I've stayed out of this, but couldn't resist any longer. Blind people have some very distinct advantages. Among many, two are: 1. No temptation to look at your feet when ballroom dancing; and 2. No

Cy, Thanks! And did you notice that even the spell-checker foiled me in my use of the word "complete" where it should have been "completely"? Ah, well, even if tastefully composed, not carefully

Dave, Excellent advice. Cy

Hi, There is no excuse for *not* learning touch typing. The secretaries all have to touch type because they are looking at their short hand to see what they are supposed to say. 660 words per minute

One more suggestion for combo boxes that is saving me torment on another website. Instead of pressing enter to confirm the selection, press alt+up arrow, then the PC cursor key. Sometimes pressing

Well Dave! I'm a deaf blind fella. So have got to carry these things about anyway. With my braille note DBC I pretty much have the whole package all in one machine. But my point is simply one size

Thank you, Juan, this worked like a charm. I think I get so locked into doing things the same way that I can get myself flummoxed. I am still using IE 8 as I didn't think I could use IE 9 with my

Hi, I have been using eBay for 12 years and sometimes it helps to use insert and escape.

Cristal: To avoid the problem, try this way: 1. Press the C key to jump between the combo boxes. 2. When You reach the combo that you want interact, press alt plus down arrow to open it. 3. With the

Hi, i am using the latest version of Jaws 13 with Windows SP sp 3. I was looking at an item on ebay. There is a combo box to select a size option. Usually I press enter on the box and then an

Jack, And yes it's true that I could carry a separate speech synthesizer with me wherever I go, or a scanner, as well for OCR. But when it comes to traveling, I prefer as few add-ons as possible.

Ah DAVE! But one easily can. Or even can easily. There are portable braille dispays with braille keyboards built right into them. You got your new foccus forty blue and fourteen You got your

Jack, Having dexterity on a Braille keyboard is excellent, but when you're in the outside world, you would have to carry your keyboard with you in case you ever need to work on a machine away from

Ali, 1. When I turn on virtual ribbons, navigating the menus, JAWS doesn't say the shortcut keys so that I can memorize for later faster menu choosing. Is there a JAWS key stroke so that I can use to

And for the second part, with the long description, what choice have you made for the Verbosity setting? To check that if you aren't sure, hit jaws+6 then type "Verbosity level" in the search bar.

Yes and then there's carpal tunnel syndrome which you might get from forming your fingers into all those unnatural shapes for years and years. Your fingers weren't MEANT to be scrunched UP like

I can type well enough! Should from all the typing lessons I took in school. Dad had a fuul glass. He was GLAD! Got to where I wanted pop dear old dad upside the head with his full glass. But I have

Well I just joined up again and I haven't seen any duplicates from old Chris. May I ask a actual by GOD windoze question on here?? I'm having firewall issues but doan woan get yelled at. Old Jack

Interesting I am not getting duplicates. Regards Tom Bisset

Hi, did you try bringing Jaws to the focus, press alt, down arrow once to options, press enter, the first set of boxes you land on will give you some options for how Jaws speaks menus. Maybe this