Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing the information on the screen before thestart up screen?

Interesting bit of trivia: I knew a guy back in the late 80's and 90's who was the IT guy for a relatively large company. He was totally blind and used a device called a Spequalizer to access his users' computers. This was a hardware device that plugged into a parallel port and could access

Re: [JAWS-Users] CD ripper?

Lisa, I am using CDEX V 1.51 on my laptop running windows 7 with no problem. Darrin -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Lisa D. Porter Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:35 PM To:

Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog

in the form of a drop-down list that you could pick from to add them to the JAWS symbols list. Darrin . Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone

Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog

that cross in the middle. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.comm -Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] suggestion for the symnbols dialog

Here, Here! In my job, I have to type the Maltese Cross symbol all the time and would love to add it to the list (the top of the list, actually). Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602

Re: [JAWS-Users] mp3 converter program

for a format converter, there are too many to name. A good free one is Oxelon, which will convert both audio and video formats. The free version of Switch works pretty well also. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite

[JAWS-Users] Modifying the Symbols List

Is there a way to modify the list of printable symbols JAWS provides through the insert-4 command? I need to add the approximately equal to sign, which is symbols-64 and the Maltese cross which is Wingding-88. Thanks. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services

Re: [JAWS-Users] update on the programs page

David, Is this just the program, e.g., not the videosoft free studio? I discovered when I originally downloaded it a year or so ago that, although the Youtube converter is accessable, the interface for the video studio wasn't--at least not very. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical

Re: [JAWS-Users] Sound file editor

Greg, If you need any tips or a brief intro, let me know. You could even give me a call or something. It's actually pretty easy to use once you get used to manipulating the start and finish markers. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South

[JAWS-Users] Roxio

it to? Thanks. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.commmailto:darrin.por...@united

Re: [JAWS-Users] windows live short cut keys for sending messages and email?

Susie, Try the following: http://allhotkeys.com Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united

Re: [JAWS-Users] MP3 splitter?

the program to split the file at the que points and use the que point names as the split file names. Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone

Re: [JAWS-Users] MP3 splitter?

for a moment of silence and pressing ctrl-Q to drop a Que point. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax

Re: [JAWS-Users] word document conversion part two.

Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.comm -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun

Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS keystrokes for changing volume on a loaded GoldWave file

Derick, Pull down the effects menu (alt-c) Select the volume submenu by arrowing to it or pressing the letter u. The first choice on this menu is change volume. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa

Re: [JAWS-Users] Reading The Clipboard

Thanks, Brian. I will deffinately check it out. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united

Re: [JAWS-Users] Reading The Clipboard

ve very interested in getting a copy. Thanks. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united

Re: [JAWS-Users] Sorting in excel

box does not require you to open the drop-down list with the alt-down-arrow before selecting the column. Tabbing once from here puts you in an identical combo box for selecting the secondary sort column and so on. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C

Re: [JAWS-Users] copy and pasting using word 2007

Select all is control-a, not alt-a. Same for copy. Control, not alt. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax

Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel 2007 and jaws problem

it. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.comm -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list

[JAWS-Users] Formatting A Floppy

I know I've done this before, but where do you go to format a floppy? I could have sworn that it was a menu option in my computer or windows explorer but I can't find it. And, please don't laugh at my need to do such a thing in this age of memory sticks, etc. Thanks. Darrin Darrin Porter

[JAWS-Users] Formatting a Floppy

drive remotely. Guess you learn something new every day. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por

Re: [JAWS-Users] Calculator

in a monthly payment of exactly $1,000.00 Hope this has been helpful. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax

Re: [JAWS-Users] Calculator

Victor, I simply answered the questions she asked. Don't have any idea what she's eligible for. The numbers I calculated are correct, I checked them with a mortgage calculator just to be sure. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour

Re: [JAWS-Users] Calculator

Ann, I verified my calculations with a Mortgage calculator spreadsheet for Excel that I downloaded from the internet. I can send it to you if you'd like. It's pretty straight forward to use if you're familiar with Excel. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean

Re: [JAWS-Users] Calculator

Victor, It's an Excel spreadsheet I downloaded from the internet. I can send it to you if you'd like. Quite straight forward if you're familiar with Excel. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa

Re: [JAWS-Users] dvd audio extractor

any more specific instructions. I have used the program quite a bit. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax

Re: [JAWS-Users] Converting DVD to MP3

functional trial version of DVD audio extractor. I think that it works for one month. I did that and decided to buy the license long before the month was over! Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa

Re: [JAWS-Users] recording with goldwave and jaws

be done by experimentation. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.comm

Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel 2003 and jaws

Elaine, No problem. I sort of figured it out through experimentation. It's a handy trick in other programs as well. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813

Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel 2003 and jaws

so much over the past years that I just know the codes and do it that way. Hope this helps. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular

Re: [JAWS-Users] You send it.com

Larry, I use it all the time with JAWS. I even have the YOUSENDIT tool bar installed in Outlook. Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone

Re: [JAWS-Users] Radio Buttons In Gold Wave

Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.comm -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list

[JAWS-Users] Radio Buttons In Gold Wave

button checked, 3 of 3, when, in fact it is the top button in the vertical list. Again, not all that important, just a little annoying. I am using JAWS 9. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa

Re: [JAWS-Users] how to hide colums in an XL spread sheet

. From that ment, select hide. Unhiding columns can be a little tricky. I have found that selecting the column on either side of the hidden ones and then selecting the format columns menu and pressing unhide works. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601

Re: [JAWS-Users] Creating flow charts that are accessible to JAWS

Annette, Microsoft Project will do what you want. It works marginally with JAWS, but you can create your data tables with Excel and import/export them. I have used it to create many work flow / ghant charts. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601

Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel 2003 formulas

Patti, Would be glad to help, but are not sure what you're trying to do. E.g., what is balance forward? What is pay to? If you can describe in words what you are trying to do, I can easily translate that into a formula for you. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean

Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel 2003 formulas

If that is indeed the case, the formula =H3-E4-F4 should be entered into G4. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 1300 East 8th Avenue Tampa, Florida 33605 (813) 209-4247 (office)(813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por

[JAWS-Users] CD burning With Media Player 11

the process? Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 1300 East 8th Avenue Tampa, Florida 33605 (813) 209-4247 (office)(813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http

Re: [JAWS-Users] ergent help

., all that will be printed on the page, before doing the above. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 1300 East 8th Avenue Tampa, Florida 33605 (813) 209-4247 (office)(813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] Should I have JAVA on my computer?

Java is a programming environment written by Sun Microsystems. It is more than a programming language--it is more like an operating system. Screen readers, in general, don't work well in Java, if at all. If a program is written in J-class Java, it will be completely inaccessible. If a

Re: [JAWS-Users] Extracting audio from DVDs

into mp3, ogg, flak, or wav while it is being extracted. I would download the trial version and give it a go. from Andrew - Original Message - From: Darrin Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:38 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Extracting audio from

[JAWS-Users] Extracting audio from DVDs

I would like to be able to take a DVD, commercial or otherwise and extract the audio from it. I have been looking around for a program to do this, but have had little luck. DVD audio extractor sounds like a good bet, but it wants a file already converted into a MP4, QT, AVE, etc format. So

Re: [JAWS-Users] Extracting audio from DVDs

is this problem occurring during your extraction process? Erin - Original Message - From: Darrin Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Extracting audio from DVDs I would like to be able to take a DVD

Re: [JAWS-Users] excel intro/training materials

Sarah, When I needed to learn Excel, I purchased a set of training tapes from the Iowa Commission for the Blind. They were very thorough and were easy to use. They even included a disc of sample spreadsheets to be used with the training. The materials, if I recall correctly, were about $25

Re: [JAWS-Users] Check This Link Out For Me

Donny, I pasted the link next to the words listen live into IE and got the website, which took about fifteen or twenty seconds to load. The second control on the page is a button labeled listenlivebutton. I hit enter on that button and, after about five seconds or so, Windows Media Player

Re: [JAWS-Users] Check This Link Out For Me

] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darrin Porter Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:12 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Check This Link Out For Me Donny, I pasted the link next to the words listen live into IE and got the website, which took about fifteen or twenty

Re: [JAWS-Users] Copying files from various directories

.) ) (or it might be located in Program Files...) - Original Message - From: Darrin Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Copying files from various directories Flor, I don't think Juice, my

Re: [JAWS-Users] Copying files from various directories

Googling would yield some results? In the meantime, the first solution should work. Windows as standard does *not* have a facility to append files to already existing files on the clipboard. - Original Message - From: Darrin Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent

Re: [JAWS-Users] Copying files from various directories

Ferrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Darrin Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:33 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Copying files from various directories Is there a way to copy files from different directories

Re: [JAWS-Users] Real Player

Try Switch. It works pretty well with JFW and will convert music between many file types / formats. Go to: http://www.nch.com.au/index.html Darrin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Casey McKinney Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:01

Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws 9 CD

Both of mine were bad as well! Darrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/7/2007 1:53 PM I would have to be the unlucky person of the bunch in that both 9 CDs I got were bad. The only reason I'm posting this so as to make everybody aware to check out their disks before tossing either of them away. This

[JAWS-Users] Renaming A Worksheet In Excel

This is very simple and doesnot require use of the mouse. To rename a worksheet in Excel: 1. Open the Format menu (Alt-O). 2. Select Sheet (H). 3. Rename is the default choice (R). 4. Select Rename and you are in an edit box. 5. Type the name of the sheet and press return. 6. The Dialogue

Re: [JAWS-Users] Question regarding importing .txt data into Excel

Perry, I have used this feature quite frequently with little problem. Without knowing more about exactly what you are doing, I can't answer specific questions, but have the following suggestions: When importing a delimited text file into Excel, the delimiter, in your case a comma, separates

Re: [JAWS-Users] text in Ms word and outlook express gets lost

I experience the same problem in MS Word as well. I use GroupWise, so don't know about OE. Also, The menu/tool bars seem to get in the way, obscuring text. I didn't think that you could move the insertion point up into the tool bar area, but it appears that you can. This is even more

Re: [JAWS-Users] Finding the width of a cell in Excel 2002

Ann, In JAWS 8 you must hit insert-f twice to get the complete cell formatting info. Remember, however, that the width is reported in printer's points, not number of characters. Darrin Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives:

Re: [JAWS-Users] Finding out column width in excel

Annette, I just tried it and you are right. Can't believe I never noticed that before. When you press insert-f while focused on merged cells, you get the attributes of the first cell only. I know of no work-around for this problem other than adding up the widths of the columns in which the

Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel pasteing all cell features

Annette, Remember, one thing that will not be adjusted when copying and pasting data from one worksheet to another is the column width. All other attributes, such as alignment, number formatting, font, etc. should transfer okay. This is actually the default, so you really don't need to use the

Re: [JAWS-Users] Finding out column width in excel

only need to press insert-f once to hear the cell's attributes. Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer TECO Ocean Shipping 1300 East 8th Avenue, Suite S-300 Tampa, Florida 33605 (813) 209-4247 (813) 242-4849 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws