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Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Mark

#95109

so it seems like there is no legend that lists what theses sorts of screen reader sounds mean, or how many there are.

battery

meow meow

#95108

Rosie here...

I just got new laptop computer

window 11 and Jaw 21

what hot key to check battery level?

my old laptop was window 7 and I did press instert and shift and pree b at the same time but my new computer won't can anyone know what or it change again

thanks

Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Mario

#95107

the sound is generated from the screen reader being used. in all cases, the sound is different when using NVDA, JAWS, or Narrator.

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-------- Original Message --------
From: Mario [mailto:mrb620@...]
Subject: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2022, 2:48 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Mark, hopefully someone can explain it better, but the sound you are
referring to is to alert you that the caps lock is on.

for example, you start typing normally and press the shift key with a
letter intending to capitalize it, but the keyboard beeps indicating
that you actually are temporarily making the letter that you pressed
simultaneously with the shift key lowercase, indicating that the caps
lock is on. therefore what you have typed up until pressing the shift
key might have been unknowingly capitalized.

-------- Original Message --------
From: Mark [mailto:mweiler@...]
Subject: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2022, 2:14 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
I checked, Bill, and yeah, some sounds are listed there. Thank you. But
in the case of the beep where the caps lock is on, then typing shift +
letter, that beep only happens when JAWS is on. Is there also a list of
what these JAWS sounds mean?

.

Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Mario

#95106

Mark, hopefully someone can explain it better, but the sound you are referring to is to alert you that the caps lock is on.

for example, you start typing normally and press the shift key with a letter intending to capitalize it, but the keyboard beeps indicating that you actually are temporarily making the letter that you pressed simultaneously with the shift key lowercase, indicating that the caps lock is on. therefore what you have typed up until pressing the shift key might have been unknowingly capitalized.

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-------- Original Message --------
From: Mark [mailto:mweiler@...]
Subject: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2022, 2:14 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
I checked, Bill, and yeah, some sounds are listed there. Thank you. But
in the case of the beep where the caps lock is on, then typing shift +
letter, that beep only happens when JAWS is on. Is there also a list of
what these JAWS sounds mean?

Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Bill White

#95105

Hi, Mark. I don't think there's a listing of what these sounds do.

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2022 11:15 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

I checked, Bill, and yeah, some sounds are listed there. Thank you. But in the case of the beep where the caps lock is on, then typing shift + letter, that beep only happens when JAWS is on. Is there also a list of what these JAWS sounds mean?

Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Mark

#95104

I checked, Bill, and yeah, some sounds are listed there. Thank you. But in the case of the beep where the caps lock is on, then typing shift + letter, that beep only happens when JAWS is on. Is there also a list of what these JAWS sounds mean?

Re: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Bill White

#95103

Hi, Mark. Most of these sounds are not JAWS-related, but, rather, Windows-related. If you want to know what a particular sound means, go to,

Control Panel>Sound>Sounds tab.

Each sound has an event associated with the sound. Once you look at the various events, you can tab to the name of the sound, and past that, there is a test button. When this test button is pressed, the sound associated with the event from which you just tabbed will be played.

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2022 9:13 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Can anyone explain what the various sound indicators mean in JAWS? For example, when I am typing and have the caps key on without knowing, and then I press shift and a letter, I notice JAWS beeps. I believe there's also some kind of chime sound to mean some kind of error or that it finds nothing. I haven't found any documentation that explains what these sound indicators mean so I'm kind of guessing.

What do the sound indicators, like beeps and chimes, mean?

Mark

#95102

Can anyone explain what the various sound indicators mean in JAWS? For example, when I am typing and have the caps key on without knowing, and then I press shift and a letter, I notice JAWS beeps. I believe there's also some kind of chime sound to mean some kind of error or that it finds nothing. I haven't found any documentation that explains what these sound indicators mean so I'm kind of guessing.

Re: Twitter question

Madison Martin

#95101

How do I get to settings?

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Afik Souffir
Sent: January 15, 2022 10:00 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Twitter question

Its under settings

Afik Souffir

Jaws certified, 2021

Www.freedomscientific.com/training/certification/

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Madison Martin <Madison.Martin2000@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2022 5:58:30 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Twitter question

Hi all,
Is it possible for me to change the email address associated with my Twitter
account? If so then how do I do this? I looked under profile but couldn't find
anywhere to change it. Using latest versions of Jaws and Windows 10. Thanks
Madison

Re: Twitter question

Afik Souffir

#95100

Its under settings

Afik Souffir

Jaws certified, 2021

Www.freedomscientific.com/training/certification/

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Madison Martin <Madison.Martin2000@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2022 5:58:30 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Twitter question

Hi all,
Is it possible for me to change the email address associated with my Twitter
account? If so then how do I do this? I looked under profile but couldn't find
anywhere to change it. Using latest versions of Jaws and Windows 10. Thanks
Madison

Twitter question

Madison Martin

#95099

Hi all,
Is it possible for me to change the email address associated with my Twitter
account? If so then how do I do this? I looked under profile but couldn't find
anywhere to change it. Using latest versions of Jaws and Windows 10. Thanks
Madison

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Curtis Chong

#95098

Greetings:

In Adobe Reader, press Alt e and up arrow to preferences. Press Enter.

