Good idea Don, however, we needed a solution right away, and what you suggest takes time. Thanks for your response, Russell

Hi, Sorry getting to some of these messages late. If you haven't already done this, try Firefox. It works well with the Discussion Board in Blackboard. Good luck, Russell

Hi Jessica, No I didn't try Narrator, but did try Edge, and it didn't work either. Firefox, however did work, so problem solved Thanks for your response. Russell

Hi Justin, Thank you for your response. Yes, as I mentioned in an earlier post, fire fox does work with the discussion board and blackboard. Thanks again, Russell

Hi Ashleigh, Thank you for your response. You are right. We tried fire fox, and the discussion board works great with it. The only trouble is, with fire fox, we aren’t able to upload a word document t

Hi Robin, The easiest way to create headings, is to press alt control number one for heading level one, Alt control number two for heading level two, and alt control three for heading level three. I d

Hi Mark, Thanks for your response, and for the links. I’ll read over that material, but it looks a little over my head. I managed to find a solution. The discussion board seems to work well with jaws

Hi Everyone, I'm working with a student who is using Jaws 2021 and is enrolled in an English course. The course is being delivered mostly online in Blackboard, version 9.1, I believe. The issue we are

Hi Madison, You can press Windows key + R to go to the Run option, and then type, depending on your version of Jaws, Jaws2020 or Jaws 2021, or Jaws 2019, and press enter after typing this. Hope this h

Hi Jim, The Kindle app on the iPhone works great with voiceover. I’ve never tried to read kindle books with jaws. Hope this helps, Russell

Hi Jim, Maybe try maximizing the File Explorer window? Cheers, Russell

Hi all, I've had this beef with JAWS and reading PDF documents forever! In a long PDF, when you press CTRL plus PageDown to go to the next page, the focus ends up somewhere in the middle of the next p

Hi, I just got off the phone with Freedom Scientific. Apparently there is a Windows update that mutes the Eloquence FSSynth32 synthesizer. I just need to guide the student to the sound settings and un

Hi all, I'm working with a student who has a fairly new HP laptop running Windows 10, not sure exactly what edition of Windows. He is running Jaws 2018, and yesterday Jaws quit speaking. I wasn't ther

Sorry that didn't help! Have you tried pressing Shift + Delete on the folder from within the deleted folder? Russell

Have you tried first deleting the messages from these folders and then deleting the folders? Not sure if this will help, but worth a try. Russell

Hi Marvin, If you press CTRL + Shift + N, you will be placed in an edit box where you can type a page number, and then press enter to jump to the page number you typed in. Before you type a number tho

Hi Marvin, There is a security setting in Adobe Reader that you need to disable. Go to Adobe preferences by pressing CTRL + K. In the list of preferences, look for "Security, (enhanced)". Tab to where

Hi Sieghard, Thanks for your response! I'm thinking that I may purchase a cherry Blue keyboard for my iMac at home and if it's not too noisy, I'll purchase a Windows one for work. If it's too noisy, m

Hi Sieghard, Would the Das Keyboard 4 Professional be okay to use in a shared work environment? I'm wondering if the clicking sound would annoy my co-workers? Is the Cherry Brown version the identical