Here are some instructions for using Nero with a screen reader which I copied off the web some time ago. David Griffith
Instructions for using Nero with Jaws Introduction This step by step guide will show you how to perform different tasks in the Nero - Burning ROM software. It is not an in depth training guide on all aspects of Nero, however it should be enough of a guide to allow you to do the things you need to do. This guide will cover the following areas * Difference between CDR and CDRW disks - If you are confused about the different types of Compact Disks out there, read this section. * Copy all types of CD's - If you want to make a copy of an audio or computer CD, this section should help you out. * Creating your own custom audio CD's - If you've downloaded mp3's or wav files from the internet and you want to put them on an audio CD, read this section. * Backing up files from your Hard Disk to CD - If your concerned about having backup copies of your important documents and other files, read this section. What's the difference between CDR and CDRW disks CDR or CD recordable disks are disks that you can only write too once. These types of disks are the best if you want to make copies of other disks or create audio CD's that will be playable on a normal audio CD player. They are also the cheaper of the two types of CD's. CDRW or CD Rewritable disks are disks you can write to up to one thousand times. These types of disks are good for backing up files on your hard disk or transferring a lot of files from one pc to another. CDRW disks are the more expensive of the two types. So if you want to backup files from your hard disk, you are better to get CDRW disks. It is better to use CDR disks for other purposes as they are readable on non-computer devices. When shopping for disks, you get what you pay for. Cheaper disks are usually less reliable than the more expensive disks. You'll also notice disks that say 74 minute or 80 minute. The 80 minute CDR disks can hold more data and/or audio than a 74 minute disk. How to Make Copies of CD's If you would like to make a copy of a CD you have, it doesn't matter if its an audio CD or a CD with software or documents. you copy all disks in the same way. 1. Start Nero - Burning rom. Your screen reader should announce "New Compilation dialogue". 2. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "CD-ROM (ISO), 1 of 11". 3. Press the down arrow until you hear "CD Copy". 4. Press SHIFT+TAB and you should hear "Burn tab". 5. Press the left arrow until you hear "Copy Options tab". 6. Press TAB until you hear "Drive with source CD". NOTE: Some people have both a CD-ROM and a CD writer drive in their computer, having both a reader and a writer drive makes it faster and easier to copy disks. Unfortunately those of you that are using laptops will most likely only have one drive. This isn't a real problem, just makes copying CD's a bit slower. If you only have the CD writer in your computer, the "Drive with source CD" box will only have the one selection. If you have both a CD-ROM and a CD writer, using the up and down arrows will allow you to select dthe drive that contains the disk with the files you want to copy from. 7. Use the up and down arrows to select the drive that contains the CD you want to copy from. 8. Press the TAB key until you hear "Copy button". 9. Now you need to put the CD that you want to copy in the CD-ROM drive and the blank CD in the CD writer drive. If you only have one drive, put the CD you want to copy in, Nero will prompt you at the point at which you need to put the blank disk in the CD writer. 10. Press the SPACEBAR to begin the copy process. NOTE: If you are using Jaws for windows, its suggested that you change the screen echo to "None" while the CD is being copied as JFW will continually speak the percentage values appearing on screen. To change the screen echo setting in JFW, hold the JAWS KEY down and press S twice. JFW should say "none". Don't worry about knowing when the copy is finished as Nero will play a sound to indicate the copy is finished. 11. Once the copy is complete, you will hear Nero make a noise. TAB until you hear "Done button" and press ENTER. Nero should then eject the CD from the writer drive. Note: If you changed the screen echo to "None" in the previous step, you'll want to press JAWS KEY+S until it says "Highlighted". Congratulations, you've just copied a CD! Creating Your Own Custom Audio CD's Creating your own audio CD's from scratch is a bit more involved than copying a CD. This section will give some step by step instructions on how to create an audio CD from sound files stored on your hard disk. This section does not cover where to get these files or on how to download them. 1. Place a blank CDR disk in your CD writer. 2. Start Nero - Burning rom. Your screen reader should announce "New Compilation dialogue". 3. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "CD-ROM (ISO), 1 of 11". 4. Press the DOWN ARROW until you hear "Audio CD". 5. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "New button". 6. Press SPACEBAR, you should hear "audio 1". 7. You are now in the area that will contain the audio tracks you want to put on your blank CDR disk. At the moment its empty. We need to copy tracks from the hard disk to this blank area. 8. Press CTRL+TAB, you should hear "file browser". You are now in a window that works exactly like the Windows Explorer you probably use every day. You need to locate the audio files using the file browser. 9. Navigate through your hard disk using the file browser until you find the audio files you want to put on your blank CD. Note: Its a lot easier if you organise your audio files into one folder before starting Nero. 10. You now need to select the first file you want on your audio CD. Move to it in the list and press CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard. 11. Press CTRL+TAB and you should hear "audio 1". Note: Pressing CTRL+TAB cycles between the "audio 1" and "file browser" windows. 12. Press CTRL+V to paste the file you copied. This will be the first track on your audio CD. 13. Repeat steps 8 through 12 until you have all the tracks on the CD that you want. Remember that depending on the length of your CDR 74 or 80 minute determines how many tracks you can place on a CDR disk. 14. At some point during the copy and paste procedure described above, you'll want to know how much space is left on your audio CD. Press CTRL+TAB until it says "audio 1". 15. Press CTRL+A to highlight all the tracks. 16. Press ALT+ENTER, you should hear "Audio Track info dialogue". 17. Press JAWSKEY+B to get JFW to read the dialogue. Listen for the section starting with "Basic Track Information" then listen out for "Total Time". The time that is announced is the total time taken up by the selected tracks on the blank CDR. This time must be below the total time on the blank CD. Eg. If you have an 80 minute CD, this time must be less than 80 minutes. 