In my personal opinion, the Windows 8 start screen is almost completely useless to a blind user. The Windows7 start menu is many orders of magnitude much more useful to both sighted and blind Windows users. It is for this reason among others that I, the early Win8 adopter, I dumped Win8 and returned to Windows7.
With that said, I had your similar problem, and my solution on Win8 was to create a folder on the desktop and attach a hotkey to quickly open the folder. Within that folder was a shortcut to all the former "Accessories" items as well as shortcuts to other commonly used Windows features. I used first letter navigation to quickly find what I wanted to launch. I'll be very interested to read solutions posed by others. <Smile>. Joseph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Lee" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:13 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] organizing computer I have windows 8.1 and I’m using jaws 15. when I got my computerin the start menu usually there is an accessories folder with calculator, notepad, paint etc. but on my computer I have no accessories folder, the calculator is in the start menu itself. anyone know how I can create an accessories folder myself to remove some clutter in the start menu and organize. Email is golden!!! Kevin Lee For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
