I've found ABBYY FineReader to be very good at processing PDF files containing images of pages, such as old journal papers. The OCR accuracy and format recognition are both impressive.

Turn off the automatic language detection feature in JAWS. I'm not using Windows just at the moment, so I can't look it up quickly, but the option should be easy enough to find in Settings Center.

Try pressing the tab key after the suggestion is provided.

It's reliable, indeed. My own solution is just to pin it to the Task Bar and use Windows+number of entry on Task Bar to run the application. Under Windows 11, Alt+Shift+Left/Right-Arrow will let you r

I just tried visiting https://www.amazon.com/access and their Web site returned an error message immediately, stating that an error occurred processing my request - no more detail than that.

You should send diagnostics to Freedom Scientific and open a support case.

Mine has a numeric key pad and no issues with audio drivers. Its current equivalent model is the Lenovo ThinkPad P15. It is, however, larger and heavier than most laptops. If you don’t mind that, then

Note also the changes in the latest update to JAWS 2022 that provide some access to Windows terminal, and improve the accessibility of the clipboard history in Windows 11. Windows Terminal is used by

More specifically, the "Braille In" section of the JAWS Help Topics is important, as is the section on using Focus braille displays with JAWS.

There may be other lists, but the braille-display-users list would be worth a subscription. My understanding is that besides several custom applications written for the ElBraille, it's just a Windows

Did you upgrade to a release that supports the new JAWS Tandem encryption protocols? From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> on behalf of Bill White <billwhite92701@...> Date: Saturday, Nove

It's the same for me - no additional issues with JAWS 2022. Microsoft Outlook becomes unresponsive and needs to be restarted sometimes when I'm accessing IMAP folders, but that has been an issue for y

I've experimented with Eclipse under Linux. I think it's Ctrl-F6 to move between components, not F6. Check the list of keyboard shortcuts, which should be available via your preferred Web search engin

When you're in the footnote text, there's an option in the context menu to "go to footnote". It takes you to the point in the main text where the footnote mark appears. This is the quick way to return

I tested this with a Microsoft Teams meeting recently, and it worked as intended. Be aware of the limitations stated in the JAWS 2022 beta release notes. However, some of those limitations (specifical

I'm typing this in Grade II braille with a Focus 40. I normally use the QWERTY keyboard for text entry, but for this message, I'm using Grade II braille input. In Settings Center, under Translation, t

To the best of my knowledge, Skype 8 is best supported by recent versions of JAWS. Note that it is being superseded by Microsoft Teams - including Microsoft Teams personal. Skype is on the way out.

One way to achieve this in Microsoft Outlook that I discovered recently is to reply to the message with focus on the message list rather than in the body of the message. At least in the Office 365 ver

Also, Microsoft Outlook doesn't support interspersed replies within quoted messages very well, at least in my experience of trying to do it. By contrast, I have no problem with it in Mutt, Thunderbird

Try Insert+Space, Z to switch to the default JAWS configuration, then perform a test. If the problem goes away, it's something in your JAWS configuration.