It does, thanks. It is nice to hear that has worked for others. We request just what you suggest this fall when school resumes... Sent from my iPhone

I agree entirely that my daughter's opportunity for success is much greater because she stands on the shoulders of those who came before her, and as she does so, she makes use of the tremendous

In short, no. There's a program called cash manager though that has been brought up on the various Jaws lists that is supposed to be fully Jaws accessible. You may want to check it out. I have not

Hi all, I am wondering if any of you use Quickbooks. Can you tell me if it is accessible with JAWS? If so, do I need a specific version? Thanks for any assistance, TerriLynne --------------

Richard, In my experience, it all depends on the teacher/ professor. In most cases the teachers try to be as helpful and accommodating as possible considering they probably have no prior experience

I second that my friend. Often I read Braille books I wouldn't have read had I been given the enormous choice available to the children these days. Reading them, however, taught me more than I would

While we're ruminating about ancient history it might not be amiss to remark on the terrible stupidity often evidenced by blind people raised on speech. It's downright embarrassing sometimes. I even

Doctor Tenbroek was born in 1911, not 1916. I apologize for the error. "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and

You don't. you write your paper in braille first, then when it's ready you type it for the teacher. (SIGH! Modern kids are SO soft! <grin> ) Back in the mid-fifties nobody had talking appliances,

When we typed on manual typewriters, with and without the language accent marks, in whichever languages we wrote, we kept in memory what we wrote, and accuracy was held high as a premium. We were

I don't think I follow you-- if you type a paper conventionally, how do you review / edit it? My daughter types in qwerty quite well, but if you're typing, unless you have a braille display and

Hi Ted, If you know how to use Unix systems you can use pdftohtml under Cygwin. Cygwin is a very nice Unix (mostly Linux) environment that runs under Windows. It's significantly slower than real

Aren't they teaching that anymore? I guess that does leave four years when I turned in my assignments in braille... -- Lee Maschmeyer "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might

Another factor about the high cost, is that compared to hiring people, a $7000 notetaker is relatively cheap. If you get two or three years out of one, that's just a couple thousand dollars a year for

Hi Rick, I'm assuming that you're running Jaws 12, 13, or 14 so, as Bill said, it's the Jaws Setting Center. To access the Settings Center do the following: 1. Press, insert + 6, on the number row

Can any of you recommend a good accessible converter that can handle PDF to HTML? AR once allowed a user to save to HTML, but that capability disappeared several years ago. I Googled one over

No this isn't true concerning the Taylor slate. I have one now. There are several type. Even if one lost a few there would be others to take the place of those lost. Then, of course, both could be

dear all, greetings today morning, i tried to create gmail account using firefox when i was creating i was not able to select the month, when the cursor goes towards the month feeld jaws is telling

Hi Richard Some how you accidentially turned on the pac mate desk top feature in the jaws startup options dialog box. To turn off the pac mate desktop software off just Go back in to the startup

Hi, Rick. He is talking about the Settings Center in JAWS. Thank you. Bill White billwhite92701@...