Arrow to Enhanced Security and tab. Ensure that protected view is not checked.

Curtis

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gezim Rexha
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 10:42 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Could you please instruct me step-by-step how to change those preferences?

On 12 Jan 2022, at 17:33, Curtis Chong <chong.curtis@...> wrote:

Greetings:

I don’t understand how you can paste something into Word from Acrobat Reader which JAWS is not detecting. It is highly possible that Acrobat Reader is displaying the PDF in protected view. This is a setting you can change in the Acrobat Reader preferences.

Kindly,

Curtis Chong

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gezim Rexha
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 7:22 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

I have the latest JAWS, but it is not doing the automatic OCR, because I don’t think that the document is an OCR image, and that is what I find it strange that JAWS is not reading it. What I did was that |I selected and pasted the document to MS Word, and then I was able to read it. Any idea what should I do to make JAWS recognize it?

Best regards,
Gezim

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of M Tobia
Sent: e martë, 11 janar 2022 16:46
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Assuming that you are running a recent version of Jaws and are using Adobe Reader to open the PDF file, Jaws will perform an automatic OCR and attempt to read the context of the document to you.

I know that Jaws 2021 and 2022 will do the automatic OCR. I am not certain how far back you need to go when this feature was built into the program.

I had this problem in the past and FS had me perform a Jaws repair and the problem was resolved. Jaws recognizes that the PDF is a scanned image and attempts to perform an OCR to read the context of the image to you.

Good luck,
Mario

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Justin Williams
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:33 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

How do you ocr a document with adobe?

Justin

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Curtis Chong
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:03 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Cc: JFWList <JFW@groups.io>
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

JAWS should have prompted you to OCR the document. If it did not, something else is going on.

On Jan 11, 2022, at 5:38 AM, Gezim Rexha <gezim_rexha@...> wrote:

Hi list,

I opened an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document, and JAWS says blank. How can I make JAWS recognize it?

Cheers,
Gezim

Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

Mario

#95097

I would like to know as well. I have an account and have a frustrating time navigating the UI. A tech said they would email me some docs explaining what to do since I rely on a screen reader to access my account, but I never received the docs. If anyone knows of any tips, hints or other info, please do tell.

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-------- Original Message --------
From: tom x [mailto:ballistic719@...]
Subject: another issue with my outlook.com account
Date: Friday, January 14, 2022, 6:51 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Hi Afik,


I also use outlook.com and find the site very difficult to navigate with
the latest version of Jaws.


What did you do to Jaws and/or the outlook.com site to make it accessible.


Thanks

Tom


On 15/01/2022 5:12 am, Afik Souffir wrote:
Its very accessible. I have outlook.com myself.


Afik Souffir
Jaws certified, 2021
Www.freedomscientific.com/training/certification/
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*From:* main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Madison
Martin <Madison.Martin2000@...>
*Sent:* Friday, January 14, 2022 9:11:44 PM
*To:* main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
*Subject:* Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

No, I have trouble navigating the site

*From:*main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> *On Behalf Of *Afik Souffir
*Sent:* January 14, 2022 1:10 PM
*To:* main@jfw.groups.io
*Subject:* Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

Did you check in outlook.com settings?

Afik Souffir

Jaws certified, 2021

Www.freedomscientific.com/training/certification/
<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedomscientific.com%2Ftraining%2Fcertification%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C126973d5b4dd4644bfab08d9d791ae54%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637777842967239529%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=jq%2F23WG07WELOx3H%2FnZF%2Fy46P1nBbF2V4sgnF9CNsPk%3D&reserved=0>

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*From:*main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Madison
Martin <Madison.Martin2000@...>
*Sent:* Friday, January 14, 2022 9:07:41 PM
*To:* main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
*Subject:* another issue with my outlook.com account

Hi all,
It would seem that every time I send a message there are two copies in
my sent
folder, any idea how I can stop this from happening? Using latest
versions of
Jaws, Office 365 and Windows 10. Thanks Madison

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Milton Ota

#95096

Hi,

If for some reason your Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is not opening a PDF file it is because Secure enhanced mode is not Checked.

