I use an external keyboard with my lap top. that way I don't inadvertently hit the touchPad. Some computers you can turn it off and on easily, but some you can't.

Hi again, Open Word. Press insert+v. Type foot in the search field. You should have two results. Arrow down and in my case I have: Comments, Footnotes, and Endnotes Detection On, Reading

That should have been, "over a decade now," not, "over a decade not." You can also modify an optical mouse on desktops by taping over the opening for the laser on the bottom so that you can have real

- Mark, My recommendation of over a decade not to every one of the clients I've tutored is NOT to disable the mousepad, because having real left and right click hard buttons is just so

Well, groups.io does use layout tables, so perhaps try turning off ignoring of layout tables in your screen reader and see if that works for you.. If not, I could see creating a javascript applet that

The issue with that is that Jaws isn't on that list.

David, I have just updated my tutorial, Searching the JAWS Group Archive, most of which is applicable to browsing and reading the regular Topics page for any given Groups.io group as well.

He meant just jawsKey plus v. The main thing is looking at the footnote options to have it read. I'm not at my computer right now to check the exact wording. Richard Software means never having to say

Hi all, I have come to really value the various Groups.IO lists related to accessibility, including this one. However, one thing that has always irked me is how clunky and inefficient navigation

I pressed the jaws key, 0 and then v. That doesn’t do anything. I then pressed jaws key o and v. That didn’t do anything. When Jaws reads your text below it says jaws key zero volt. Is that some

Yes, the issue is very annoying. After Dell does an update, a Dell update and not a Windows update, the mouse touch pad gets re activated. Go into control panel and under mouse you will find a setting

Hi. Thanks to my smart speaker, I learned of a way to disable the Mouse in Windows. I went to Device Manager, found my mouse, hit the applications key and disabled it that way. Now all I have to

I press the function key and F7 to turn off the touch pad. Then to turn it back on press function and F7 again. This is on an Acer laptop.

hi this is paul faucheux. is canvas accessible with jaws 2020 or 2021. i am going to be taking information communications technology courses at north shore technical community college. i previously

Don: As far as I know, Dell laptops are different. My understanding is that you have to go into the bios to turn off the mouse pad, and I've found that the setting often does not stick. Tom

On my HHP laptops there is a mouse setting to disable the touch pad if you have a physical mouse plugged in. I purchased a mouse with a small dongle and keep it plugged into a USB port.

Tom, I believe that there is a way to turn off the mouse in BIOS, but that's all I know. Perhaps a start. Pat Byrne

Mark: I have been using Dell laptops lately, and always try to turn off the mouse pad for the same reasons you suggest. However, I notice that sometimes the mouse pad gets turned back on

List, I have had numerous laptops over the years and the “mouse” area always causes problems… Often times I inadvertently touch the mouse area and JAWS loses focus. Do most users turn off

Turns out I didn't have a hot key set, which would explain why it didn't work. Thanks everyone!!