A totally blind adaptive technology instructor several years ago advocated teaching the use of basic windows keyboard commands. Rather than screen reader specific keyboard commands. This was when seve

Hey Everybody! When I download something to a hard drive, it says the download speed is something like 141KBPS, and the file is 51MB, which my computer claims takes 16 minutes to download. Is there a

1. Go to the desktop and make certain no item has focus. Then bring up the context menu, whether by SHIFT+F10 or the Applications/Context Menu key, and select New, Shortcut from that menu. 2. In the C

Thank you all for your kind and most gracious assistance. I will look into using this screen shade feature. I have saved Brian’s post with the key stroke for turning it on. It will surely come in hand

Hi, My attempts to sign up to PhonesForTheBlind+subscribe@groups.io Bounce back. My only email program is Windows10Mail. Is there a way to sign up with help from the owner or some other approach? Than

On one of the threads, there was a bit of discussion about learning experiences. I thought I'd start a separate thread about structured discovery and assistive technology. From what I know, structured

I apologize for sending that last message without a subject. It shan’t happen again. Here it is: In case my last message was ignored, again I apologize for my carelessness. We forget, computer instruc

Howdy: Know that this isn't a "master psychic" list but does anyone know what a sma upgrade to Jaws23 will cost. Understand that this new(2023) release probably won't be issued until sometime this lat

David: If your SMA is current prior to the release of JAWS 2023, I think the cost for extending it would be $150 which would cover the next two major releases, including 2023 and 2024. Best regards, C

Hello List, I purchased an ebook version of a textbook I need for graduate school on kobo. It mentions to download an app either for your desktop or iphone. I picked the desktop. After I ran the insta

For some reason I’m unable to recall the key stroke for bringing up the list of emojis. Could someone please refresh my memory? Ms. Kirtley

Hi all, What job boards did you find to be accessible? Any that were totally inaccessible? All the Best, Brian Switzer

Thank you mister White for your suggestion. It works as the shutdown shortcut does. I want to, also, thank all you fine people for your considerate and thoughtful suggestions. They, too, are appreciat

I already have a shutdown shortcut on my desk top. I believe it is a windows prompt command, though, I am not sure. It is: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /f /t 0 Start in %windir%\System32 I don’t

I was wondering if both mouse buttons are locked whether sighted people would not be able to use the computer. Unless they were familiar with the use of the keyboard. I would think if the mouse button

I will ask a direct question, then. I have a single computer in my home. Do you have parental controls installed on your computers; for the occasions your grand children visit? If not, how do you prev

Hi folks, I'm running the latest Jaws V2022 on latest Windows 10. I get this error each time I start or re-start Jaws. 'activate.jsb is not a valid script file: Speech will not start up until I press

I understand, from going through my power settings, one may turn off the lap tops monitor. I have considered looking into this. But, should I require sighted assistance, for example, should I lose spe

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Good morning everyone, Where would I go too locate my Jaws authorization key? I can’t for the life of me, remember where it is or how too find it.