Here is how to get to it:

Pull down the Edit Menu;

Arrow up to Preference; and press Enter;

Arrow down to Security (Enhanced Mode);

Tab once and press the spacebar if the checkbox is not check;

Tab to OK and try again to Open the file by Closing the Reader and re-Opening the file.

Also under Accessibility you should be using the default settings.

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gezim Rexha
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:42 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Could you please instruct me step-by-step how to change those preferences?

On 12 Jan 2022, at 17:33, Curtis Chong <chong.curtis@...> wrote:

Greetings:

I don’t understand how you can paste something into Word from Acrobat Reader which JAWS is not detecting. It is highly possible that Acrobat Reader is displaying the PDF in protected view. This is a setting you can change in the Acrobat Reader preferences.

Kindly,

Curtis Chong

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gezim Rexha
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 7:22 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

I have the latest JAWS, but it is not doing the automatic OCR, because I don’t think that the document is an OCR image, and that is what I find it strange that JAWS is not reading it. What I did was that |I selected and pasted the document to MS Word, and then I was able to read it. Any idea what should I do to make JAWS recognize it?

Best regards,
Gezim

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of M Tobia
Sent: e martë, 11 janar 2022 16:46
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Assuming that you are running a recent version of Jaws and are using Adobe Reader to open the PDF file, Jaws will perform an automatic OCR and attempt to read the context of the document to you.

I know that Jaws 2021 and 2022 will do the automatic OCR. I am not certain how far back you need to go when this feature was built into the program.

I had this problem in the past and FS had me perform a Jaws repair and the problem was resolved. Jaws recognizes that the PDF is a scanned image and attempts to perform an OCR to read the context of the image to you.

Good luck,
Mario

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Justin Williams
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:33 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

How do you ocr a document with adobe?

Justin

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Curtis Chong
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:03 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Cc: JFWList <JFW@groups.io>
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

JAWS should have prompted you to OCR the document. If it did not, something else is going on.

On Jan 11, 2022, at 5:38 AM, Gezim Rexha <gezim_rexha@...> wrote:

Hi list,

I opened an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document, and JAWS says blank. How can I make JAWS recognize it?

Cheers,
Gezim

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Gezim Rexha

#95095

Could you please instruct me step-by-step how to change those preferences?

Show quoted text

On 12 Jan 2022, at 17:33, Curtis Chong <chong.curtis@...> wrote:

Greetings:

I don’t understand how you can paste something into Word from Acrobat Reader which JAWS is not detecting. It is highly possible that Acrobat Reader is displaying the PDF in protected view. This is a setting you can change in the Acrobat Reader preferences.

Kindly,

Curtis Chong

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gezim Rexha
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 7:22 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

I have the latest JAWS, but it is not doing the automatic OCR, because I don’t think that the document is an OCR image, and that is what I find it strange that JAWS is not reading it. What I did was that |I selected and pasted the document to MS Word, and then I was able to read it. Any idea what should I do to make JAWS recognize it?

Best regards,

Gezim

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of M Tobia
Sent: e martë, 11 janar 2022 16:46
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

Assuming that you are running a recent version of Jaws and are using Adobe Reader to open the PDF file, Jaws will perform an automatic OCR and attempt to read the context of the document to you.

I know that Jaws 2021 and 2022 will do the automatic OCR. I am not certain how far back you need to go when this feature was built into the program.

I had this problem in the past and FS had me perform a Jaws repair and the problem was resolved. Jaws recognizes that the PDF is a scanned image and attempts to perform an OCR to read the context of the image to you.

Good luck,

Mario

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Justin Williams
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:33 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

How do you ocr a document with adobe?

Justin

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Curtis Chong
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:03 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Cc: JFWList <JFW@groups.io>
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document says blank

JAWS should have prompted you to OCR the document. If it did not, something else is going on.

On Jan 11, 2022, at 5:38 AM, Gezim Rexha <gezim_rexha@...> wrote:

Hi list,

I opened an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC document, and JAWS says blank. How can I make JAWS recognize it?

Cheers,

Gezim

Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

Alan Lemly

#95094

Well, I've been using Outlook since the late 1990's and that has never
happened to me.

Alan

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-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill White
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 9:20 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

Hi, Alan. Yes, I am sure of this. I did not say that this would always
occur. I said that it is one of the reasons that it can occur.

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 6:44 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

Bill,

Are you sure about this? I send many emails to multiple recipients in the cc
and bcc fields and I always only have one sent message in my Outlook 2019
Sent Items folder for these messages.

