom and Skype scripts?
Lino Morales
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From: Richard Turner
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:41 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Zoom and Skype scripts?
Doug Lee has several flavors of Skype scripts on his page; https://www.dlee.org/
Jonathan Mosen has made his audio tutorial for Zoom free and he also has a link on his page to get the basic zoom scripts free. Here is the link to the page where you can get the audio book followed by the link for the Zoom scripts. https://mosen.org/zoom/
Hartgen Consultancy have produced free JAWS scripts which enhance the Zoom Cloud Meeting experience even further. Download the free JAWS scripts. http://www.hartgen.org/zoom
We wish you health, safety, and very frequently-washed hands during these challenging times.
Richard "There's a nap for that." - an anonymous cat in a window in Portland, Oregon.
-----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:46 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Zoom and Skype scripts?
I think I heard or read somewhere that there are scripts for the Zoom conferencing Program? And Skype ones? Thanks for info.
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