Apologies if I missed an earlier part of the thread, but I’m seeing "college student" and “computer" and not a lot of detail as to the intended use of a new machine…. i7’s are great as others have sug

Thanks to all who have replied. Marianne, would you happen to have a link to that particular letter from the OSEP? That sounds very specific and clear, and might prove handy in an upcoming IEP later t

I could use some advice and feedback for the latest in screen reading solutions. Our situation is that our daughter, 6th grade, no light perception, a highly proficient Braille reader and Braillenote

We have a Focus 40— the classic version running on a windows 8 machine over USB and it works fine. I would guess you should have no problems if you have a compatible version of JAWS running.

Yes— that can work fine for many users, the key-rollover issue can come into play with that program as well. You have to check on a keyboard-by-keyboard basis to see which ones can deal with what you

I finally had time to search some more for the keyboards I mentioned— Here’s one option— the Power Chord, a 9-key Braille Keyboard. 6 Braille dots, enter, backspace, and space for $250 (US): http://to

No, this wasn't a notetaker. It was a USB keyboard-- just the keyboard interface for a computer, but it was setup like a Braille keyboard only-- no qwerty functions. Sent from my iPhone

The problem is more complicated than it may seem at first. There is a problem (prat least a potential limit) referred to as "n-key rollover". When you exceed the key limit, which varies from one keybo

This site (below) tracks current releases of DVD’s with Audio Description as well as TV schedules for many described programs on TV and helps to explain how to access the alternative audio on these br

Not to state the obvious, but they make a 20 character PAC Mate display as well as the larger one. Sounds like JAWS may assume it is using the smaller display. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a ma

Not to ask the obvious, but do you have sound working from other applications? And is there a separate “mute” setting or volume control within that app? I’m assuming you may be using this with JAWS on

Tee Asus may be a fine option. I believe there are issues where you cannot update those routers from a Macintosh, if that would be a concern. I am unaware if they serve to a Macintosh in a stable mano

It may be helpful to search for "NAS" or Network Attached Storage drives if you want to attach a drive to your router. These are basically file servers without a traditional computer attached. The cav

Tempting as the Mac-only route might be for me, a few apps she needs for school are PC-only, and she is actually fairly JAWS savvy for her age. We started her with a PC and jaws around age 4, I guess

We’re looking for a new laptop for our 5th grader to use with her current copy of JAWS. Her desktop PC running Vista seems to be too worn out to justify any further repair, and she needs to be more mo

Is there some easy way to tell when shopping for a new PC which ones have Windows 8 Home Basic or Home Premium vs. whatever the Professional system is now called? (Windows 8 Professional, i.e. it?) I’

Thanks Betsy. We don’t even mind the laptop route, but what I’m hearing now from other sources is more about things like collaborative Google Documents which apparently don’t get along with JAWS, even

Has anyone here used a Chromebook computer yet? Any idea how their accessibility stacks up against JAWS on a PC? (If I understand correctly, Chromebooks are notebooks using a non-windows [and non-Mac]

If this is the sort of thing you can post a link to, someone maybe able to confirm this is the problem before you go to a lot of trouble to learn how to OCR it.

I can’t give you an absolute answer but maybe this will help in general. Providing a link to the particular document may get you a more specific response, but a pdf is an extremely broad sort of forma