I don't see a problem I think teaching the sighted about Access Technology is a cool thing. I even had my dad who is sighted use Talk Back on his phone but he said after a day he wanted no more to do

 I would make a different point about wearing blindfolds. In any situation, but especially the Blind service industry, the blindfolds typically are not worn for empathy, they actually are or should

Yes, AT instructors have to spend a week or two blindfolded so they can empathize and understand what it is really like. without doing this they aren't able to really understand what it is

in the first example, it is auto correcting the dash or hyphen into the HTML equivalent? just guessing.

I agree with Brian. At one of the guide dog schools, one of the days all students have to wear a blind fold or night shade from after Breakfast to supper. This is generally a total of 8 hours.

Thanks for the detailed guide for Defender. Stan

Well, unless there's some rule banning the sighted (in which case I should have been gone, long ago), I can't see this as a problem. I think it's an excellent idea for sighted individuals working in

Google docs is a world unto itself. Pressing Pressing ctrl+alt+z turns on screen reader mode. There are a number of JAWS webinars about using Google docs with JAWS, as well as information under

Hi, I know a teacher who would like to learn more about JAWS. I thought it might be good for her to come onto a listserv or two so she can ask questions and learn from us. Is that possible? She can

Thank you! Will that fix the fact that after the words are typed, they cannot be read back?

the first says "in dash". by line, word and letter. and the second doesn't say anything other than the two words by line and dash by word or letter. I wonder why it is adding the "N" sound

Kevin, Your first example does indeed say “On dash” when reading letter by letter, but doesn’t say anything when reading by line. The second example just says “Dash” when reading letter by

First, assuming he is using JAWS, be sure that the virtual cursor is turned off with insert+z.

Hi, I am helping a teacher and student team with Google Docs. The student is experiencing an issue where once he types something into Google Docs, he can’t read it back. Another thing that is

Hi again all, I've noticed that when I click on an email address on a website the message gets sent from my old email, other then going and manually changing it, is there any way to make the change so

Hi again all, I've noticed that when I click on an email address on a website the message gets sent from my old email, other then going and manually changing it, is there any way to make the change so

using Eloquence with JAWS, to me, it sounds more like en dash.

To echo what Bill pointed out, sighted readers will be a bit confused by someone using a simple hyphen between words since it is visually shorter in length, rather than the m Dash the autocorrection

Richard and Bill, thanks for your comments. We all learned something today! (Smile) Don

By the way, the n dash is a dash which is longer than a simple hyphen. By unchecking this check box in the autoformat tab, the hyphen is no longer replaced by the longer dash. This is why it no longer