Hello everyone, Would you like to make the most of your refreshable braille display with JAWS on Windows? Are you looking to learn more about how braille can be used to make effective presentations? I

Hi Isaac, I'm afraid I'm not convinced that this is necessary or even appropriate. Freedom Scientific scripts could change at any time, even from minor JAWS version to minor JAWS version. If you resto

Hi Addison, You should be able to extract my email address from any correspondence I send to the list. I don't go out of my way to hide it. However, as I say, please understand that I have relatively

Hi Addison, M Facebook is generally less cluttered, which is why I suspect FS tech support encourage its use. Regular Facebook is still perfectly accessible, though. As I say, I'm hardly a Facebook ex

Hi Brian, Yes. Usually it is a match on the program executable. In some cases they used to match on DLLs, e.g. Internet Explorer settings were under browseui rather than iexplore. I'm not sure why thi

Hi Ann, Ah yes, this is a bit of a bug bear of mine. For some inexplicable reason, I have not found a screen reader that can do italics according to the rules of literary braille. JAWS can certainly s

Hi Mario, Ah, yes, I see. It's been quite a while since I've done any significant tinkering under the hood. I do know that some restructuring of settings went on not so long ago but I don't know the d

Hello Addison, I am not a Facebook expert so I did not jump into this thread straight away, thinking that perhaps someone else might have a more thorough answer. But yes, the regular facebook.com webs

Hi, Roger is basically correct. However, there is a precedent for needing to recompile scripts between JAWS versions on a very occasional basis. This memorably happened when upgrading from JAWS 4.5 to

Hi, A few points to answer here: To compile a script: as others have said, CTRL+S is the magic keystroke. However, you need to be in the script manager to do this! To get to the Script Manager, press

Hi David, Thanks for the tip. However, DECtalk ACCESS32 is not available on that downloads page. It is in fact one of the oldest software speech synthesizers around and is even harder to get hold of t

Hi David, I believe Brian works from home and is naturally awake very early in the morning (presumably due to non-24), so I guess he figured he'd use his time productively and take care of some work e

Hi Val, It's not as easy as it used to be. Probably the best way to do it now would be to download a copy of JAWS from the Freedom Scientific website, making sure it's the same version and build as th

Hi Robin, Interestingly, JAWS has (or had) a driver for DECtalk ACCESS32, but I now can't find a version of DEC ACCESS that works with that driver. I'm with you, though – I used DEC ACCESS with JAWS f

Hi bill, That works in Microsoft Word but not in Notepad, at least not on my Windows 7 computer at work! Perhaps it does under Windows 10. In Notepad it is a real pain because there doesn't seem to be

Hi Colby, I don't have any experience using tablets with JAWS. However, as far as I'm aware, JAWS will only work on X86/X64-based systems and not, for example, on ARM processors. Specs for these sorts

Hi Jed, It's possibly a screen resolution issue, and I can't remember exactly where the setting is but it will be under "Display", and try lowering the resolution quite substantially. Failing that tho

Hi Dean, I find the name "Flexible Web" rather ironic as the reason why I don't use it is because it is not "Flexible" enough! I did use it very extensively when it was launched, but got fed up with r

Hi Mike and Dani, The "Migrate Settings" option allows you to skip the export/import process. I don't know where JAWS 17 stands, but try the following in your JAWS 2018: 1. From the JAWS window, press

Hi Mike, With a rule such as you describe, the number 1 is part of the actual word but not part of the replacement word and so JAWS won't speak it. To take an easier example: actual word dog; replacem