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Re: Looking for a Windows talking clock

There is a Talking CooCoo clock on this Jaws scripts page: http://jaws-users.com/scripts/ Richard "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from

By Richard Turner <richardturner42@...> · #86950 ·

Looking for a Windows talking clock

Hi. I had two of these, but now I don’t, thanks to everything on my laptop being sucked into a black hole, never to be seen again. I’d like something that does announcements, and every fifteen

By Kevin Minor · #86949 ·

Re: microsoft edge download help

Hi again Jerry, I forgot to add that you can also turn off progress bar updating in Jaws quick settings, Insert + V, while in Edge. With Edge open press, Insert + V, and under General options is

By Mike B. · #86948 ·

Re: microsoft edge download help

Hi Jerry, With Edge open press, Insert + 6, on the number row to open the Settings Center for this application. Down arrow to, Users, and right arrow to open. Down arrow 1 time to, Progress bar

By Mike B. · #86947 ·

microsoft edge download help

When I am downloading from microsoft edge I get an alert of the minutes that are left in the download. The problem the alert is announce verbally and interrupt anything I am doing on my computer. I

By Jerry hathaway · #86946 ·

Re: reading without ads

This scenario is one use case for the JAWS Flexible Web feature. I would suggest looking up the details in the JAWS Help Topics. I don't know whether there are any tutorials or associated

By Jason White · #86945 ·

Re: reading without ads

I am not sure about Chrome or Firefox. However, Microsoft Edge has a feature called emersive reader. You click the f9 key and you can either scroll down to the beginning of an article and read using

By leonard morris · #86944 ·

Re: Why does JAWS think the scripts for LibreOffice are "Symphony?"

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 05:35 PM, Jason White wrote: I think the original program was StarOffice- It was. I just decided to pick up at Symphony since it appeared that this was the point when the

By Brian Vogel · #86943 ·

Re: Why does JAWS think the scripts for LibreOffice are "Symphony?"

I think the original program was StarOffice, released by Sun Microsystems as OpenOffice, and then IBM created a proprietary version called Symphony. I expect the scripts were originally

By Jason White · #86942 ·

Re: reading without ads

Ditto. It seems to be the same reader available on Firefox, as /F9 initiates the reader there. One little foible. The reader, at least the Immersive reader on Edge, don't always read an entire

By Jim Pursley <jim.goodgaia@...> · #86941 ·

Re: reading without ads

Using edge, if you hit f9, you get the imersive reader which so far has worked great for me. JM Casey wrote: -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you

By John Covici · #86940 ·

Re: reading without ads

OH, I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said – except I guess I do feel some – not guilt maybe, but reservations. It’s not enough to stop me from using an ad blocker, but simultaneously I

By JM Casey · #86939 ·

Re: reading without ads

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 02:09 PM, JM Casey wrote: the object of content providers is going to be finding cleverer and better ways of making sure we do see the ads, moving forward.- And the ad-blockers

By Brian Vogel · #86938 ·

Re: Where can I get Silenzio?

It was mentioned on Mosen's podcast and here is a link. http://www.stefankiss.sk/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=112 On 2/21/2021 14:34, Kevin Minor wrote:

By Chris Hill · #86937 ·

Re: reading without ads

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 03:37 PM, Chris Hill wrote: I prefer to send my data to nobody, or google, rather than microsoft.- Not that not wanting to share data doesn't make sense, but in the context

By Brian Vogel · #86936 ·

Re: Where can I get Silenzio?

Hello. Here's the link: http://www.stefankiss.sk/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=112 best. Enviado desde mi iPhone

By Francisco Salvador Crespo · #86935 ·

Re: reading without ads

I have never actually tried the emersive reader in edge. I prefer to send my data to nobody, or google, rather than microsoft.

By Chris Hill · #86934 ·

Where can I get Silenzio?

Hi. Something happened where things got corrupted so badly on my SSD, that nothing was there, Even Windows. I did have a backup, but some things weren’t there, including Silenzio. JAWS method of

By Kevin Minor · #86933 ·

Re: sending posts

so I guess there really is no preference to email either list?

By Mario · #86932 ·

Re: sending posts

Yes, I guess I thought whomever was running the JFW group was going to shut it down, and then along came the Main@ group. That is why I only send new messages I create to the Main@ group and probably

By Richard Turner <richardturner42@...> · #86931 ·

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