Hi John, thanks for the info, I hadn't realized exactly what you were wanting to do. I don't know a good way of doing the same using Jaws. However, when I was looking around I came across the two powe

Hi John, if you want to read previous lines, rather that scroll the window, you can just use up arrow (and the then use down arrow to read the next line, if required) Is this not working for you? Note

Hi John, there are a couple of ways of scrolling using the keyboard. The first is to use page up/down. The second provides finer adjustment. Press alt+spacebar to open the window's menu, open the edit

Hi Danney, as others have said, you can press windows key + E to open Windows Explorer with the Computer folder as the current location. In addition, by default, a Windows Explorer button is the secon

Up until very recently, running Audacity and Jaws on the Windows 10 creators update could cause Audacity to crash. However, the good news is that this has be fixed in the latest version of Jaws, versi

I've revised my guide to the Taskbar on Windows 10 for the creators update. As before, it covers the Start menu, search, Cortana, the taskbar buttons, the notification area, and notifications. It is a

Hi Mario, unfortunately, I've tested Jaws 17 and 18, and many versions of Audacity, and they all have the same problem. David.

If the audio editor Audacity is used with Jaws on Windows 10 Creators update (version 1703), then Audacity can crash. Fortunately, there are no problems with other screen readers, so you can use NVDA,

Hi Brian, unfortunately, the folder contents do matter, see eg: http://winaero.com/blog/disable-folder-type-discovery-windows-10/ Note that libraries do not suffer from this problem. A tedious way of

Hi John, The date and time aren't in the tab order, or used as the name for the list of items, so I think it's Microsoft's fault really. Jaws would have to have a script for the page so that the date

Hi John, You can use windows explorer to find files. To search for files in a specific folder, make it the current folder in Windows explorer, then: 1. press ctrl+e to go to the search edit box. 2. ty

For those using windows 10 and who have received the anniversary update, I've updated my guide to the taskbar on Windows 10 to cover the update. It's available here: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/

Hi Maria, there are a couple of ways to dismiss an alarm notification sent by the windows 10 alarm and clock app: 1. Press windows key + A to open the action center. This immediately silences the alar

Hi Mike, there have been some improvements, but without knowing in more detail what you were having problems with, I'm unsure whether these will alter your view of the accessibility of the program. Th

Hi Greg, a couple of other audio editors which are reasonable accessible with Jaws are Audacity and Reaper. Audacity is free, and Reaper has a 60 day free trial, and is not too expensive. Reaper has m

In windows 10, if you open the start menu, type some search terms, and open a web search result, then until a few days ago, it used to open the search in your default browser. The same applied if you

Hi James, I've posted a couple links about windows 10, and I think that other have also posted links. I've posted a link to this guide to file explorer: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/

Hi Mario, no it's not restricted to windows 10, it's meant to work in Microsoft programs such as wordpad and word, David.

Hi Mario, I'd forgotten about pressing numpad 5 three times, that's much easier. (alt+x is a windows keystroke, rather than a Jaws keystroke) David.

Hi Tim, I think the following should work in word - I've tested it in wordpad. To find out the hex value of a character, move to the character after that character and press alt+x. The character is re