Bravo to you. This goes for any screen reader. Unless one is teaching a person using screen magnifying software conjoined with speech.

Also, for those of us with a duel challenge, causing a necessity for a greater separation of keys, a desk top keyboard might be preferred.

That is a good point. I hadn't thought of that.

Isn't the menu key the alt key? That is what I always understood it to mean.

I also use the wireless desk top keyboard for my laptop computer. I wonder if two desk top dongles can be plugged in to a computer at the same time. Thus allowing the instructor to teach using a keybo

Reading this thread caused me to look up Kathy Anne Murtha's courses on the internet. I was unable to find them. Has she discontinued teaching on the internet? She also sold a course for access techno

I appreciate you. Because you share my views. As you come from a different perspective than those exhibiting arrogance regarding some things. The reason sighted people use computers is because they ap

Youth has its advantages, I suppose. Writing such a post is one such. I was also fortunate to be taught computers, by those who were my contemporaries in age. Many who teach us blind individuals do so

The belief being instructed by totally blind instructors narrows our options is a prejudiced point of view. Dictated by cultural constructs. It was such thinking which prevented totally blind people f

I agree with you entirely. I was most fortunate to have learned to use the computer from an exceedingly fine totally blind trainer. Along with tapes taught by blind instructors.

I should have said when discussing the left and right click, the left and right mouse buttons stated this when the Jaws curser was routed to the PC curser. For which I apologize. If a man is called to

Aren't those concepts dealt with by the individuals screen reader of choice? I use Jaws, and one can single click and double click by using the insert key, plus the Num pad plus or minus keys, and the

This is why a sighted computer instructor should either learn to use the keyboard exclusively before attempting to instruct a totally blind individual. Who will never at all use a mouse to traverse hi

Also, another question concerning the interaction of Backblaze with Jaws. In a couple of weeks, I shall have my C drive repartitioned. Eliminating my drives E and F. Will Jaws be able to recognize the

I forgot to mention in my last post, I am using Jaws 10 with windows XP. If that assists.

This is why dear Debbie Scales will always be missed. The answers she gave for the programs she recommended we Jaws users use was tested by her, and worked every time they were tried. It didn't hurt t

I somehow got my external drive letters confused. The drive letter J I was backing up, became confused with the letter I which I was not backing up. I was trying to exchange the drive letters to what

I agree with you on that score. If I began learning to use the computer attempting to understand all those keyboard shortcuts, I should easily become discouraged. Emphasis should also be put, when ins

If it weren't for Abraham Nemeth's code, higher mathematics and science would be more difficult for totally blind students. The sad thing is with the new UEB code, either it has been done, or there is

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