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restoring settings
Don H
So for some reason my Jaws 2020 got corrupted and I had to uninstall it along with the settings to get to work again. I have a backup file of my settings but don't know how to use it to restore my settings. Can anyone give me step by step instructions to do this?
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Re: Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders?
Annabelle Susan Morison
I think this ended up as a duplicate
email.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:21 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders? Well, are they in an odd format, or standard mp3 or .wav or windows media, etc.? If so, GoldWave has a nice file merge feature that is completely accessible. You would use the Tools menu and select File Merge and then add the folder and if they are in order already, it can put them into one file for you. There is a fully functional demo, or if you decide to use it on an ongoing basis it is only $50, or so.
Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Hi, it's Annabelle. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I wonder, are any of these programs accessible to screenreaders like JAWS? These are freewares that are used for splitting and merging files. The reason why I ask this is because I have these files I'm trying to recover, specifically Sonar projects that I didn't get the chance to back up, and what I notice is that each big file has been divided into 46 fragments, all sequentially numbered. This happened on a hard drive that my friend, Markus and I formatted quite by accident in 2015, the first time when we were restoring my machine back to working order. I've used ICare Data Recovery Pro, which I purchased for $71.99 from http://www.icare-recovery.com, and that is where I discovered these files and folders I'm trying to recover are in 46 fragments. Or should I leave this recovery job to Drivesavers? https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/file-splitters.shtml
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Re: Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders?
Annabelle Susan Morison
Some are .wav, some are .mid.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:21 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders? Well, are they in an odd format, or standard mp3 or .wav or windows media, etc.? If so, GoldWave has a nice file merge feature that is completely accessible. You would use the Tools menu and select File Merge and then add the folder and if they are in order already, it can put them into one file for you. There is a fully functional demo, or if you decide to use it on an ongoing basis it is only $50, or so.
Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
Hi, it's Annabelle. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I wonder, are any of these programs accessible to screenreaders like JAWS? These are freewares that are used for splitting and merging files. The reason why I ask this is because I have these files I'm trying to recover, specifically Sonar projects that I didn't get the chance to back up, and what I notice is that each big file has been divided into 46 fragments, all sequentially numbered. This happened on a hard drive that my friend, Markus and I formatted quite by accident in 2015, the first time when we were restoring my machine back to working order. I've used ICare Data Recovery Pro, which I purchased for $71.99 from http://www.icare-recovery.com, and that is where I discovered these files and folders I'm trying to recover are in 46 fragments. Or should I leave this recovery job to Drivesavers? https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/file-splitters.shtml
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Re: Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders?
Richard Turner
Well, are they in an odd format, or standard mp3 or .wav or windows media, etc.? If so, GoldWave has a nice file merge feature that is completely accessible. You would use the Tools menu and select File Merge and then add the folder and if they are in order already, it can put them into one file for you. There is a fully functional demo, or if you decide to use it on an ongoing basis it is only $50, or so.
Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Annabelle Susan Morison
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:06 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders?
Hi, it's Annabelle. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I wonder, are any of these programs accessible to screenreaders like JAWS? These are freewares that are used for splitting and merging files. The reason why I ask this is because I have these files I'm trying to recover, specifically Sonar projects that I didn't get the chance to back up, and what I notice is that each big file has been divided into 46 fragments, all sequentially numbered. This happened on a hard drive that my friend, Markus and I formatted quite by accident in 2015, the first time when we were restoring my machine back to working order. I've used ICare Data Recovery Pro, which I purchased for $71.99 from http://www.icare-recovery.com, and that is where I discovered these files and folders I'm trying to recover are in 46 fragments. Or should I leave this recovery job to Drivesavers? https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/file-splitters.shtml
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Re: Identifying emojis with braille displays?
JM Casey
Which makes sense. Can you imagine trying to represent emojis with actual braille symbols? We already have enough obscurity with special typefaces and other things -- iE, "bold", "italics" and such in braille are really just special "brackets" and the print terms themselves are meaningless in braille, but we want to show them anyway (and we should) -- but go too far down that slope and you have endless layers of representation that are just obfuscative and confusing, especailly for beginners.
