This can be a very useful option for braille users who want some speech but don’t necessarily want Jaws to speak everything and it was really designed with braille users in mind. It is not a useful

Or, Here is the quick and durty way to get JAWS to read the row and columb titles. 1. Place the curser at the beginning of the row and at the top of the columb that you want spoken. 2. To get Jaws

Pardon my error, that last technique is the "when I only want it during this session" method with JAWS. This is how to set them in the spreadsheet itself such that JAWS will recognize their

From a tutorial I put together for a former student. There is another way to do this via JAWS such that it "doesn't stick," but my client always wanted JAWS to read column headers (and, sometimes,

Hi tom, I agree with you regarding the Jaws cursor. At least in XP I was able to find some things with it, but as Jaws has progressed, or regressed, as the case may be, there is less and less

Good morning, I know this can be done somehow. How do you get JAWS to read the row and column headers in Excel? Thanks! All the Best, Brian Switzer

Thanks, Bill. I’ll have to explore this. Not sure how I’d use that yet, but it’s always good to know what JAWS is capable of doing.

Please again tell me where to find the hardware exceleration to check or uncheck? I was going to see what my setting is and forget where to find… Thanks…

For those who are using Outlook, and have been having trouble with ALT plus S followed by P to show the Send and Receive Progress, On some systems, the ribbon shortcut command has slightly

Well, maybe the issue is more complex than that? I only suggest this because I have been using and mostly loving Windows 10 for over two years now, and don’t really experience any of the problems

Hi, Robin. When JAWS is set to mute speech, speech is always muted. When JAWS is set to use Speech on demand, speech is usually muted, but JAWS will still speek when using commands such as, Say

Sieghard, The hot key works excellent. Thank you for the help. Rick

Sieghard, Are you able to articulate to me what Speech on Demand really does? Even without following the steps you and Bill each outlined, I was finding that the JAWS spacebar then S would mute my

I have encountered a similar situation, and have found it is the fault of another program that is interacting with my assistive technology. May want to see what other programs you have running that

Hi Bill, You are correct, I could have sworn that at one point this was a permanent change. Regards, Sieghard

no, that's why you should assign a shortcut to start JAWS. or if JAWS was pinned to the task bar, pressing the windows key plus the number of the position of JAWS will start JAWS. I have JAWS set to

Hi, Sieghard. This only works for the current session. If you restart JAWS or your computer, using SHIFT plus S does not make Speech Mute permanently the default behavior. Bill

Hi Bill, Just for your information, you can accomplish what you described also in the following way: 1. Press Jaws Key + Spacebar followed by S – this will turn on speech on demand 2. Now

Very interesting and, as you said, one of these weird and unique things which do happen.

No. But unless you are on my computer, the Jaws hotkey will launch Jaws if you have one set up. Otherwise, you can press Windows-key, plus r for the run dialog, and type jaws2019 and hit enter. None