Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws issue.

Hi Randy i will give it a try. by the way i can not add alt control J for my short cut. e each time i do it and apply it and then check it the short cut key is gone. Cheers Michael. -Original Message- From: Randy Barnett Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 5:26 AM To:

Re: [JAWS-Users] A losing battle

Because MS cant do anything about the way FireFox is handling screenreaders. On 10/26/2017 8:18 PM, wayne smith wrote: Microsoft has a dedicated phone help line. Why don't you call them and ask for help? 800-936-5900 Wayne -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List

Re: [JAWS-Users] A losing battle

Microsoft has a dedicated phone help line. Why don't you call them and ask for help? 800-936-5900 Wayne -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Maria Campbell Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 3:31 PM To:

Re: [JAWS-Users] Registry Question

Well, I will tell you. :) press windows + R then type regedit. Now press alt +F and arrow down to export. and press enter. Now select the location to save the file. Example: My documents. Now tab to the file name field and name it. Example: Registry backup 10.23.2018 tab to save or ok or

Re: [JAWS-Users] Registry Question

Already answered in a previous message to you. Dave Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 17:33 Subject: [JAWS-Users] Registry Question

[JAWS-Users] Registry Question

Evening all. I have a question regarding the registry files. First of all, how would I go about backing up these files. And second, Is the information on the registry accessible with JAWS. I have JAWS 17 and Windows 10 on a Dell laptop. Thanks in advance. Jerry For answers to frequently asked

Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

You need to follow that with: W key for current window detection or the C key for unlabled control or D key ,for, pdf document opened in adobe reader. Best On 10/26/17, jyandt.mar...@comcast.net wrote: > Morning all. > > I just scanned a copy of my discharge papers

Re: [JAWS-Users] WebIE web browser, Podcatcher, Calendar, was RE: Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

There is Vivaldi also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) On 10/26/2017 1:16 PM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote: Hello Casey: Just to update you, when I mentioned WebIE to you I thought it prudent to go try it out with Windows 10 Fall Creator, so I went to: http://www.webbie.org.uk

Re: [JAWS-Users] A losing battle

To that effect, it might even take an evolution. lucky1i...@gmail.com "Preach the Gospel, and when necessary use words!" --St. Francis On 10/26/2017 3:51 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote: This will continue until the day when profit isn't the main motivation and that will be after the revolution.

Re: [JAWS-Users] A losing battle

This will continue until the day when profit isn't the main motivation and that will be after the revolution. (smile) Miriam -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Maria Campbell Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:31 PM To:

[JAWS-Users] A losing battle

There is a feedback link somewhere in the menus for Microsoft, but whether it does any good is another question.  What else are we supposed to do to protest?  We are such a small minority of customers, that frankly they'll get around to accessibility when/if they do.  Honestly, screen readers

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

Hi With cCleaner, when you select Fix selected issues after doing a scan for issues, cCleaner will ask you if you want to make a backup. If you select yes, I believe that the backup will only contain the registry keys that will be deleted, and not the entire registry. -Original

[JAWS-Users] WebIE web browser, Podcatcher, Calendar, was RE: Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

Hello Casey: Just to update you, when I mentioned WebIE to you I thought it prudent to go try it out with Windows 10 Fall Creator, so I went to: http://www.webbie.org.uk Downloaded and installed the suite WebbIE 4, which includes several programs in addition to the WebIE web browser. I found

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

A registry backup doesnt do any good if the PC wont boot. It is not worth the risk as there is no real performance gain unless you do some really crazy installing and uninstalling of hundreds of programs or download some really bad ones... On 10/26/2017 7:24 AM, JM Casey wrote: Just make a

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

Here! Here! We seem to be in a down turn right now. My question is why should we have to put up with it? Why do we have to accept inferior access other than "Oh thats just the way it is"? If we are totally accepting we wont ever get better access to technology. On 10/26/2017 7:34 AM, JM Casey

Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws issue.

I am seeing a lot of sound issues with the creators fall update. Check and see if the enhancements or effects are disabled in sound properties. Try updating your sound card driver. As a last resort uninstall your sound card driver completly and let windows use its default basic sound driver,

[JAWS-Users] Jaws 2018 and OCR Results

Just having installed Jaws 2018, Windows 10 Creators Edition, I had a problem both with the built in scanning feature, and with an image based PDF. Using Insert Space, followed by O, followed by A, the scanner choices came up, the scanner scanned a page, and the virtual viewer came up on the

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

Jerry, No instructions necessary. When you go into the button to clean your registry, the first thing you will be asked is if you want to make a back up of the registry. Simply answer yes, and except the file name suggested. Dave Sent from my iPhone On Oct 26, 2017, at 10:40 AM,

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

Can you please supply the instructions for making a backup of the registry? Thanks. -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:24 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question Just make a registry backup. I think Ccleaner

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

Can you please supply the instructions for making a backup of the registry? -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:24 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question Just make a registry backup. I think Ccleaner can do

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

It does give you the option to make a backup if memory serves me right. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 10:24 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users]

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

It can't hurt to contact Mazilla and let them know, politely, the problems they are creating for the blind and ask them to aid in better solutions. Wayne -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Jim Pursley Sent: Thursday,

Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 2018 Full Version Direct Download Links + What's New

Phew thank god I read davids message first as I thought Mike's response was off list, or there would've been f bombs all over the place lol. Anyways, thanks for the note, as I had no idea about that fact. I hardly check this list any more if it were announced. Mike is my brother from another

