Hi Barbara, my best bet is your Internet Explorer is set to the modern app style rather than the desktop version. Windows 8 and 8.1 have what they used to call metro apps, modern looking interfaces ar

Hi Tom, JAWS 15 brings quite new navigation features for Win 8, but that doesnÇt mean that fixes for other things, especiallz for Office, are left out. There are tons of bug fixes, and as far as I kno

Hi Tom, I was told by an FS employee from Germany that Office 2013 works best with JAWS 15.0, cause there are certain things that won't read well and work together in conjunction with Braille displays

Hi Drew, from the few times I ran JAWS 15.0, I can tell that it is definitely worth a try under 8.1. There are parts of the screen where the new touch feature comes in handy, such as some system setti

Hi all, I agree with Lee here. FS did away with the merge feature in international versions of JAWS, since it messed up quite a bit regarding configurations, cause anything JAWS international is now s

Hi, in case people are having problems with either skype connections or internet performance in general when JAWS 15 is running (slow downloads), here is how to work around this temporarily. If you’re

Hi all, I remember someone talking about decreased internet speed with JAWS 15. Many people on the German JFW list, which is monitored by FS employees, are starting to complain about that very same ph

Hi Shane, Windows 8 will not work with anything less than JAWS 14.0. Windows 8.1, which will be released soon and is a free upgrade, should work with JAWS 15.0. JAWS 15.0 contains many new features fo

Hi, you can also try u for the next unvisited, and v for the next visited link in an e-mail, use shift with the quick navigation letters to go back respectively. Regards, Nermin

Hi Tom, maybe you have some sort of firewall blocking your access to the update server? Do you get any error message? But just download JAWS 14.0 from the FS page and install it, that should give you

Hi all, seems the list of fixes does not include Firefox crashing on pages with Flash enabled, or when trying to play videos on Youtube. So this bug is still present I suppose, even with the latest FF

Hi Bill, I am using a Hotmail account with Windows Live Mail here. Regards, Nermin

Hi Nicole, you can change the behaviour of Firefox for saving downloaded contents. You will find everything in Tools\Settings, or similar. I am only doing a rough translation from my German Firefox in

Hi John, I'd be interested, so go ahead if you have the time. Good luck, Nermin

Hi, I think you can get rid of that by either defining the structured mode for your display, or switching to a different mode, such as line mode. Regards, Nermin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Hi Jeff, this seems to be a Mozilla bug that some screenreaders encounter. The page simply hangs and you cannot even close Firefox. My temporary solution is switch to NVDA for Youtube, or as Adrian su

Hi Jim, you can download scripts for Skype at http://www.dlee.org/skype/ Regards, Nermin

Hi Mike, The DecTalk is not a sound card, rather, it's a hardware synthesizer of its own that will speak instead of eloquence. It is a box hooked up to your computer's serial port, or USB to serial co

Hi Dave, Windows 8 comes with IE 10 as per default. Lauren, try pressing alt+n to get to the information bar. Usually you can find various buttons "close, save split button, cancel" that perform a spe

Hi all, under Acrobat Reader 11.0, the Protected view is under @Securitz Enhanced@, mazbe for 10.0 it's the same? I can't tell since I upgraded from 9.0 to 11.0 directly. Good luck, Nermin