Well, with Jaws 2021 the menus read fine. However, in case you didn’t know, the “Support assistive technology tools (program restart required) check box‑ checked‑ “ checks itself

Aha..so there is. I had forgotten about that. That still doesn’t make old JFW versions read the menus, but hey…yeah, make sure that’s checked.

I don’t know what this sluggishness might be dependent upon, but the experience you report is not mine. I do not remember modifying any settings in particular. I find Libre to be snappier than mS

You might want to check to make sure accessibility is set right in libre-ofice. I'm not having the issues you mention about sluggishness or something strange being spoken after character

Have you checked which version of Edge you have? Seems like everybody else wh o has tried this given the bank address you provided has no problem finding the submit button. In any case, have you tried

LibreOffice includes the following: Writer: Word Processor Calc: Spreadsheet Impress: Presentations (think PowerPoint) Base: Database Manager (think MS-Access) Draw: Diagram maker Math:

The first thing I heard Jaws saying when I opened the link for the bank was this: Alert! Press Alt+1 for screen-reader mode. Stop this message with Alt+0. I recently came across another website

Two things. I’m pasting the link to the help documentation online so you can read through its offerings. Also, it is very sluggish with both Jaws and NVDA. There is a dealy after each

Another NVDA list Subscribe: NVDAhelp+subscribe@groups.io

I went to the Libreoffice site but could not find out just what is included in this suite. I know it has word processing but what other aps are included? Thanks, Marie

At David’s recommendation, I install LibreOffice as an alternative when I might need a different program than the Microsoft Office. Jaws seems rather sluggish after opening a word document. I

Thanks to David, I went and looked at the LibreOffice web site. It is the successor to Open Office, according to their site, so yes, go with LibreOffice. Here is the

Hi. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are very similar and they may appear identical on the surface, especially for users of screen readers. However, OpenOffice has a very slow development cycle.

My 2 cents would be to call the Microsoft Accessibility desk. After all it’s a Microsoft product and who knows they may know of some weird settings or something that will make it work. Because

I would not depend on Google Docs. Open Office works fine until someone can get Word.I am not sure about the other one that has been mentioned Libre or something like that. Richard "You know," said

Hi. Have two issues using hyper v with narrator. When creating a vm, and then installing windows server 2019. Have not tried it with 2016. Narrator does not turn on, just hear caps lock on and off.

As the compatibility pack is an executable file you can just press the enter key while you are pointing to the file in order to install it. David Goldfield,Blindness Assistive

Hi. If you're referring to the Office Compatibility Pack you can read more about it and download it from this link. The Jarte documentation indicates that this pack was automatically

Thank you, David. I have one more question for you. How do I install it from downloads?

This is the one I use which seems to work with Jarte though I have not checked it is the latest. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dsmlacv59ark765/AADIQ655hImpM4FJ0kYMIEQBa?dl=1 Sent from Mail for