Unfortunatley, the owner/moderator of this list has apparently given up his moderation duties and allowed the list to become a more general discussion forum where almost anything goes and rules are no

#cal-notice

And maybe if this list didn't have an absentee owner/moderator, there wouldn't be so much complaining about threads that drift off topic and turn into chit chat discussions that have nothing to do wit

Sorry, I stand corrected. How was the speech quality back in those days? Gerald

You have been using JAWS since 1989? That would be impossible because JAWS was not introduced until 1995. In fact, I don't think any screen reader existed in 1989, not even Voice Over. Gerald

Keep scrolling down past the Save As option, and you will land on a Save As Text option. Gerald

Is this your personal opinion, or do you have evidence from a reliable source that Kaspersky anti-virus provides "better" anti-virus protection than Windows Defender? There have been rumors that Kaspe

One thing to try is to go to the file menu in Adobe Reader PC and select the option to save the document as a text file. This will open the document in Notepad as a .txt file and eliminate all those p

#jaws

I also live in New York and was charged state and local sales tax of about $6 when I renewed my one year license for JAWS online yesterday for $76, bringing the total cost to $82. By law,online mercha

The overwhelming majority of blind computer users are not supertechies, and buying a computer with JAWS and other software already installed is a big plus. Not everyone can set up a new Windows 10 com

Eric Damery's official title is Vice President of Software Development. Gerald

Eventually, the SMA option is expected to be phased out, and all JAWS users will be switched to the annual subscription option, which will be more profitable for Freedom Scientific. Gerald

Keep in mind that not only is the JFW-Users list more tightly moderated, it boasts Eric Damery as a member. Gerald

That's the big problem with this list. Most discussions lately have been about anything but JAWS. I counted over 50 messages in the thread about audio description. And the list owner, if there is one,

I am confused. I thought this was a list for the discussion of issues related to the JAWS screen reader, but lately, there have been long discussions about topics that have nothing to do with JAWS lik

Good luck trying to get a refund from FS. Once you pay for an SMA or annual license, the sale is final. FS does not automatically renew an annual license. When it expires, JAWS will simply revert to 4

When you use Acrobat Reader Pc to open PDF documents, you may sometimes get the message, "empty document". This means that the text is contained within an inmage that Acrobat Reader PC cannot convert

How well did Windows 10 protect Colonial Pipeline against a ransomware attack? Gerald

Because there are already a number of Chromium-based RSS extensions out there, none of which I have been found to be accessible, I don't think MS has any plans to develop its own RSS feed extension fo

The big problem I have with Edge is that it does not offer an accessible RSS feed option or reader extension. At least the RSS feed reader built into IE is completely JAWS accessible and is still the

Is that so? My understanding is that Colonial Pipeline's computers had the latest version of Windows 10 with the best security software money can buy, but they were still nevertheless infiltrated with