Alan Lemly

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill White
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 2:16 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: another issue with my outlook.com account

Hi, Madison. There are a few reasons that you can have multiple messages for
the same message in your Sent folder. If you put recipients in your CC or
BCC fields, you can have a Sent message for each of those recipients. If you
reply to a message, and that reply goes to multiple recipients, you can have
a Sent message for each of those recipients in your Sent folder.

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Madison
Martin
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:08 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: another issue with my outlook.com account

Hi all,
It would seem that every time I send a message there are two copies in my
sent folder, any idea how I can stop this from happening? Using latest
versions of Jaws, Office 365 and Windows 10. Thanks Madison

Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Bill White

#95093

Hi, Chris. I do not have an "Open With" option when I press an Internet shortcut. What I have is the following,

Context Menu‑

To navigate press Up or Down Arrow.

O

Open

o

Print

p

Copy as path

a

Restore previous versions

v

Send to sub menu‑

n

Cut

t

Copy

c

Create shortcut

s

Delete

d

Rename

m

Properties

r

In my Send to submenu, I have,

Send to sub menu‑

n

Bluetooth device

b

Compressed (zipped) folder

c

selected

Bluetooth device

b

Compressed (zipped) folder

c

Desktop (create shortcut)

d

Fax recipient

f

Mail recipient

m

TeamViewer

t

So, I don't know where I would find the Open With option. This option is usually only seen when I have highlighted a file, not a shortcut.

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Chris Chaffin
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 8:05 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

After hitting shift f10 on the shortcut, do you have an Open With choice in the shift f10 menu?

If so, you should find different browsers that you have installed to choose from.

Chris

On Jan 14, 2022, at 10:55 PM, Bill White <billwhite92701@...> wrote:

Hi, Tom. Where is this "Sent to Browser" command with SHIFT plus F10? I have a "Send To" command, but nowhere in that selection list does it give me an opportunity to send the URL to a browser? Where did you encounter this?

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of tom x
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 4:47 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Hi Curtis,

Interesting way for handling favorites.

However, pressing enter on the shortcut would always load that particular url into the same default browser. Is there a way, apart from using the shift F10 "sent to" command, of chooseing which browser into which to load the url at that time?

i.e. Sometimes a site may work better using Firefox rather than Edge while another may function better in another browser altogether.

Thanks

Tom

On 13/01/2022 2:24 am, Curtis Chong wrote:
Greetings everyone:

I thought it might be helpful to the group if I passed along a solution for managing website favorites which works across all of the Windows browsers I have worked with over the years: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge.

First, I created a folder within My Documents called Favorites. There is nothing magical about the name of the folder. You can call it anything you like. This is where you would store any Favorite that you create.

Second, using Edge or any other browser, go to the web page for which you would like to create a favorite or shortcut. Press ALT+D or CTRL+L (it really doesn't matter) to move the focus to the address bar. Since the URL contained in the address bar is already highlighted (selected), press CTRL+C to copy the URL to the Windows Clipboard.

With File Explorer, open the Favorites folder you have created. Press CTRL+SPACE a couple of times to ensure that nothing is selected. JAWS should tell you when the line item is not selected.

Now, press Shift+F10 to open up a context menu and up arrow to New. Press right arrow to open the submenu and press down arrow to Shortcut. Press Enter.

Paste the URL you copied earlier into the edit field and tab once to type a name for the Shortcut. Then, press Enter.

That's all there is to it. Any time you want to manage or go to a favorite, use File Explorer first to locate the favorite and then press Enter to activate it.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Chris Chaffin

#95092

After hitting shift f10 on the shortcut, do you have an Open With choice in the shift f10 menu?

If so, you should find different browsers that you have installed to choose from.

Chris

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 10:55 PM, Bill White <billwhite92701@...> wrote:

Hi, Tom. Where is this "Sent to Browser" command with SHIFT plus F10? I have a "Send To" command, but nowhere in that selection list does it give me an opportunity to send the URL to a browser? Where did you encounter this?

Bill White

billwhite92701@...

From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of tom x
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 4:47 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Hi Curtis,

Interesting way for handling favorites.

However, pressing enter on the shortcut would always load that particular url into the same default browser. Is there a way, apart from using the shift F10 "sent to" command, of chooseing which browser into which to load the url at that time?

i.e. Sometimes a site may work better using Firefox rather than Edge while another may function better in another browser altogether.

Thanks

Tom

On 13/01/2022 2:24 am, Curtis Chong wrote:
Greetings everyone:

I thought it might be helpful to the group if I passed along a solution for managing website favorites which works across all of the Windows browsers I have worked with over the years: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge.