18. Once you've finished reading the information on this screen, press ESCAPE. You should hear "audio 1". You are back in the window containing the list of tracks that will be placed on your blank CDR disk. 19. Use the up and down arrows to move to a track that you want to remove. Removing tracks is the only way to get the total time under the limit. Once you are on the track you want to remove, press the delete key. The track will disappear from the list. Note: Step 19 only needs to be done if the total time mentioned above is over the time limit on the CDR disk. 20. Repeats steps 15 through 19 if you need to remove more tracks. 21. We are almost there. To write the tracks to the blank CDR disk, press ALT+F to go to the file menu. 22. Down arrow to "Write CD" and press ENTER. 23. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "write button". 24. Press the SPACEBAR to begin the Write process. Note: If you are using Jaws for windows, its suggested that you change the screen echo to "None" while the CD is being written as JFW will continually speak the percentage values appearing on screen. To change the screen echo setting in JFW, hold the JAWS KEY down and press S twice. JFW should say "none". Don't worry about knowing when the write is finished as Nero will play a sound to indicate it has finished. 25. Once the write process is complete, you will hear Nero make a noise. TAB until you hear "Done button" and press ENTER. Nero should then eject the CD from the writer drive. Note: If you changed the screen echo to "None" in the previous step, you'll want to press JAWS KEY+S until it says "Highlighted". Congratulations, you have just created your own audio CD, you should be able to place the CD in any CD player and listen to your music! Backing Up Files from your Hard Disk to CD As stated in the introduction, its better to use CDRW disks for backing up files on your hard disk as they can be reused again and again. The steps below will show how you would back up your "My Documents" folder from your hard disk to a CDRW disk. 1. Place a blank CDRW disk in your CD writer. 2. Start Nero - Burning rom. Your screen reader should announce "New Compilation dialogue". 3. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "CD-ROM (ISO), 1 of 11". 4. This is the correct format for a CDRW disk, so press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "New button". 5. Press SPACEBAR and you should hear "iso1". You are now in the blank area that will hold the files and folders you want to put on your CDRW disk. You'll notice that if you use the up and down arrows, it will actually say "NEW". The first and only item in this list at the moment is a label given to the CDRW disk. At the moment the label has the text "NEW". 6. Lets change the label, from "NEW" to something more descriptive of what we plan to put on the CDRW. Press the F2 key, you should hear "Edit, NEW". 7. Type a new label for the disk, you can enter up to sixteen characters and you'll hear a ding noise if you enter too much text. Press ENTER to accept the entered text. You'll be placed back in the "iso1" area. At this point you need to find out how much space you have left on the CDRW disk. To find this information you need to open the Medium info screen: 8. Press CTRL+I to open the medium info screen. 9. Press JAWSKEY+B to read the screen. You are interested in the "available capacity" value in megabytes. This value is the amount of data you can write to the CD. 10. Press ESCAPE to return to the ISO1 window. Now you can go ahead and put additional information on the CD: 11. Press CTRL+TAB, you should hear "File Browser". 12. Using the normal windows explorer procedure, find your "My documents" folder in the tree view. 13. Press CTRL+C to copy the folder. 14. Press CTRL+TAB, you should hear "iso1". 15. Press CTRL+V to paste the folder and all its contents to the "ISO1" area. At this point you need to check and make sure you haven't put too much information on the CDRW. CDRW disks have size limits just like CDR disks do. 16. Make sure your in the iso1 window, if your not press CTRL+TAB. 17. Press CTRL+A to select all the files. 18. Press ALT+ENTER to open the properties window. 19. Press JAWSKEY+B to read the screen. You are interested in the "total data to be written", the megabyte value needs to be less than the value you heard from step 9. 20. We are almost there. To write the tracks to the blank CDR disk, press ALT+F to go to the file menu. 21. Down arrow to "Write CD" and press ENTER. 22. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "Write button". 23. Press the SPACEBAR to begin the Write process. Note: If you are using Jaws for windows, its suggested that you change the screen echo to "None" while the CD is being written as JFW will continually speak the percentage values appearing on screen. To change the screen echo setting in JFW, hold the JAWS KEY down and press S twice. JFW should say "none". Don't worry about knowing when the write is finished as Nero will play a sound to indicate it has finished. 24. Once the write process is complete, you will hear Nero make a noise. TAB until you hear "Done button" and press ENTER. Nero should then eject the CD from the writer drive. Note: If you changed the screen echo to "None" in the previous step, you'll want to press JAWS KEY+S until it says "Highlighted". Congratulations, you've just created a CDRW disk containing a backup of your "My documents" folder! Additional Notes Packet writing mentioned at the beginning of the previous section allows you to put a CDRW disk in your CD writer and have it act like a floppy disk. For example, you can simply copy and paste, delete etc files using windows Explorer. You don't need to start Nero at all. Packet writing requires an additional program called "IN CD". This program may have been included on your NERO software CD. Using this method of writing to a CDRW has obvious advantages, but it also has the disadvantage of not allowing you to put as much information on to a CDRW disk. This guide will not go further into packet writing. Return to the Tips & Tricks Page -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Sent: Monday, 24 November 2008 16:40 To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Copying an audio CD with Nero Hello all, I burn all of my audio CDs with Nero, but on my start menu jaws says create with Nero start smart. A friend of mine wants me to copy some CDs for her, but I can't figure out how to do it with Nero. The only way I could do it is to put her audio CD in my computer, and have winamp start playing it. Then I went through the CD, and listened to all of the songs. Then I made a folder, and moved all of the songs from my computer into it. Then I burned the CD, but there has to be an easier way to copy a CD I hope. If anyone could tell me how to do this I would really appreciate it! I'm running windows XP home edition with Jaws 9. Take care, Lisa. 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