And, by the way, even back then Jaws for DOS used the numeric keypad for navigation, Insert + Up arrow was the command for Say Line just as it is now and the Jaws and PC cursors were both there.

I am sorry to disappoint, but saying there was no Jaws in 1989 would be like saying there was no Microsoft before Windows. When I immigrated to Canada from Germany in August of 1989 and shortly after

As I said, it's all about where your interests are and whether you spend some time at first learning about how to do things and then to actually use the product on a fairly regular bases to do said th

Steve, as a 54-year old very active technology user who has been using Jaws since 1989 I have tried to use NVDA a few times and I just can't do much with it because of the differences. Yes, maybe some

The subscription has been available in Canada since July.

Which is exactly why people really need to mention where they live when they ask questions about Jaws pricing or any other pricing or availability of maybe certain subscriptions or software

Tom, why don't you give the Microsoft Disability Desk a call and ask if they can help.

Not so, I have several HP EliteDesk Mini PC's and they have internal speakers like a laptop, but they are not very good. On one of them the default soundcard for Windows as well as Jaws is the connect

The startup sound is a simple checkbox. Open Control Panel Go to Sound and press enter Pres Control + Tab twice to go from the Playback tab to the Recording tab and finally the Sounds tab, you can als

Until it doesn't, it may seem to work fine or maybe it even does now, but let's not give people a false sense that they shouldn't upgrade to Jaws 2022 when they want to use Windows 11 because I unders

You don't have to block it, just don't install it, it will not install automatically.

I don't think in Edge or Google Chrome they call it a shortcut any more, but you can install a website as an App: in Edge you would log into Gmail and then press Alt + F for the File menu and go to "A

You can just upgrade, if you had the Beta before and upgrade you then have the full version and the Beta is gone, there is no need to first uninstall the Beta. There are a few ways to hear the Jaws ve

Yes, but often it's just a matter of not knowing what the keyboard shortcut is and getting used to something and it becomes what I call muscle memory. I guess Supertramp would say "Let's take the long

What do you do to get the time? Do you press Jaws Key + F12 or do you press Jaws Key + F11 to bring up the system try and then arrow down to where the time is displayed? Same difference, the system tr

Jaws Key + Caps Lock + B requires quite the finger acrobatics and for me is actually an impossible key combination to press.

If you use the desktop keyboard layout it is Shift + Jaws Key + B and it gives you information as to whether you are on AC Power, for me it then says "Battery Level High as well as "Battery 97%" and a

Sounds like a phone call to Jaws support might be your best choice.

I don't use Gmail, but I would add it under Gmail because it would seem that this way the Contact is stored on Gmail servers and it will sync to your PC or any other device you may have. If you ever b

First o fall , when you set up an Outlook.com account in the Outlook desktop client and you enter the user name and password it automatically creates the account and Exchange Active Sync if that is st