I understand a third party has developed a set of JAWS scripts to make QuickBooks accessible, but I have not personally used them. As I understand it, the scripts sell for about $200. -Paul

I ran into a web site a couple years back that had mouse-over controls. They are frustrating. This control, in particular, opened a menu when the user hovered the mouse. I found I could open the menu

To maximize a window, hit WINDOWS + UP ARROW. I wanted to share this shortcut with everyone, as I've seen a couple posts recently in which posters complain that windows they have maximized have become

Thanks Sieghard and also Matthew Horspool. The JAWSKEY + CTRL + ENTER is much more elegant than using the JAWS cursor for mouseover controls. -Paul

Hi all. I'm looking for a quick way to add the sender of an open email message to my contacts. I'm getting this information for a friend of mine, who has Office 365 on a Windows 10 system. I don't hav

Thanks. I tried a couple things like this in a tandem connection today. But I was unable to get the context menu to open. Are there known problems with opening the context menu remotely during a tande

Thanks Steve and Paul. These are both awesome methods, very quick and simple. I don't do this often myself, so I'm going to jot it down in a note for later reference. And I'm sure these methods will b

I keep all this stuff in a plain text file and edit it with Notepad on my Windows system. Many will tell you this is a horribly unsecure solution, but if you secure your devices and computers so that

Hi all. The latest JAWS 18.0.4104 seems to have affected the system font in Windows 7. Let me explain. My sighted wife and I both have Win7 PCs, but we have JAWS on both PCs in case I need to do some

Replying to my own post here... I finally found the "Window Color and Appearance" dialog, which allows me to set the font, size, bold, italics, etc, of icons and menus. This will allow my wife to set

One tool that might help is Piriform CCleaner. It has a “Drive Wiper” tool that claims to securely erase data from all free space on a disk. CCleaner has several features, and this is one that I have

I looked into learning this a while back. I'm a former professional software developer, so I figured it would be a cinch. Unfortunately, I discovered that in order to do anything of substance with JSL

Cool tip, thanks. As a side note, the keyboard shortcut for opening the “copy item to” dialog is CTRL+SHIFT+Y. This just came up recently in the context of creating a new contact from an email message

I would say that both python and C++ are accessible programming languages - that is, blind programmers can use either. The thing that makes it accessible is the text editor and the screen reading soft

I'm reading a web page (using Google Chrome for a browser, if that matters), and the page makes extensive use of bullet points. As I arrow down, JAWS starts every line with "bullet" or, even more anno

Thanks. Yes, as I said, I tried making an entry in the dictionary manager. What you wrote below is exactly what I did, and JAWS continues to pronounce the bullets as "bullet" and "hollow round bullet"

Is this on all pages or just a few? I find that JAWS reads most pages in Google Chrome at least as good as it does Internet Explorer. (I'm on Windows 7.) Some pages, for some reason, cause Google Chro

I run JAWS on Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro from 2012. I use an external USB Microsoft Intellitype keyboard. I haven’t had any problems with keys or any need to remap anything. It works fine. -Paul

maybe I’m stating the obvious, but the reason to buy a Mac is so that you can run both Mac OS X and a second (or third) operating system via Bootcamp or parallels. I don’t think anyone is suggesting t

Well, we’re getting pretty far off topic here. But I don’t see why you’d need multiple copies of Office. If you’ve already got it running on your Windows system, then just use it on your Windows syste