Hi, I grew up with Jaws from pre Jaws 4.0 days. Prier to that it was a little known piece of software called window bridge. I miss it. That being said, I don’t use one over the other. I use both

If you are looking for ebooks suitable for beginners who want to learn word processing, I recommend the National Braill Press. Their website is https://www.nbp.org . Even though they sell books in

Even better than Wordpad is the free Jarte word processor which is based on Wordpad, but adds other features like a spell checker: https://www.jarte.com/download.html

If you're just writing short notes or grocery lists, Notepad is the way to go but, yes, it will not maintain your formatting the way Wordpad will. My advice is to try to learn as much using Wordpad

I'm not sure if it works with MS word files, but another good free one is notepad ++. Glenn

I don't remember what they are, but there used to be programs that would convert docx files to things like rtf and txt. The issue is losing the formatting. Most of the time I use notepad. I keep

If you have Windows, you have Wordpad, and you should be able to open and read your ebook in that. To tell the truth, even though I have Word, I often just use Wordpad, or even Notepad, for most of my

Hi all. Thanks to everyone who answered my last email. I have another question. I might have a lot for a little while. I know Microsoft Word works well with JAWS, but I can't really justify the

Hi everyone! I just recently heard about this list, so this is my first post. I started losing my vision in 2010 and was declared legally blind two year later. I bought JAWS in December in 2013 and

Hi, To tag onto all the PDF conversations lately: Does anyone know how to highlight text in a PDF with Adobe pro? I am able to select, but I can’t find a way to highlight it. Adobe says that

Really? I have always clicked that "forward to IMap" command. when setting up GMail with outlook.

I use jaws mostly because NVDA wasn't available when I went blind (so out of inertia) and when I did try NVDA (last time was 2010 or so) I got _extremely_ upset with the NVDA development team and

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 12:26 PM, Ann Byrne wrote: Do I still have to tell GMail to forward mail to IMap, or will it detect that when outlook processes?- Ann, I'm not sure what you're asking here, as

Do I still have to tell GMail to forward mail to IMap, or will it detect that when outlook processes?

Hi James, I know that you've received lots of responses but I wanted to chime in anyway. When I first started learning to use a computer I was taught how to use Jaws; I tried NVDA but never really

Greetings: I will say that if a person needs help from the fine folks at NV Access, even if you purchase an hour of technical support time, it is just about impossible to get a human to contact you.

Hi James, The biggest draw-back with NVDA is that the object navigation, or screen review cursors don't read the screen as well as the Jaws cursor. In NVDA the screen review sticks in the wrong

Same here, I was a dedicated user of Window Eyes and I excepted the free JAWS after FS dropped WE. I am and older user and don't wish to learn another screen reader now. I do keep a copy of NVDA just

Hi Kestrell, Wow, you brought back memories. What is amazing to me is that just in the last couple of years the Noah radios just switched from those boards and voices to digital. Karen

Hmmmm, if you use jaws you use scripts, lol! Get Outlook for iOS From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Karen Reynolds <karenreynolds2061@...> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2022 9:34:15