Alison, Here are some suggestions I saved from list member, Mike B: How to scan files using a scanning device with the Jaws OCR feature. Steps are below. This will only work with JAWS2018 and newer. 1

Just learned about being able to scan a document with JAWS layered keystroke (jaws key and spacebar, then o, then a) This is great to simply read some text and to save text. However, I see no way to s

Richard, I had this problem with JAWS 2020 but not with 2019 or 2018 Does it do it with them too? When in JAWS 2020 try the layered keystroke insert + spacebar, then letter Z. This puts JAWS in defaul

Hello group, With some helpful suggestions from list member Mike B. I have resolved the issue I wrote about last week Jaws was reading all types of gratuitous information in emails. Anyway Mike remind

Mitch, Strange, I just loaded Jaws 2018 and did not experience the problem Al

Bill, Thanks, this seemed to do the trick. What I don’t understand, however, is when I load Jaws 2019 the table option is checked but I don’t hear all the nonsense. They must have changed something in

I was hoping the April JAWS 2020 update would fix the email issue in Outlook but it did not. Here is an example of how part of an email from my thermostat provider, ecobee, reads: row 1 of 1 column 1

You did not say white version of jaws you are using, but I am using the latest version and for the last two updates from Freedom scientific I have had a number of issues with outlook. I have written o

John, This worked good. However, once I saved the changes by selecting ok, exited Outlook, then rebooted computer same issue occurred. Now the directions you suggested don’t work as tabbing does not s

Hello, Using latest Windows 1909, Outlook 2016, and yesterday’s update of jaws the following announcement keeps repeating as I arrow down through mail in my inbox: Group By: Expanded: Date: Yesterday

Hope you got an answer to your issue. I never bothered with the shade thing, I simply keep my monitor off unless a colleague, etc. needs to look at something. Al

Just updated and did not see this dialogue. I will say, however, the update took a very very long time. Al

What is the Jaws key stroke to unselect everything on the desktop so I can select to alphabetize the icons? Thanks, Al

Try F6

Tyler, Agreed!! No heavy hands here in my experience. What I don't understand is at last look this group had 800+ members which is way over double the size of another Jaws group I'm on but there is no

Edward, Correct, and I tried it but unfortunately once Safari is disabled clicking on links does not open them in Chrome, they simply do nothing. Al

Steve, Using IOS 12.1.4 I have looked quite extensively in settings under Safari, etc. and cannot find where to disable this. I googled and it said turn off under restrictions which I can no longer fi

Steve, Are you saying you can have Chrome as a default browser on an iPhone as well? The rest of what you say below I agree with and is why I like Chrome Al

Chrome Al

I have been very happy with Chrome and never took the time to play with Edge a whole lot. I tinkered a couple of times but was not impressed and saw no reason to leave Chrome as by far it is the most