Nicole - I'm running JAWS 17 on a Windows 7 system and only notice lagging if there's something really busy going on: things like a massively busy web page loading or mail coming into Outlook while I'

I only recently was forced to change to a more recent version of Office and I’m still frequently baffled by the unintuitive nature of a lot of it. For example, when the spell check is being run before

I just switched to Office 2013 and I keep getting this message both when arrowing through my messages in Outlook or when opening a message. How can I turn this nuisance off? I don’t even know if it’s

Whenever I navigate the list of entries in Contacts, each name is spoken twice. Are others seeing this and do you know if so, whether it’s been reported as a bug to FS? -- Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL

Not to mention that there are a lot of other things that are no longer compatible with JAWS 11. If one is totally dependent on an access application to use the computer and doesn't keep that applicati

The F6 and Shift+F6 keystrokes are used almost entirely in online help files. You select a topic; press Enter; then press F6 to read the article. Some online help files don't support this, but most do

Or you can create a customized speech setup that actually speaks "cap" before uppercase letters. That's what I've done and I like it a lot. You may not be hearing the difference between normal pitch a

Bob and others - Open the JAWS online help and go to the application-specific section; find the article on either Internet Explorer or Firefox and you should get info on Application Mode. It's bound u

Beats me, but I just got off the phone again with FS and it turns out that this Application Mode nonsense is bound up with something called ARIA. In the JAWS online help, locate the application-specif

I ran into Application Mode for the first time yesterday and called FS Tech Support to find out what was going on. It's apparently something involving what JAWS thinks is a touch screen and there's na

Perhaps they monitor the list but don't post. This is frequently standard behavior for software vendors and nothing unique to any single company.

Have all of you who are having this problem actually reported it to FS as an issue in JAWS 17? Also, this is why I always keep at least one older version of JAWS on my computer any time I install a ne

If you open the Start Menu JAWS item and then open Explore JAWS, you can select Explore Manuals and there's a document named Keystrokes that's available in both .doc and .txt format. This is as close

You have to remove a Windows update, but I don't have the number of that update. This is the only way to eliminate this nuisance.

Are Karen's tools being updated since her death? If so, I haven't heard of it and I'd suspect that PC technology has passed her utilities by over the nearly five years since her untimely passing. The

And I have an even further update that actually fixes this problem, even in my Office 2003 applications. Follow these steps and it should work (I have Windows 7, so your steps may vary if running anot

After some further exploration, I found that in JAWS 17 and IE 11, I did get some results. For example, entering the word "move" (without the quotes, of course) did get me the expected results. Obviou

Same here. In JAWS 16, the command works flawlessly; in 17.1214, it fails miserably with the identical text input. I just got off the phone with JAWS tech support and got a big argument because he got

Pardon if this has already been discussed, but I'm new to this list as of today. When I say JAWS, what I'm about to describe is happening with both JAWS 16 and 17, both with all current updates, on a