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Spotify Desktop program for Windows and accessibility tips if I using JAWS for Windows 2019 or 2020
Anders Boholdt-Petersen
Hi everyone
Have some person on this list some tips and tricks related to how I setup the Spotify Desktop program so I have the best accessibility with the screen reader JAWS for Windows, and also if I should make some adjustment in JAWS?
At the time I write here, I e.g. not can skip to the next song with the hotkeys in the Spotify desktop program (left control+right arrow) when JAWS running. I must closing JAWS with Insert+F4 before the hotkeys working.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Regards, Anders
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Re: Spell Checking and HJ Pad
David Griffith
Yes this is certainly a workaround. Also increasingly web browsers offer quite accessible spell checking in their edit boxes as well. Because of the clunkiness and unreliability of my spell checking with Word I have often used the spell checking with the Brave browser directly on WordPress as a second line of defence. It would still be useful though to have an accessible light Text/Word Processor like HJ Pad updated so that these workarounds were not necessary. David Griffith Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Glenn / Lenny
Sent: 10 November 2019 18:29 To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Spell Checking and HJ Pad
I use Notepad ++, but I've never spell checked with it. Usually if I need something spellchecked in notepad or on a web field, I open a new eMail message and paste it in there, and press F7 to spell check everything, and then I paste it back with the corrections. Glenn
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Re: Spell Checking and HJ Pad
Glenn / Lenny
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I use Notepad ++, but I've never spell checked with
it.
Usually if I need something spellchecked in notepad
or on a web field, I open a new eMail message and paste it in there, and press
F7 to spell check everything, and then I paste it back with the
corrections.
Glenn
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Re: Spell Checking and HJ Pad
David Griffith
I saw some discussion of Notepad ++ on the NVDA list and the conclusion there was that the Notepad ++ spell checker addon was inaccessible even with the help of the NVDA addon but I would be happy to be told otherwise. Another option is of course Jarte which has a spell checker but again I find this less than easy to use with a screenreader, certainly not as easy as HJ Pad or the old style Word. In the past I have tried Open and Libre Office but now avoid these as, apart from clunky accessibility in many areas they seemed to have an overly major impact on my Windows install and I ended up re-installing Windows to return to a cleaner leaner system. The advantage of a small exe file like HJPad is that it is not a huge install impacting on general Windows usage and does not try to grab filetypes etc. For itself. David Griffith Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Glenn / Lenny
Sent: 10 November 2019 17:09 To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Spell Checking and HJ Pad
There are some good open source word processors, such as Notpad ++ I don't know if it spell checks though. Glenn
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Re: The best accessible IP-scanner with JAWS
John Covici
use the ccommand line, nmap is a command line program, anything else
is on top of that. On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:47:37 -0500, Glenn / Lenny wrote: -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com
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Re: Spell Checking and HJ Pad
Glenn / Lenny
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There are some good open source word processors,
such as Notpad ++
I don't know if it spell checks
though.
Glenn
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Spell Checking and HJ Pad
David Griffith
Dear List I think many people forget that for over a decade now there has been a basic word processor provided with Jaws called HJ Pad. On my system it is located in C:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\2020\HJPAD.EXE This is potentially a very useful utility. However it is unfortunately showing its age and takes a few seconds to load on my machine, normally after windows reporting a not responding message which then disappears. This utility badly needs updating in other areas also but remains useful. Whilst this is by no means a fully fledge Word Processor in the style of Word many Word shortcuts work here. For example control H will bring up the replace dialogue with options for replace all etc. It also provide basic formatting with, if you need it bold, underline italics etc . You will need however to use Jaws key plus F to confirm format information changes.
However I think the most valuable aspect to this little word processing utility lays not in format control but it extremely easy and accessible Spell checking functionality.
I find spellchecking in Word office subscription version increasingly un-intuitive. I can sort of use it but sometimes it appears to inexplicably miss obvious spelling errors. This is probably my user error but I never had problems with spell checking in earlier versions of Word and I do get a little lost amongst the mass of Grammar options Word now provides.
As result I am a little untrusting of Word, , especially for blog posting.
For quick and dirty checking of Blog posts HJPad is an option. The Spell Checker is not modern, a little limited in vocabulary and any attempt to add a word to a User Dictionary results in an error message. Nevertheless the Spell Checker is like stepping back in time to the easy early Word Spell Checking dialogues and for quick blog checking is I think, still a useful free tool for Jaws Users. I wish FS would devote just a little effort to update this utility as I am sure others would find it really useful with a little tweaking. With a slightly improved dictionary, and the repair of the broken ability to add words to a User dictionary it would really come in useful. Also a basic script so that Jaws announces bold on and off as control b and other formatting changes are made would also update this utility mightily. If FS really cannot devote any time to updating this utility then perhaps they could make it open source and freeware so that the VIP programming community could take this little product forward and develop it to the benefit of screen reading users everywhere. It could then rise from obscurity to have a new life to assist many of us. David Griffith
David Griffith
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Re: The best accessible IP-scanner with JAWS
Glenn / Lenny
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Hi,
I currently don't have it installed on this
installation of Windows, but I recall that I may have had to route the jaws
cursor to a lower part of the screen to gather more information on something,
like the name and mac address to be sure that it was located.
It's been over a year since I used it on this
computer, and I reinstalled windows since then.
Glenn
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Re: The best accessible IP-scanner with JAWS
Anders Boholdt-Petersen
Hi again
I apologize for my late reply. Now I have tried to install N MAP on my computer. When i after that open "Nmap - Zenmap GUI", I only can find a window with not accessible information for JAWS. So how do you use N MAP with JAWS, and how can I via the program find IP-adresses etc. on my connected devices? Thanks in advance. Regards, Anders
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Re: Tandem question
Glenn / Lenny
It worked because you had a newer version.
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Your friend could not tandem into your machine with an older version than you are using. Glenn
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From: "David Goldfield" <david.goldfield@outlook.com> To: <main@jfw.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Tandem question I recently assisted a user via JAWS Tandem. While I was using JAWS 2020
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Re: Tandem question
David Goldfield <david.goldfield@...>
I recently assisted a user via JAWS Tandem. While I was using JAWS 2020
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I'm fairly certain that she was using an earlier version. I remember being concerned that the connection would not go through as I do remember a time when both machines needed to be on the same version but it actually worked with no issues. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.DavidGoldfield.org
On 11/9/2019 3:48 PM, Marianne Denning wrote:
If you are on the controlling machine you need the same version they have or
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Re: Tandem question
Kevin Meyers <kevinmeyers@...>
test message
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-----Original Message-----
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marianne Denning Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2019 2:48 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Tandem question If you are on the controlling machine you need the same version they have or a more recent version. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David Pearson Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2019 1:43 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Tandem question Hi list: What version of Jaws would you need to "tandem" into someone's pc who's using the 2020 release? Sincerely, David S. Pearson
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Re: Tandem question
Marianne Denning
If you are on the controlling machine you need the same version they have or
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a more recent version.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David Pearson Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2019 1:43 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Tandem question Hi list: What version of Jaws would you need to "tandem" into someone's pc who's using the 2020 release? Sincerely, David S. Pearson
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Re: Tandem question
JM Casey
JAWS 2020, I'm afraid.
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It's an unfortunate limitation of the Tandem concept.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David Pearson Sent: November 9, 2019 1:43 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Tandem question Hi list: What version of Jaws would you need to "tandem" into someone's pc who's using the 2020 release? Sincerely, David S. Pearson
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Re: Tandem question
Glenn / Lenny
Jaws can tandem into the same version or older, but not newer.
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From: "David Pearson" <dshawnpearson@suddenlink.net> To: <main@jfw.groups.io> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2019 12:42 PM Subject: Tandem question Hi list:
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Tandem question
David Pearson
Hi list:
What version of Jaws would you need to "tandem" into someone's pc who's using the 2020 release? Sincerely, David S. Pearson
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Re: websites appearing strangely
James English
Hi,
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If it helps, I am using windows 10 with an I7 machine and jaws 2018. The problem isn't that messenger (which is part of facebook) has randomly changed, it's that it keeps reverting to this odd state every 6 weeks or so, and always on a particular random one of my browsers. This time it is my (unextended) version of chrome, sometimes it is internet explorer, sometimes it is firefox. The other browsers, aside from the one it has decided to wrk strangely with, are fine; also it is important to note that whenever it is working strangely, other websites such as the online game politicsandwar.com also act strangely. Re-installing whichever browser, doing a complete scan and deleting all internet files fails to solve this strange issue for me.
On 11/8/19, JM Casey <jmcasey@teksavvy.com> wrote:
So, it's hard to know if you are experiencing anything specifically oriented
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Re: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18?
JM Casey
Hm. I have that, and it does work, but I didn't think it had access to that manny formats. It seems a lot of people convert to wav and then use another pgoramme to convert to their compressed format of choice. But I know there are a few different versions of Pontes out there as well.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marty Hutchings Sent: November 8, 2019 7:05 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? Pontes Media Downloader works well with JAWS and will download and convert YouTube videos to most audio or video formats. Love in Christ Marty For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:12, 13 -----Original Message----- From: JM Casey Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 5:34 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? You could use VLC for this. I assume you mean .wma format? VLC will convert anything, though the interface is a bit complicae/not obvious d and even though I've been using it to play videos for years, I'm still learning a lot about it. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David Ingram Sent: November 8, 2019 3:46 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? Hi list members, I'd like to know the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? Thank you for any information that you might have concerning this topic. I need to know this in order that I might create the list of songs for praise team practice.
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Re: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18?
Marty Hutchings
Pontes Media Downloader works well with JAWS and will download and convert YouTube videos to most audio or video formats.
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Love in Christ Marty For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:12, 13
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From: JM Casey Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 5:34 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? You could use VLC for this. I assume you mean .wma format? VLC will convert anything, though the interface is a bit complicae/not obvious d and even though I've been using it to play videos for years, I'm still learning a lot about it. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David Ingram Sent: November 8, 2019 3:46 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: What is the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? Hi list members, I'd like to know the best youtube to windows media player converter that works with jaws 16 to jaws 18? Thank you for any information that you might have concerning this topic. I need to know this in order that I might create the list of songs for praise team practice.
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Re: websites appearing strangely
JM Casey
So, it's hard to know if you are experiencing anything specifically oriented toward your computer and setup with the description you have given. I am not familiar with messenger.com -- is it affiliated with facebook in some way?
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If so -- Facebook is constantly tweaking and messing with their interface, and they aren't the only ones. Since we use these "free" services, we are basically used as testers for the various things they want to try. This sometimes mean that yes, things disappear, appear in strange places, or not as we would expect or maybe even want.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of James English Sent: November 8, 2019 3:27 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: websites appearing strangely Hello, I am starting to lose the plot with websites appearing strangely. This happens on the odd occasion, lasts about 2 weeks and then sorts itself out on its own: obviously I'd prefer if there was a way of sorting it out a lot faster from my end. It is browser independent though only appears to affect one browser at a time )IE or Chrome), occurs with both jaws and nvda,and is highly annoying. The best example I can give is with messenger.com, wherein various things (such as the search box) will disappear, and the conversation headings will be replaced with blank lines. Any help in this matter would be appreciated, - James
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