Hi all,

I am attempting to create a shortcut on my windows 10 desktop. The

directions say to remove focus from a particular icon and move it to

the desktop either F5 or alt spacebar should work. But when I try

these key combos then use jaws key plus tab to verify, I find focus is

still on the icon where I started. I seem to be unable to move to the

desktop itself.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Kim

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Kimberly

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:49 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Changed Bookmark Link In Firefox

Tom,

           Under Firefox, CTRL+SHIFT+B brings up the bookmarks manager (which, oddly enough, has the window title "Library").  The structure of the Bookmark Manager is very, very much like File Explorer.

           If you don't happen to open with it in the "From Internet Explorer" list of bookmarks, then Shift+Tab back over to the tree view, get yourself to that group, then tab back over in to the actual bookmarks list for that group.  Locate the bookmark for the page you need to edit.  Since I have no idea what you've called it or how it's stored I can't get more specific about what to search for.  Once you've landed on it, you can then hit Tab and start moving through the edit boxes for a bookmark:

1. Name
2. Location (the URL itself)
3. Tags
4. Keyword

I have never bothered with tags or keyword.  You will, of course, want to select all in the Location edit box and paste in the corrected URL.  There is no save button.  Just make sure to tab out of the field you've edited to make sure it "sticks" and you can then ALT+F4 to close the Bookmarks Manager window.
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Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763  

   Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

         ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

Hi all,

Here is the problem :

I got two braille displays : One Baum VarioUltra 20 for mobile use outside my office, and one Papenmeier Braillex EL66S on my desk.

If I configure Jaws to use the Braillex EL as default braille display, it won’t detect my Varioultra at all, even if I plug it in after having unplugged the Braillex or even if I start Jaws while Varioultra is plugged and Braillex is unplugged.

When I set the Varioultra as default braille display, the VarioUltra is correctly detected at jaws startup and then, I can unplug it and plug it back again, it will be automatically detected when it is available. Then, if I unplug the VarioUltra and plug the Braillex, the Braillex will be detected and used. However, if I then unplug the Braillex and plug the Varioultra back again, it won’t be detected. I need to shutdown Jaws completely and start it again with Varioultra set as default braille display.

I noticed this for the first time with Jaws 2018 but this is still the case now with Jaws 2019. So my question is:

Is this a problem due to the combination of those two specific braille displays or is it a more general problem when using Papenmeier braille display alternatively with others, or is it a still more general problem of using two different brands of braille displays?

Many thanks in advance for any advice. Have a nice week-end. Chris D

They definitely won't send you a USB stick which is also an authorization dongle every two years. As long as I have used Jaws I'd have a lot of these by now. I don't even think this should come with an expectation to lower the price of an SMA, chances they are sending these free matter for the blind anyways, but a DVD is a few cents if you buy large quantities and shipping is probably a buck in the US and a bit more to Canada, outside of North America it's probably the third-party distributors responsibility anyways and I certainly wouldn't think a $1 or $2 reduction of the SMA makes sense, but as I pointed out before, it's the waste which bugs me.

-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Isaac
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 8:20 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: JAWS 2019 disc

How about a usb stick with the installer that also acts as a dungle this
will cut there license feas to sentenal and thus they can reducee the price.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don H" <lmddh50@adams.net>
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: JAWS 2019 disc

So do you think they will lower their price for a SMA if you get no disk?
I bet Not.

On 11/21/2018 10:09 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:

As I said, all I am asking is for Vispero to send out a one-question
survey to all their SMA holders and ask them: Do you want to continue
receiving a physical DVD?" and there should be two radio buttons given
for the answer, Yes and No. Those who answer Yes are flagged
appropriately in the Vispero database and will continue to receive their
DVD and those who say No will not. This really should not be so
difficult.

*From:* main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> *On Behalf Of *Michael
Munn
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2018 9:37 AM
*To:* main@jfw.groups.io
*Subject:* Re: JAWS 2019 disc

I called Vispero yesterday and they said the shipment for the SMA
will be shipping Nextweek due to some delay.

I don't think it's a good idea to discontinue the Disk shippment. I
prefer receiving my SMA

via DVD.

You are right the waste of resource

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 1:58 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Changed Bookmark Link In Firefox

Tom,

            All I can tell you is that Firefox has been rock solid stable for all the years and versions I've been using it.