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Whether emojjis are "spokeN" or not really depends on a lot of different factors -- chiefly the screen-reader being used, but also the software used to isplay those emojis in the first place. Imo emojis are a bit of a dead end, despite what goofy stuff like 'The Emoji Story" might try to tell you.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill Tessore Sent: July 22, 2020 4:25 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Identifying emojis with braille displays? I am a literary braille transcribing student through the NFB. personal experience and the manual both confirm the answer to your question is no. typically anything of that sort must be identified and described in a transcribers special symbols note. hope this helps. Shalom, Bill Tessore On Jul 22, 2020, at 12:57 PM, ann <tate886@gmail.com> wrote:
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JAWS2020 Feature for Stopping Jaws from Cutting Off Speech, FSCast 186
Mike B
Hi All,
Thought some of you might be interested in this
FSCast.
Note: The part of the FSCast that pertains only to this
Jaws feature is at the bottom, below the 2 links.
New post on Freedom Scientific Blog
FSCast 186, Blindness consultant Joe Strechay, a new Freedom
Scientific Training podcast, and a demo of the JAWS feature to prevent speech
cut off
by FSCast On FSCast 186, we meet blindness consultant and TV producer
Joe Strechay who helps ensure that blind people are accurately portrayed
in media. There’s
news about the new Freedom Scientific training podcast, and Jonathan Mosen drops in with a demo of the new JAWS feature to prevent speech cut off with Bluetooth headphones and some sound cards. Click this link to listen:
To read the full transcript click the link below:
Jaws feature part of the transcript:
Over the last couple of months we’ve been talking
about the new JAWS feature that prevents speech from being cut off when
listening using Bluetooth headphones
or listening on certain laptops. Fortunately, I don’t have the problem. So it’s been really hard for me to demonstrate it. But turns out that longtime FSCast host Jonathan Mosen does. He has an HP Spectre Folio that shows off this problem really easily. Jonathan was kind enough to send us an excerpt from his Mosen at Large podcast, where he shows off the new JAWS feature at work. So Jonathan, it’s all yours. Excerpt from Jonathan Mosen’s Mosen at Large podcast JONATHAN MOSEN: Let me demonstrate the
problem so you can hear what this is like by just running JAWS without this new
enhancement that I want to show
you enabled. So I’m going to press a shortcut key that I have assigned to JAWS. JAWS VOICE: Ows professional. Desktop. Folder view. List view. Not selected. Recycle bin. One of 33. JONATHAN: There you go. You can actually hear it right away. It sort of said “ows Professional” because I’ve been sitting here with my laptop making no sound, and it just woke up. Even this pause is long enough for me to demonstrate the problem. If I check the window title, “sktop One,” and you can hear that it missed the beginning of “desktop.” So it sort of said “sktop One.” I’m going to run Microsoft Word. JAWS VOICE: tana. JONATHAN: You can really hear it. My soundcard driver has actually recently gotten worse at this issue, and it’s now hibernating very quickly. I have my keyboard echo turned off, which probably exacerbates the problem. But I just don’t need my keys echoing back to me. I’m going to type “This is a test” and now read the current line. JAWS VOICE: “Is a test.” JONATHAN: Right? So you missed the first word entirely there. JAWS VOICE: “Is a test.” JONATHAN: Is a test. If I do it quickly enough, if I read the same line twice quickly... JAWS VOICE: “T H I S. This is a test.” JONATHAN: So as long as I’m quick enough, and I keep the soundcard alive, I can hear what I’m doing. Now, of course if you’re navigating word by word, this is a real issue. I’ll go to the top of the file and now move slightly slowly, word by word. JAWS VOICE: [Indiscernible small portions of each word “this is a test”] . JONATHAN: It’s really difficult to hear; isn’t it. How do we fix this? It’s very easy with the latest build of JAWS to address this. I’m going to go into the Settings Center. And you can do that by pressing the JAWS KEY with F2 to get to the list of managers, if you like. But JAWS seasoned users, or those who just are shortcut ninjas will know that you can go into the Settings Center by pressing the JAWS KEY with the number 6 on your number row. JAWS VOICE: JAWS Setting Center dialog. Search box edit. CTRL+T. JONATHAN: The first thing we need to do is load the default configuration because this setting applies across the board to JAWS. To do that, I’ll press CTRL+SHIFT+D for default. JAWS VOICE: JAWS Setting Center default applications. JONATHAN: We’re now in an edit field where we can search for JAWS settings. You can fossick around the tree view here to your heart’s content, and you’ll find just how configurable JAWS is. But I’m going to type the word “cut,” C U T. That’ll be enough. And I’ll press the TAB key. JAWS VOICE: Search results list box. Avoid speech cutoff when using Bluetooth headphones or some soundcards, not checked. JONATHAN: And there’s an option here called “Avoid speech cutoff.” And I’m going to press TAB, which will get me into the Help for this feature, and do a JAWS Say All to hear the full description. JAWS VOICE: Bluetooth headphones and speakers shut down after a while of not receiving sound to conserve battery. If this checkbox is selected, JAWS will keep them awake by constantly playing silence. You will not hear anything, but your device will remain active, resulting in more consistent speech. Note that the battery of your headphone/speakers could drain faster if you turn this on. This checkbox is cleared by default. JONATHAN: I must say I have not found anything substantial in the way of battery drain by enabling this feature. The HP Spectre Folio laptop that I have has phenomenal battery life. I mean, depending on what I’m doing, it can be anything from five or six hours if I’m doing really aggressive tasks like audio editing, all the way through to 12, 13, 14 hours or more if I’m just doing a bit of basic word processing. I’ll SHIFT+TAB. JAWS VOICE: Search results list box. Avoid speech cutoff when using Bluetooth headphones and some soundcards, not checked. JONATHAN: And I’ll check this box. And now I’m going to exit Settings Center by pressing ALT+F4. JAWS VOICE: JAWS Settings Center dialog. You have made changes to default application settings. Do you want to save them? Yes button, Alt+y. JONATHAN: Yes, I do. I’ll press ENTER to accept. JAWS VOICE: Document, one word, edit. JONATHAN: Miraculously, now everything has cleared up. Night and day, mate. Night and day. So if I press the JAWS KEY with T to read the window title... JAWS VOICE: Document, one word, print. JONATHAN: And it’s fine. JAWS VOICE: Document, one word, print. JONATHAN: I read a Say line. JAWS VOICE: This is a test. JONATHAN: And everything is working fine. So it’s a very simple thing. It’s just a little checkbox, but it makes the world of difference to people like me who are using particular Realtek sound drivers. One thing to note: There is a tradeoff with this. Because JAWS is sending sound to the soundcard at all times – it’s essentially just sending silence to keep it awake – that means that the soundcard is always on, so audio ducking is affected. You will unfortunately have to make a choice between whether JAWS ducks the audio or whether this feature is on. By “ducking” audio I mean that you can have JAWS now slightly turn down what you’re listening to. If you have music on in the background while you’re working, JAWS will turn that down a little so that you can better hear your speech. You can’t have that and this feature enabled at the same time. For me, the user experience has improved so much by enabling this checkbox that I’m glad to forsake the possibility of audio ducking.
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Re: Identifying emojis with braille displays?
Bill Tessore
I am a literary braille transcribing student through the NFB. personal experience and the manual both confirm the answer to your question is no. typically anything of that sort must be identified and described in a transcribers special symbols note. hope this helps.
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Shalom, Bill Tessore
On Jul 22, 2020, at 12:57 PM, ann <tate886@gmail.com> wrote:
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bluetooth keyboard question
Dean Martineau <topdot@...>
Hello. Does there exist a Bluetooth keyboard with function keys separated in groups of four, a numeric keypad and a context menu key? In other words, with the functionality and appearance of a good old standard Windows keyboard?
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Are Any Of These Accessible To Screenreaders?
Annabelle Susan Morison
Hi, it's
Annabelle.
I've been thinking
about this for a while, and I wonder, are any of these programs accessible to
screenreaders like JAWS? These are freewares that are used for splitting and
merging files. The reason why I ask this is because I have these files I'm
trying to recover, specifically Sonar projects that I didn't get the chance to
back up, and what I notice is that each big file has been divided into 46
fragments, all sequentially numbered. This happened on a hard drive that my
friend, Markus and I formatted quite by accident in 2015, the first time when we
were restoring my machine back to working order. I've used ICare Data Recovery
Pro, which I purchased for $71.99 from http://www.icare-recovery.com, and that
is where I discovered these files and folders I'm trying to recover are in 46
fragments. Or should I leave this recovery job to Drivesavers? https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/file-splitters.shtml
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Identifying emojis with braille displays?
Hi folks,
Using braille, is there anyway to identify emojis? Of course, when I'm just using speech output, the characters are correctly spoken. But so far, on my Orbit 20 Plus display, all I see for emojis is two full braille cells side by side. I've figured out this is an emoji, but have no idea what it is without invoking speech. I'd have to pull it out and connect it to test, but I think this also happened on my old RB18. Is there anyway of identifying emojis using a braille display? Thanks, ~Ann
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Re: Bypassing the log on screen in Windows 10 20-04
Randy Barnett
To Turn Off the Password Entry Requirement under Win8 or Win10 Note: Anybody who turns the computer on can get into the desktop screen directly if there is only one account on the computer. If there is more than one then they can get access to the desktop by selecting any account that has password login turned off. Please follow the below steps to skip the password entry screen for a specific account: 1. Open the Run Command box by simultaneously pressing Windows Key and R keys (Windows Key+R). In the Run dialog box, type Netplwiz and then press Enter key. OR Open a Command Prompt window and enter the command: control userpasswords2 and hit Enter. 2. You will be presented with the User Accounts dialog, select the user account for which you wish to turn off password login and then uncheck the checkbox labeled Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer. 3. Click Apply button to see Automatically sign in box. 4. On the "Automatically sign in box" confirm your credentials and then click OK. Restart the computer and check. Steps 3 and 4 are critical. If you omit them you will not have the password login turned off and everything will remain as it had been. CAUTION: If you do the above, and decide to change your password, make sure you follow the instructions above to change it as outlined above before you restart your computer again or you will have effectively locked yourself out, as your automatic sign in will fail because it still has your old password.
On 7/22/2020 4:27 AM, Dave Durber
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Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Mike B
Here's how to use the graphics labeler:
Creating a Graphic Label Manually
To practice creating a Graphic Label, use HJPad. To launch HJPad go to Start, Programs, JAWS X (where X is the JAWS version number), Run HJPad. Using the Graphics Labeler is easy, but before you start ensure that you have speak graphics verbosity turned on. Follow these steps to be sure: With HJPad open, press INSERT+V to bring up the Verbosity dialog box. Press G to move to the Graphics Verbosity item in the list box. Press the SPACEBAR until you hear JAWS say, "All graphics," and then press ENTER. Now that all graphics will be spoken, you are ready to find a graphic to label. Press the NUM PAD MINUS key to activate the JAWS cursor. Tip: To navigate to the toolbar, first press PAGE UP to move to the top of the window, and then press HOME to move to the top, left. Use the arrow keys to move to the first toolbar button. You will hear, "Graphic XXX." XXX can indicate any number. Press INSERT+G to open the Graphics Labeler. When the Graphics Labeler is opened, the focus is in the edit field, where you should enter the label for the graphic. It will contain the graphic number. Press the delete key to remove the number then, type the name for your graphic. Press the TAB key to move to the Braille label field. Here you can enter a label for a Braille display. Next press the TAB key to move to a group of radio buttons that will let you determine where you want to save the label, in the application file, default file, or both files. Choose the application file. Press ENTER to activate your graphic label. Note: To edit a graphic label, use the same procedure that you would to create a new graphic label, and just change the name of the label in the Graphics Labeler when it opens. To delete a graphic label, do the same, but delete the name in the Graphics Labeler. Using the Auto Graphics Labeler The Auto Graphics Labeler assigns a text label to all graphics that are associated with ToolTips. A ToolTip is a brief description of a graphic that appears on the screen as you point to the graphic with your mouse. To activate the Auto Graphics Labeler, open the desired application, and press CTRL+INSERT+G. JAWS will attempt to label all graphics. Do not move the mouse or press any keys on the keyboard until JAWS states that the Auto Graphics Labeler is finished. When JAWS finishes, it will announce the newly labeled graphics. After using the Auto Graphics Labeler, you can use CTRL+INSERT+SHIFT+G to bring up the Select Graphic to Click Dialog box. With this dialog box, you can use your arrow keys to move through the available graphics, and then press the TAB key to move to the OK button and press ENTER to activate the graphic you selected. Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool. Go
dodgers!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws. >Ye, that might work, if only I could actually label the graphic. You can, Pat. Just route the JAWS cursor to each of the graphics and label them with insert+G. If the numbers that appear as graphics are displayed in different permutations each time you visit the site, the labeled graphics will be read as they appear, which makes them quite flexible. Custom labels are not used for labeling graphics; they're for labeling controls that JAWS reports as "unlabeled" (E.G. buttons). But these are not unlabeled controls; they're graphics. So use the graphics labeler rather than the custom labeler. Orlando Enrique Fiol Ph.D. in Music Theory University of Pennsylvania: November, 2018 Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist, Arranger, Performer and Pedagogue Charlotte, North Carolina Home: (980) 585-1516 Mobile: (267) 971-7090 Email: ofiol@...
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Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Orlando Enrique Fiol
At 08:37 AM 7/22/2020, Patrick Murphy wrote:
Ye, that might work, if only I could actually label the graphic.You can, Pat. Just route the JAWS cursor to each of the graphics and label them with insert+G. If the numbers that appear as graphics are displayed in different permutations each time you visit the site, the labeled graphics will be read as they appear, which makes them quite flexible. Custom labels are not used for labeling graphics; they're for labeling controls that JAWS reports as "unlabeled" (E.G. buttons). But these are not unlabeled controls; they're graphics. So use the graphics labeler rather than the custom labeler. Orlando Enrique Fiol Ph.D. in Music Theory University of Pennsylvania: November, 2018 Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist, Arranger, Performer and Pedagogue Charlotte, North Carolina Home: (980) 585-1516 Mobile: (267) 971-7090 Email: ofiol@verizon.net
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Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Mike B
Hi Pat,
I'm referring to quick settings while you're on the Buffalo
link or opening the settings center while on the Buffalo link.
While on the Buffalo link, if you open quick settings with the
keystroke, Insert + V, under the, General options heading, look for the Graphics
option. You have 3 choices All, Labeled and None. You use the
spacebar to toggle through them.
While on the Buffalo link, if you open the Settings Center
with the keystroke, Insert + 6, on the number row, down arrow to, Graphics &
Symbols, if closed right arrow to open, down arrow to, Graphics verboscity, and
use the spacebar to toggle through the options like in quick settings.
With either, if you make any changes, make sure to tab to and press enter on,
Okay, after making a settings change.
Another thought would be to see if the picture smart feature
of J2020 might be able to catpture something.
Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool. Go dodgers!
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From: Patrick Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws. Hi,
What setting are yu referring to? Pat
From: main@jfw.groups.io
[mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike B
Change the setting just to see if it helps. Nothing ventured....
----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Murphy Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 5:37 AM Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Ye, that might work, if only I could actually label the graphic.
pat
From: main@jfw.groups.io
[mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mike B
Have you tried settings your graphics settings to, Labeled graphics, in either quick settings, Insert + V, or in the application settings center, just to see if this would read the graphics better?
----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Murphy Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:16 AM Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Hi,
I have tried this with both jaws 2018 and 2020 (latest update). My windows 10 is also totally up to date, as just checked this morning. I have a buffalo link station that i am using for storage. When you try to shut it down, or remove an external usb disk, a confirmation number is asked for. There are four numbers in total that you have to enter, e.g. 1234. The numbers present themselves on the screen as graphics. They are read by jaws as: “graphic number_1” “graphic_number2” “graphic_number3” and “graphic_number4”. Obviously, these are pictures. This has been confirmed by my son. The number sequence changes, it is not always the same number, but given that, so does the picture, as it has a different number. In the old internet explorer, i was able to assign a custom label to these numbers. Once my son helped me to go through each number from 0 to 9, the graphics were read out correctly, no matter what sequence they appeared in. Now, with google chrome, ms edge and brave, there does not seem to be any way to set a custom label. Jaws is telling me that this cannot be done. It could be that the pictures are not clickable or something like that. Can you only create a custom label for an element on a web page that is actionable? If so, why would internet explorer allow this, and no chrome based browser will? From what i have read, jaws should be able to create a custom label for anything whether it is actionable or not. Surely, this is the point of these. If there is a graphic on a web site that you just want to know what it is, a custom label should be creatable. Am i wrong? If so, can anyone provide an idea as to how to overcome this? At the moment, if i want to do anything with my link station, i have to wait until someone who can see is there. Please do not tell me to get another nas, this is not an option.
Kind regards,
pat
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Re: Restoring files
Chris Hill
Just hit the windows key and type file history. If you have any
questions, feel free to ask. You will need somewhere to store
your file history, like an external drive or nas device.
On 7/21/2020 20:29, clarence carter via
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Re: facebook and browsers
Chris Hill
Personally, I'm a big fan of firefox on facebook. Nobody else offers the facebook container extension, this keeps facebook from following you around on the web, thus thwarting its data collection practices.
On 7/21/2020 21:50, Justin Williams
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Re: facebook and browsers
Maria Campbell
Yes it does.
Maria Campbell lucky1inct@... All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. --Edmund Burke On 7/21/2020 10:50 PM, Justin Williams
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Re: What happened to my desktop?
Shirley Tracy
Thanks Bill.
Shirley Tracy
From: Bill White
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:26 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: What happened to my desktop?
Hi, Shirley. There are two settings that you can change to make sure that, in the future, even if Tablet Mode does get turned on, your desktop and task bar won't be hidden.
1. Open Settings with Windows key plus I. 2. TAB to the list of Settings categories, and press ENTER on System. 3. Arrow down to Tablet Mode, and press ENTER. 4. Under Tablet Mode, make sure, Hide app icons on the taskbar in tablet mode Button is Off 5. Also under Tablet Mode, make sure, Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode Button is Off.
Bill White billwhite92701@...
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Shirley Tracy
Sieghard ,
Thank you! Thank you! I must have done that, but I sure don’t know how. Wow!
This list is great when guys like you are willing to respond. I thank everyone who replied…and I truly thank you for coming up with the idea.
A very happy Shirley
Shirley Tracy
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Did you somehow turn on Tablet Mode? Press Windows Key + A and tab until you hear Tablet Mode, if it is checked press the spacebar to uncheck it.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Shirley Tracy
Hi Mike,
Yes, I tried rebooting. I also pressed windows key plus D and also the alt M and even Control M. Nothing happens. I ask Curtana for mail is the way I find it now. I no longer have the normal list. I hope I didn’t get a virus or something.
No, I didn’t finish the letter before the Desktop vanished, but I asked Curtana for mail and finished (rewrote) the important email letter. What the letter had to do with everything is that I was rushing to get it sent out before today—long story. In my hurry, I may have pressed the wrong keys somewhere—or been keying too fast--that darn letter took up a lot of my time and brain power. By the time I sent out my plea for help last night, I was exhausted. (smile). My next plan is to call Microsoft Disability number. Thought I’d pick your brains on the list first.
Shirley Tracy
From: Mike B
Did you try rebooting?
Did you try pressing, Windows key + D, or M, to take you to the desktop?
Did you press, Insert + T, to read the title of the screen you're on?
Was your computer doing some sort of update and wanting to reboot?
Did you get your letter composed and saved?
What relation does composing a letter and not having a desktop have to do with each other? What I mean is, as above, did you finish the letter, save it, then you couldn't find your desktop?
I'm not trying to be an A'Hole, but you're leaving out a lot of things that could of, might of or maybe did!
Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shirley Tracy Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 9:02 PM Subject: What happened to my desktop?
My computer started acting goofy this evening, and I was in a hurry to compose an important letter so may have rushed things along too quickly. Suddenly, my desktop disappeared. I can’t find it. Any ideas? It’s not in the recycle bin. (LOL).
Any help would be appreciated.
Shirley Tracy
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Re: filling out PDFs
Madison Martin
Well, that didn't work; guess my version of Word is too old. Thanks anyway
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though.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: July 21, 2020 9:53 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: filling out PDFs Tom, I agree with Justin. New to me also. Thanks for posting this. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tom Behler Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 6:53 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: filling out PDFs Madison: If you have a reasonably current version of Microsoft Word, press control F12 to get into the PDF conversion option. Then, locate the PDF file you want to convert into a Word document. Once you've highlighted that document, hit enter, and you will get a message that Microsoft Word will convert the file for you. Hit ok on this, and the conversion should be done. You will then be placed into the converted file, which should be an editable Microsoft Word document. Of course, once you have the converted document, you can save where needed. I've had fairly good results with this, although it does depend on how the original file was prepared before it was converted to a PDF document. I hope this helps. Tom Behler -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Madison Martin Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 4:38 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: filling out PDFs Hi all, I think someone posted the instructions for this a few weeks ago, but I deleted the email by accident. I don't mind reading PDFs in Adobe, but filling them out doesn't work. Can someone please tell me how to change this one PDF into a Word document so that I can fill it in? I tried selecting it and then copying and pasting it into a Word document but that didn't work. I know I could put it into Notepad, but I don't know how to use Notepad. I want to be able to fill it in myself, I don't want to print it out and have someone else fill it in for me. Thanks Madison
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Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Richard Turner
I think Mike was referring to the labeled graphics, but poking around in the various graphics settings, have you double checked the minimum and maximum graphics sizes to make sure what you are trying to grab are not outside of those parameters? It is a setting called Graphic recognition dimensions.
Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Patrick Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:53 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Hi,
What setting are yu referring to? Pat
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On Behalf Of Mike B
Change the setting just to see if it helps. Nothing ventured....
----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Murphy Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 5:37 AM Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Ye, that might work, if only I could actually label the graphic.
pat
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On Behalf Of Mike B
Have you tried settings your graphics settings to, Labeled graphics, in either quick settings, Insert + V, or in the application settings center, just to see if this would read the graphics better?
----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Murphy Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:16 AM Subject: Re: assigning custom label with jaws.
Hi,
I have tried this with both jaws 2018 and 2020 (latest update). My windows 10 is also totally up to date, as just checked this morning. I have a buffalo link station that i am using for storage. When you try to shut it down, or remove an external usb disk, a confirmation number is asked for. There are four numbers in total that you have to enter, e.g. 1234. The numbers present themselves on the screen as graphics. They are read by jaws as: “graphic number_1” “graphic_number2” “graphic_number3” and “graphic_number4”. Obviously, these are pictures. This has been confirmed by my son. The number sequence changes, it is not always the same number, but given that, so does the picture, as it has a different number. In the old internet explorer, i was able to assign a custom label to these numbers. Once my son helped me to go through each number from 0 to 9, the graphics were read out correctly, no matter what sequence they appeared in. Now, with google chrome, ms edge and brave, there does not seem to be any way to set a custom label. Jaws is telling me that this cannot be done. It could be that the pictures are not clickable or something like that. Can you only create a custom label for an element on a web page that is actionable? If so, why would internet explorer allow this, and no chrome based browser will? From what i have read, jaws should be able to create a custom label for anything whether it is actionable or not. Surely, this is the point of these. If there is a graphic on a web site that you just want to know what it is, a custom label should be creatable. Am i wrong? If so, can anyone provide an idea as to how to overcome this? At the moment, if i want to do anything with my link station, i have to wait until someone who can see is there. Please do not tell me to get another nas, this is not an option.
Kind regards,
pat
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