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

The  fs blog is available for rss subscription. On 10/26/2017 1:20 PM, Cher Bosch wrote: I think this is the article you referenced: This blog post was just sent out by Freedom Scientific. If you use JAWS and Firefox, you need to read this. Important information for users of Mozilla Firefox

Re: [JAWS-Users] pdf

One thing I discovered is that if you first copy the OCR results to Notepad and then to a Word document, JAWS Convenient OCR does remarkably well. I notice that if I don't take this first step, the result copies as a series of tables. Notepad strips out all such format markers. -Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

Jerry, I can't tell from your original post if you tried the conversion from a PDF file. Assuming you started with a PDF file, just open the file. JAWS may or may not be able to read all, part or none of it. Either way, stop JAWS from speaking with the control key, then initiate the OCR

Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

Jerry, Um, did you open it in Adobe Reader, or some other Adobe application? The "D" is meant for PDF documents. If this is a jpg or img or tif file, then you might need to use the "W" or "S" option in the OCR recognition. Dave Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer -

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

I think this is the article you referenced: This blog post was just sent out by Freedom Scientific. If you use JAWS and Firefox, you need to read this. Important information for users of Mozilla Firefox Jonathan Mosen October 25, 2017 0 Overview On November 14, Mozilla is expected to release

Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

Yes I did. I know that you should wait for a few minutes, but after doing so, there was still nothing. Thanks -Original Message- From: George Martinez Sr Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 8:30 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

Yeah, really. Doesn't it kind of feel like the early 90s all over again, where you would try to run a program and find it needed Windows, which you couldn't use because screen-readers only really worked with MSDos? As an aside, and not to be a grumpy old codger, but I really dislike this new

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

Hello, humberto. That was a very nice post; cheers. I do understand the cyclical, or, as you say, balance, you are speaking of. I wasn't using JAWS in 1989 because at that time I was a youngster, and had an Apple 2 E computer. I do remember getting my first MSDOS computer, a Toshiba laptop with a

Re: [JAWS-Users] CCleaner Question

Just make a registry backup. I think Ccleaner can do this for you. Otherwise, if you can see which registry entries are removed, you will probably be able to figure out what they are/what they do, roughly (it's not always easy, but I think I understand it reasonably well). It's possible that

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

Ah yes, thanks, that was the article th at was posted. I did a search for various keywords in the article in google but for some reason did not come across it (probably too new); I should have gone directly to the FS page. The person who posted the article did not list the source. -Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] tutorial on jaws ocr

Not that I know of, although it's covered briefly in one of the training seminars on FS's page (the one on Adobe Reader, which is free), if you like that sort of thing. It has an entry in the help topics though, which explains everything. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List

Re: [JAWS-Users] pdf

The one time I used "Convenient OCR" on a PDF image file, I wasn't very impressed with the results. That may depend more on the quality of the image than on JAWS, but even FS's adobe PDF training seminar doesn't really recommend Convenient OCR as a perfect solution for reading. They have

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

Helpful.  FSBlog a good resource. On 10/26/2017 4:56 AM, Dennis Long wrote: This should help. http://blog.freedomscientific.com/2017/10/25/important-information-for-users -of-mozilla-firefox/ -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On

Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

Did you hit a "D" after the "O"? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. George a Martinez CPA, PC 12231 N 50th Avenue Glendale, Arizona 85304-2215 Voice 602.368.8854 FAX 206-666-2589 Email ga.marti...@cox.net -Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. You need to install the just-released public version of JAWS 2018 to take advantage of expanded OCR capabilities that allow you to scan documents using a flatbed scanner or Pearl camera and convert them into speech. Earlier versions of JAWS lack

[JAWS-Users] Scanned Image and JAWS OCR

Morning all. I just scanned a copy of my discharge papers from the US Coast Guard. After saving it, I tried to open it and read it using JAWS OCR. I pressed the JawsKey and Spacebar. Then I hit O for OCR, and then D. I heard a piano chime, but nothing from JAWS after that. Can anyone tell me

[JAWS-Users] jaws cursor reads blanks problem

Hello list For a long time I get no info when I use the jaws cursor. JFW just says “blank blank ...” when I use the arrow keys. Would it solve the problem if I install a new vidio card and disable the onboard vga? Regards Fanus For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit:

Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 2018 Full Version Direct Download Links + What's New

Thank you good sir for making things convenient as always. Also the reason I limited message size on here is to further protect the membership as best I can. -Original Message- From: Mike B. Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 1:20 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re:

[JAWS-Users] jaws issue.

Hi guys i was wondering if anyone has had an issue with jaws win 10 fall. I twice today found jaws just went crazy it got softer and got lots of reverb. And unresponsive. I it is silly i had to hole power button down to shut laptop off. This has hapeened twice today no error messages come

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws activation number

Eric, my jaws ID is 23513 and I really appreciate you picking up on this. I really appreciate what you have done for the jaws software. I have never had any professional computer training and mostly what I have learned has been through the jaws training and blind computer group lists. I am 86

[JAWS-Users] pdf

What are people using for pdf I know you can use jaws ocr can someone elleberate? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

[JAWS-Users] tutorial on jaws ocr

Is their such a beast? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers

This should help. http://blog.freedomscientific.com/2017/10/25/important-information-for-users -of-mozilla-firefox/ -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Justin Williams Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:00 AM To: