If by normally, you mean in Acrobat Reader, you need to go into the program default settings and set PDF’s to Acrobat. Or, if you have a PDF on your computer, put focus on it, use the Applications

Good morning: In the past few days, when opening a pdf file on my laptop, it opens in Google Chrome and goes through the typical options when opening a pdf file while in Google Chrome, giving me

- That works if you hit CTRL + U, type the text you want underlined then hit CTRL + U again when you reach the end of that text. But a lot of people (including me), for whatever reason, don't do our

- What do you mean by that, exactly? The default behavior is to capitalize the beginning character of sentences or paragraphs if they are accidentally left uncapitalized. In a word processor, you

List, I am having difficulty with the concept of Address book and Contacts. Is there a discernable difference or are they synonymous? Thanks in advance, Mark

HI, Windows 11 and Big Sur user here! My piece of advice, if you like to learn new things, just take the plunge, the learning curve was not Herculean labor for me because in trying new gadgets and

Hi, Marilyn. To rid yourself of unwanted capitalization, 1. Open Microsoft Word. 2. Press ALT followed by the letters F, then T. 3. Arrow down to Proofing. 4. Press SPACE on the AutoCorrect

Hello all, Out of the blue I’m now getting the comment “auto correct” every time my cursor goes to a new line and the first letter of that word is automatically capitalized. How do I get rid

Looks like I might have to do that. Probably remote in and see what's up. Justin

I know it is the weekend but have you tried tech support at Freedom Scientific or even calling the Microsoft Accessibility help desk? I’m also wondering what might be your display brightness set

Agreed, Takis. Your method works if you know ahead of time that you intend to underline certain text, and I’m glad you brought it up. I typically make such decisions after the fact, which is why

Hi Adrian, The way I do it is, after finishing with the underlined or bolded text, I hit control-u once again. Jaws should say “underline off”.

Hi Jim/all, Just highlight the word with control-right arrow and press control-u. This should do the trick. Hope it helps,

Judy, I use a Mac every day and have since 2012 (when I first went blind). Typically I use keyboard shortcuts as a way of controlling my Mac but you can use the trackpad just as you would an iPhone.

So, even though I did uncheck smart read, I am still having the same problem with JAWS not reading when I read by word. It may read some of them, but they it still won't say anything when I read word

Hi Judy. As far as I can remember from using peoples max over the years it is different than using the iPhone because of the keystrokes and because there’s a lot more interaction need to do with the

The screen readers are very different for Mac OS relative to both JAWS and NVDA. Even very different from iOS VoiceOver. Ryan -- Michael Ryan Hunsaker, M.Ed., Ph.D. (he/him) NLS-LOC Certified UEB

Hi Jim, Try the following: 1. Open the Settings Center, Insert / Jaws Key + 6, on the number row and press, Control, Shift + D, to open default all applications. 2. Arrow down to, Web / HTML /

Judy, I will allow others who may be using MacOS and iOS to comment in detail, but the differences between any smartphone/tablet OS, and any desktop/laptop OS, is vast. iOS skills do not, in my

Brian, I understand your point, but this is my question. Lots of us have iPhones and use windows. Since I am so used to doing a lot on my iPhone, since it is the same OS as a Mac computer, how much