First, I created a folder within My Documents called Favorites. There is nothing magical about the name of the folder. You can call it anything you like. This is where you would store any Favorite that you create.

Second, using Edge or any other browser, go to the web page for which you would like to create a favorite or shortcut. Press ALT+D or CTRL+L (it really doesn't matter) to move the focus to the address bar. Since the URL contained in the address bar is already highlighted (selected), press CTRL+C to copy the URL to the Windows Clipboard.

With File Explorer, open the Favorites folder you have created. Press CTRL+SPACE a couple of times to ensure that nothing is selected. JAWS should tell you when the line item is not selected.

Now, press Shift+F10 to open up a context menu and up arrow to New. Press right arrow to open the submenu and press down arrow to Shortcut. Press Enter.

Paste the URL you copied earlier into the edit field and tab once to type a name for the Shortcut. Then, press Enter.

That's all there is to it. Any time you want to manage or go to a favorite, use File Explorer first to locate the favorite and then press Enter to activate it.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Curtis Chong

#95091

Hello Tom:

The advantage is that the approach is browser agnostic, meaning that for each browser, the user does not have to learn a different procedure for managing Favorites.

Kindly,

Curtis Chong

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of tom x
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 8:35 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Hi Curtis,

The steps you outlined seems quite cumbersome and am wondering what advantages there are over, say, saving the url into the favorites list in each browser.

However, I do like the idea of having all the favorites in a single folder and am wondering if the process could be made much simpler by using a auto hot key macro or similar. I'll have to give this some thought.

Cheers

Tom

On 15/01/2022 11:11 am, Curtis Chong wrote:

Tom:

You can clip the URL to the Clipboard and then use the run command:

Msedge for Microsoft Edge,
Chrome for Google Chrome, and
Firefox for Mozilla Firefox.

Then press space and paste in the URL. Press Enter.

Curtyis

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of tom x
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 5:47 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: My Nerdy Approach to Creating and Managing Favorites

Hi Curtis,

Interesting way for handling favorites.

However, pressing enter on the shortcut would always load that particular url into the same default browser. Is there a way, apart from using the shift F10 "sent to" command, of chooseing which browser into which to load the url at that time?

i.e. Sometimes a site may work better using Firefox rather than Edge while another may function better in another browser altogether.

Thanks

Tom

On 13/01/2022 2:24 am, Curtis Chong wrote:
Greetings everyone:

I thought it might be helpful to the group if I passed along a solution for managing website favorites which works across all of the Windows browsers I have worked with over the years: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge.

First, I created a folder within My Documents called Favorites. There is nothing magical about the name of the folder. You can call it anything you like. This is where you would store any Favorite that you create.

Second, using Edge or any other browser, go to the web page for which you would like to create a favorite or shortcut. Press ALT+D or CTRL+L (it really doesn't matter) to move the focus to the address bar. Since the URL contained in the address bar is already highlighted (selected), press CTRL+C to copy the URL to the Windows Clipboard.

With File Explorer, open the Favorites folder you have created. Press CTRL+SPACE a couple of times to ensure that nothing is selected. JAWS should tell you when the line item is not selected.

Now, press Shift+F10 to open up a context menu and up arrow to New. Press right arrow to open the submenu and press down arrow to Shortcut. Press Enter.

Paste the URL you copied earlier into the edit field and tab once to type a name for the Shortcut. Then, press Enter.

That's all there is to it. Any time you want to manage or go to a favorite, use File Explorer first to locate the favorite and then press Enter to activate it.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

Re: Salesforce and Technology Roundtable, and Nonprofit Trail grou fpr Salesforce

Jeff Lukacsena

#95090

Hi rod,

Yes, I remember you from a while ago.

I will send you the schedule and Zoom invite later tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks,

Jeff Lukacsena

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rod
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 6:45 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Salesforce and Technology Roundtable, and Nonprofit Trail grou fpr Salesforce

You can add me at:

rodalcidonis@...

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jeff Lukacsena
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 12:37 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Salesforce and Technology Roundtable, and Nonprofit Trail grou fpr Salesforce

Hello List,

I wanted to post this message here.

I host two different Salesforce meeting groups.

First and third Friday at 4:00 p.m. Eastern

Nonprofit Trail for Salesforce

Second and fourth Friday, 4:00 p.m. Eastern

Salesforce and Technology Roundtable

If you are working with Salesforce, or just want to discuss you are welcome to join the group.

Please e-mail me a brief message abour yourself.

Then, I will provide a Zoom link and add you to my group list.

Thanks,

Jeff Lukacsena