Removing the icon from the desktop is not removing the program. It's just a shortcut. Glenn

But keeping an older version of JAWS is sometimes handy. Such as a discontinued feature or your current version goes screwy. I don't call that making things complicated? Paul

I've been using JAWS for windows for quite some time and not once do I remember instalation automaticallys etting up a hotkey; I had to do it myself. I currently don't even bother with a jaws hotkey,

Or, you know, just delete the jaws 2020 desktop shortcut before you install j2021. Or assign it a different hotkey before you install. Gosh, people make things seem so much complicated than they are

They dropped it earlier than that. The trouble was if you have say CTRL+ALT+J setup on JAWS 2020 and upgraded to 2021, the shortcut CTRL+ALT+J would open JAWS 2020 not 2021. To make it open JAWS 2021,

Hi all, It is easy to load and unload both screen readers once you have them setup correctly. By default both JAWS and NVDA have a keyboard shortcut to shut them down: JAWS: Insert + F4 NVDA:

Boy, you had me worried there, I have already been wrong twice this year and it's only just August! Had I been wrong with this there would have been no more room if I wanted to end this year with no

You are right. They dropped it I think with either Jaws 2021 or 2020. There were too many complaints about Jaws not respecting the hotkey setting when updating and such. I forgot about that because

Hi Richard, I might be wrong here, but I don't think the Jaws shortcut has a default shortcut associated with it. Of course it's easy to do by going to the properties of the shortcut on the desktop

I believe that the original hotkey for NvDA is alt+control+N.

Literally. The only thing the desktop is useful for for a blind person is creating hotkeys.

Check to see if there is a desktop shortcut. This is what allows you to create a hotkey. You can do this yourself by going into the properties of the shortcut (press alt-enter or use the context

Great. I am able to use 3 out of the 4 that Richard mentioned. Just not control+alt+j to turn jaws on. Rahul -- -- Rahul Bajaj Senior Resident Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi,

Also you may be aware of this already, but your message seems to suggest you might not be -- if you have both programmes on your desktop you can assign hotkeys to load them. NVDA does this by default;

Jaws: Jaws key plus f4 Control alt j NVDA: NVDA key plus q Hope this helps!! Control alt n

Screenreader-key plus f4 for jaws. Screenreader key + q for nvda. By default you have to press enter in both programmes after executing the keystroke to confirm that you want to quit the

Jaws default hotkey to close Jaws is insert+f4. There is a setting that you can make it so there is no confirmation, it just goes away. Otherwise, there will be an OK to hit confirming you want to

Sorry. What are their shutdown and loading hotkeys? I am not aware of these. Rahul -- -- Rahul Bajaj Senior Resident Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India Rhodes Scholar (India

Hi. As these programmes are not designed to work together, there's no toggle or anything, if that’s' what you're after. But why are you going to the desktop? That does seem like an unnecessary

Both have the option to shut down without confirmation, so the respective shutdown hotkeys and loading hotkeys would be quite seamless.