Hi Jim, there are a couple of issues with autocomplete in wlm. The first is that it only autocompletes the names or email addresses of contacts. The second is that Jaws doesn't automatically read out

Hi Lauren, just to add to all the other suggestions. Since an update in April, there is now a power options button on the start screen of windows 8.1. So you can: 1. press windows key to move to start

Hi John, a large part of audacity is accessible with Jaws. There's a detailed guide for Jaws users available here: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.0.5-Guide.html In addition

Hi James, there are guides to some areas of windows 8.1 on the following page - they can be found after the windows 8.1 heading: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/jaws-guides/ David. original message: Hello list

Hi Jimmy, I think that the only advantage would be fewer keystrokes. As is often the case, when there are a number of ways of doing the same thing, it's just a matter of personal preference. David. or

Hi Kimber, the only keyboard method that I know about for pinning a website to the taskbar in windows 7 is a two stage process: add the website to the start menu, and from there pin it to the task bar

Hi Kimber, I don't think you're doing anything wrong. When you switch back to the pc cursor, and use the arrow keys, Jaws says selected, but just ignore this. If you just carry on to the end of the in

Hi, you can drag them to another location using the Jaws cursor: 1. Move to the program's button that you want to move. 2. Press Insert + Numpad Minus to route the Jaws Cursor to the PC cursor, and th

Hi Robert, The following guides are written in html rather than word, but may be of interest. There are links to the guides after the windows 8.1 heading on this web page: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/jaws-

Hi James, just to add that using the touch cursor doesn't involve using a touch screen - you just use keystrokes. I don't think that it was very sensible for freedom scientific to use this name, as it

Hi James, have you tried using the touch cursor, which was introduced in jaws 15. You should be able to use it to navigate between objects in a dialog box. Here's an introduction: http://www.freedomsc

Hi Stuart, the skydrive app doesn't seem to be that useful if you're using a keyboard - maybe it is if you're using a touch screen. Most of the settings for skydrive are in the skydrive section of pc

google's shortened links to the guides which I used have been classed as spam, so here are the full links to the individual guides: Start screen: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Start-S

I've written some guides for Windows 8.1, and they are available after the "windows 8.1" heading on this page: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/jaws-guides/ Alternatively, the links to the individual guides are

Hi Mike, To change the details in File Explorer in Windows 8: 1. On the view tab, press the add columns menu button. 2. On the menu, choose the last item which is choose details. The familiar choose d

Hi Drew, To open the desktop version of internet explorer from the start screen: 1. Open the desktop version of Internet Explorer from the desktop, and on the Tools menu choose Internet Options. 2. On

Hi Drew, there are some guides to window 8 on the Jaws page of the VIP Software Guides website: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/jaws-guides/ The relevant guides follow the windows 8 heading on this page. Note

Hi Hamid, the mail app in windows 8 doesn't have a desktop version. However you can still use all the email programs which were available in windows 7, for example, windows live mail, and thunderbird.

* David Bailes * To * jfw Hi Kayla, here are some guides. This first is for file explorer, what used to be called windows explorer: http://goo.gl/MlFuf The second is for the taskbar, which includes th

Hi Jean, The accessibility of windows live mail on windows 8 is the same as it is on windows 7. It's not ideal, but it's quite usable. It supports both pop3 and imap, and you can use a gmail account.