Hi all. I am getting a serious message when I try to open a PDF document in Adobe Reader on my Windows 8.1 laptop. The message goes like this Fatal Error Adobe failed to connect to DDE surver Then, at

Mitchell, That's a very good idea. I have found their training helpful in the past. I am so accustomed to Word that GoogleDocs will take some adjustments! Thanks, Lee Anne

What do you do to list objects? Best to you from, Carolyn

I'm definitely going to wait a while before getting this upgrade.

Lee Anne, FreedomScientific will hold a series of free webinars on Google Docs in August. I strongly recommend you sign up for these webinars at www.freedomscientific.com/training. Even if you

Thank you so much! I appreciate the input. Lee Anne

You can Try the JAWS OCR: insert-spacebar 'o' for OCR W for window, D for document, s for screen.

HelloEd: Try this line: TypeKey ("DownArrow") This compiled for me. You were missing the quotes around downarrow.

Greg, I should have waited for you to follow up before posting my reply. Let me just add, in case people don't recognize it, that pressing shift-F10 is the same as pressing the applications key.

After you've selected the item shift F10 to context then select "edit text" If there is any text there then you should be able to read it otherwise the objects most likely are pictures of text or

Kimsan, In that case, the chances are that the object you clicked on is a graphic or perhaps a photo. I had to deal with an objects problem a while ago, but I don't remember the details. Two

Hi Lee, The below link contains information regarding the use of Google Applications with assistive technology such as screen readers and

I did that. When I pressed enter on it, it just said it was selected and nothing else.

Try this. Control-shift-o creates a JAWS list of the objects. Pressing enter on an item in the list takes you to it.

I'm testing a scanning software, so my question is this. After scanning the document, it brings it up in word, I see all the text on the screen, but it says the document has 27 objects. I know how to

Is there a secret setting in either jaws or firefox to get them to work together? I have JAWS versions 5 to 11 and firefox 36 something. I have a windows xp pro and JAWS 8 on an IBM laptop that

thanks for the info! I'll probably wait for a while anyway.

Ok, I was 4cents over, it's 9.95. I'm going to purchase it. I became a huge fan of itunes in the past week.

Good afternoon all, I will be switching companies soon and much of their information is stored in Google Docs. I have never used this before nor Gmail nor Google Hangouts, so I am a complete