Hi all! Have you tried it with JAWS or NVDA?

Hi all! What is the difference between (real) text and (photo) text? I need to know so that I can explain it myself. I have to deal with this sort of garbage myself in my own technical work and I

Hi all! I would try installing NVDA because it’s a free screen reader and it’s actually better than Windows Narader. Since you are trying to install JAWS, I would totally install NVDA first so

Hi, Rick. The first thing you should try is: After pressing ENTER, press JAWS key plus ESCAPE to refresh the screen. See if this brings the scan History into view. Bill White

Dear Listers: I have just recently updated Windows 10, and have also updated Windows Defender, my antiviral program. When I try to examine the scan history, JAWS will not work. When I get to the

Hi, Tom. There is a program called Silenzio which is supposed to keep the sound card from going to sleep. Try downloading it from the following link. Download Silenzio here Bill White

Many sighted people genuinely don't know the difference between photo-text and 'real' text (as we may call it), unless it is explained to them. .JPG files can vary quite a bit in resolution, which

If you are sure that a jpg file has text, you can OCR it with the onboard OCR in JAWS. Using the application key and highlighting the jpg file, press the letter j and it should work.

I've seen it recently discussed on the echoing list. main+subscribe@echoing.groups.io It is a list for blind and visually impaired users of the Amazon line of Echo products. Merv

Bill: It happens with Narrator too. I’m not sure what to do from here. Tom Behler

Hi, Tom. Try turning on Narrator, and see if you get the same delay through Narrator. If so, you might have one of the sound cards which go to sleep frequently, and need to be awoken by key presses.

Hello, everyone. As some of you may remember, I’m continuing to set up a new Dell Windows 10 computer with Jaws. The computer has an Intel I7 processor, 16 gigabytes of ram, a 12 gigabyte

John, try pressing insert+spacebar, o, f. I'm not sure if the JPG needs to be opened with an image editor like Paint or the OCR commands can be issued on the file without opening it first. the

Hi all, This is Michael. Last time I FS changed the access code for the Openline and I was not pro active Ofcourse I learned my lesson this time and can someone provide a vallid access code for the

Amen!! And essentially the same questions, where the answer on one would apply on another, get asked on multiple lists at once. Defragmentation should be a goal, but alas, it's not. -- Brian -

Actually, my church uses a software which allows text layout as in a magazine, and the contents are not readable by a screen reader because they are captured as images. The reason for this is to

Does anyone have a list of alexa commands or know where to find the list?

They are only images, yes. But sometimes they are images of text. Why anybody would do that is beyond me, unless of course someone took a picture of--for example--a label and wanted to send it to

Which version of JAWS do you have? I think the function was added in JAWS 18, but it might have been 2018.

 Hi John, I thought the, Recognize with Jaws, feature came out with Jaws 18 but, it didn't come until Jaws2018. You could also try using Openbook to extract any text from the file as well. With