            What follows is not aimed personally, but it is a general observation:  Virtually always these "weird issues" and "odd problems" stem directly from operator error of some sort.  The trick is figuring out what that operator error happens to be.

             I've been around this block more times than I care to count with more types of software I care to count.  While bugs can and do account for some small fraction of "weird errors" it is a small fraction.
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Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763  

   Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

         ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

I’m working with MS Word 2016/Office 365.  One of my clients requires edits be reviewed in tracked changes but that the documents are typed in an older word format *.doc instead of *.docx.

 

I’m coming back into the workforce fulltime after being out for over a year – first on maternity leave beginning last year mid-Fall, and then spending nearly the first year of my daughter’s life taking care of her more fulltime than anything else.

 

The client I’m working with has me typing attorneys’ notes – No problem.  However, working with tracked changes, while I used ot be a wiz at this, either I’ve forgotten something or things have radically changed in the past 15 months.  I haven’t done this in a while.  Can anyone help me with a refresher on working with, reviewing, and reading tracked changes in MS Word with JAWS?

 

Sincerely,

Loreal Lavigna

Legal/Medical Transcriptionist

PHONE:  (518)330-5188

E-MAIL:  LorealLavigna@...

WEBSITE:  http://www.facebook.com/TranscriptsByLorealTranscripts By Loreal

 

I also use the touch cursor because I find that it works better than
OCR in many situations.

On 11/9/18, Ben Humphreys <brhbrhbrh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Keith,

One thing I've noticed about Windows 10 -- the Jaws cursor is
becoming increasingly less functional. I find I have to resort to
OCr more often than in the past.

But there's a lot to like too, such as a much-improved Narrator
(which works even when Jaws crashes).

I think the Ribbon-based Explorer is more cumbersome.

Also, a lot more Tabbing when in Windows configuration screens.

Nothing that's a deal killer, but I do miss how well the Jaws cursor
worked back in Windows 7 and XP days.

Ben

At 02:05 PM 11/8/2018, you wrote:

Hi,

I use a work computer which is still running Windows 7. We have now,
finally, been given an opportunity to upgrade from Windows 7 to
Windows 10, with a no return to Windows 7 policy once upgraded.

Is there any reason to not upgrade to Windows 10? This will be an
upgrade on an older computer, and not a replacement computer, if
that would make a difference.

Using the latest JAWS.

Thanks in advance. Keith

So do you think they will lower their price for a SMA if you get no disk?
I bet Not.

On 11/21/2018 10:09 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:

As I said, all I am asking is for Vispero to send out a one-question
survey to all their SMA holders and ask them: Do you want to continue
receiving a physical DVD?" and there should be two radio buttons given
for the answer, Yes and No. Those who answer Yes are flagged
appropriately in the Vispero database and will continue to receive their
DVD and those who say No will not. This really should not be so
difficult.

*From:* main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> *On Behalf Of *Michael
Munn
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2018 9:37 AM
*To:* main@jfw.groups.io
*Subject:* Re: JAWS 2019 disc

I called Vispero yesterday and they said the shipment for the SMA
will be shipping Nextweek due to some delay.

I don't think it's a good idea to discontinue the Disk shippment. I
prefer receiving my SMA

via DVD.

You are right the waste of resource

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:49 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Changed Bookmark Link In Firefox

Tom,

           Under Firefox, CTRL+SHIFT+B brings up the bookmarks manager (which, oddly enough, has the window title "Library").  The structure of the Bookmark Manager is very, very much like File Explorer.

           If you don't happen to open with it in the "From Internet Explorer" list of bookmarks, then Shift+Tab back over to the tree view, get yourself to that group, then tab back over in to the actual bookmarks list for that group.  Locate the bookmark for the page you need to edit.  Since I have no idea what you've called it or how it's stored I can't get more specific about what to search for.  Once you've landed on it, you can then hit Tab and start moving through the edit boxes for a bookmark:

1. Name
2. Location (the URL itself)
3. Tags
4. Keyword

I have never bothered with tags or keyword.  You will, of course, want to select all in the Location edit box and paste in the corrected URL.  There is no save button.  Just make sure to tab out of the field you've edited to make sure it "sticks" and you can then ALT+F4 to close the Bookmarks Manager window.
--

Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763  

   Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

         ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore