I don’t know why but this Windows keystroke has never worked for me personally. It may be that there is a time limited opportunity to press the command and by the time I have got my fingers in place the notification has gone.

The only keystroke which sometimes works for me is Windows A which takes me to the Action centre where some notifications will live.

However even this is not consistent as sometimes notification windows like the annoying DropBox messages will not be located even with this method. Thankfully DropBox seem to have finally got the  message I don’t want warnings of any kind from them.

David Griffith

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Hi Steve,

Perhaps you could try this:

When you hear the Windows 10 notifications jingle, press the <windows+shift+v> keystroke in order to focus to the notification and then, press <space> or <enter> key to interact with it.

Please note that the <windows+shift+v> key combination is not a screen reader-specific keystroke. In other words, it is always available in Windows 10.

HTH, have a nice week-end. Chris D

Hi Steve,

Perhaps you could try this:

When you hear the Windows 10 notifications jingle, press the <windows+shift+v> keystroke in order to focus to the notification and then, press <space> or <enter> key to interact with it.

Please note that the <windows+shift+v> key combination is not a screen reader-specific keystroke. In other words, it is always available in Windows 10.

HTH, have a nice week-end. Chris D

Honestly, my opinion is that scanning material with a flatbed scanner
is always going to be a bit easier than using a phone unless you have
a stand that can position your phone in a stationary location. Even
then starting a scanner from a PC keyboard and using that keyboard to
quickly save a document or copy and paste that scanned text into
another document is, at least for me, a much faster and more efficient
experience. There may be others who feel differently about this and
I'd be interested in hearing their perspective.


On 6/11/2020 4:26 PM, David Csercsics wrote:

While we're on this topic, how does things like OpenBook compare to
scanning apps for the phone, or things like envision AI?

When I click “Acquire” my computer announces “ Finished – Failed to recognize text.” The scanner has not operated at all at this point. I have only 1 scanner and it is recognized in the “Convenient OCR” “Cameras and Scanners”  dialog. Any ideas why the scanner is not engaged or suggestions I might try to produce scanning?

J Edward Culpepper, PhD

Huntsville, Alabama

Honestly, my opinion is that scanning material with a flatbed scanner is
always going to be a bit easier than using a phone unless you have a stand
that can position your phone in a stationary location. Even then starting
a scanner from a PC keyboard and using that keyboard to quickly save a
document or copy and paste that scanned text into another document is, at
least for me, a much faster and more efficient experience. There may be
others who feel differently about this and I'd be interested in hearing
their perspective.


On 6/11/2020 4:26 PM, David Csercsics wrote:

While we're on this topic, how does things like OpenBook compare to
scanning apps for the phone, or things like envision AI?

HI All,

I am trying to make my excel spreadsheet read the column names and row names when using the jaws+alt+shift+r or C commands that jaws provides.

So I did the following:

First I went to column a1, where it says product name

Then I hit alt+m, m, d which loads the define names dialog box and typed product name.

I then pressed ok, and when I go down the colllumn and hit jaws+alt+shift+c it says no column name

Can someone please advise me as to what I’m doing wrong?

Best,

juan

The interesting thing is that the issue doesn’t show up on all laptops  using the Realtek  drivers.  I have a HP laptop and it is running windows 10 1909 haven’t pulled down or had the latest version pushed to me yet, but I’ve never had this sound problem.

But if you want to read on I’ll tell you about an issue I had with my laptop when I upgraded to windows 10 18.03 version.  It’s a weird story and the solution was insane. But it fixed my issues.  I actually worked with Freedom Scientific, and it was the accessibility folks at Microsoft the tier 3 folks who solved it.

My laptop is a fully loaded system 20 gb of ram 5.1 surround sound with a touch screen. 

Yes, I know I didn’t need some of these features like the h HG screen but the system came with dual AC wireless and I loved the keyboard action.  I’m a little picky when it comes to the keyboard and so tested out lots of systems before purchasing one.

Anyways, my system worked fine with windows 10 17.09.  however, after upgrading to the 18.03 release I discovered a very annoying bug.

The keyboard echo worked fine as long as I was working on the desktop or in a ms office product.  When you typed the characters would be spoken correctly.  Or words for that matter. 

However, when one launched an internet browser to go to the web suddenly the keyboard echo was insane.  When you hit a character it did not report the character properly.  E.g. hit the letter w and it might say r

The interesting thing was if you went back and reviewed what you had typed the characters were reported as expected.

I thought maybe it was a keyboard driver.  It wasn’t. Microsoft the first folks checked that.  no the driver was upto date.  We then checked the sound drivers they were up to date.

Note: this browser issue happened with narrator as well.

So the tier I folks ended up passing me to the tier 2 folks.  They checked things out as well. No good.  So they passed me back to the tier 3 folks.

So had to set up a time for the tier 3 folks to call me.  When they did we set up a remote session so they could come on to my laptop.  And with in 5 minutes the issue was fixed.

Hold it wait!!!!

I bet none of you will guess what the solution was.  I still shake my head when thinking about it.  But the solution just goes to show you how interrelated the windows code is.

The solution was to lock my screen into land scape mode.  As soon as we did this, everything worked fine.  In any web browser when a person hit the letter w it said w. etc.

So that’s my weird solution and story about windows10.

Have a good day everyone.

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Honestly, my opinion is that scanning material with a flatbed scanner is always going to be a bit easier than using a phone unless you have a stand that can position your phone in a stationary location. Even then starting a scanner from a PC keyboard and using that keyboard to quickly save a document or copy and paste that scanned text into another document is, at least for me, a much faster and more efficient experience. There may be others who feel differently about this and I'd be interested in hearing their perspective.


On 6/11/2020 4:26 PM, David Csercsics wrote:

While we're on this topic, how does things like OpenBook compare to scanning apps for the phone, or things like envision AI?