Re: Non 24 Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder
Three days? [[wow]]! The longest hangover I've ever had lasted about 12 hours, and since then I just don't drink to the point of being falling down drunk. Besides the hangover, it's not much fun anyway.4:00 in the morning and I can't sleep, again.
Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users
I just looked at Windows update and the only quality roll up listed was this one:Windows Update wrote:2017-11 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 for x86-based Systems (KB4051034)Download size: 124.8 MBYou may need to restart your
Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users
I just looked at Windows update and the only quality roll up listed was this one:Windows Update wrote:2017-11 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 for x86-based Systems (KB4051034)Download size: 124.8 MBYou may need to restart your
Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users
Perfectt timing! I just got notified that updates were available. Though I usually wait until after I do my weekly back up to install any updates, just in case.
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Re: Non 24 Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder
Three days? The longest hangover I've ever had lasted about 12 hours, and since then I just don't drink to the point of being falling down drunk. Besides the hangover, it's not much fun anyway.4:00 in the morning and I can't sleep, again. I've
Re: Weird behavior after installing Jaws.
Hmm. That does sound strange, as far as I know, JAWS is supposed to respect your choice for the default browser.What version of JAWS did you install? I know Freedom Scientific changed to a new installer system with the release of JAWS 2018, maybe
Re: Video Game Novelizations
Oo! Assassin's Creed sounds interesting, I played the first game in the series before I lost my vision.
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Re: Microsoft telemetry tracking, how bad is it?
Ugh! It looks like a major operation to disable this thing as it involves a ton of update patches that were pushed out over the past year or more that have to be removed.https://superuser.com/questions/972501/ … -8-and-8-1
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Re: Microsoft telemetry tracking, how bad is it?
I do use Alexa, and used to use Siri or more rather played with it until I turned it off. But knowing they are both cloud based, never ask anything I wouldn't ask a stranger on a crouded bus.
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Re: Non 24 Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder
Although I don't sing like Dark does, his reason for avoiding smoking weed is a good one and another reason why I avoid it now. But unlike dark, I can't eat it, or more accurately, eating it has no effect on me.Years ago my brother and I were
Re: Video Game Novelizations
There is a series of book telling the story from the Doom first person shooter from the 90s.There are also three books that I know of from the Mass Effect game series.And finally, there are two books about The Witcher, though I believe the books came first
Re: Weird behavior after installing Jaws.
I believe I recall hearing that installing JAWS does set your browser to Internet Explorer because there are still issues with Edge. All you have to do is reset your preferred default browser to what you want after JAWS is installed.
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Re: Weird behavior after installing Jaws.
@prajwalThat Freedom Scientific is a fraud is only your opinion, and honestly, does saying that help answer G-Rad's question? No, it doesn't, it's just you spewing hateful remarks, if you can't say anything nice, try not saying anything at all.
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Yeah, BARD is fairly tight with their content, you can search book share's library all you want without logging in, but with BARD, you have to log in before you can do anything at all, other wise all you'll get is instructions how to get verified to use
Re: Echo dot assistance
Things might be different in the UK than here in the US but, Amazon Prime isn't just the priveledge of ordering stuff from them. As a Prime member you get free two day shipping on all orders that are fulfilled by Amazon. Also there is Prime instant video which is
Re: Seeing AI version 2.0
Probably a bug that got squashed.
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Re: Seeing AI version 2.0
That's very strange. I'll admit that every once in a while I get alphabet soup when I use KNFB Reader, but it doesn't happen very often and usually retaking the picture sorts it out.On the other side of the coin I've never been able to get anything usable out of
Re: Seeing AI version 2.0
@SirBadgerThat is still a valid argument. I also have KNFB Reader and wouldn't part with it for anything. The difference that make KNFB Reader worth the money is where the OCR process is performed. With KNFB Reader the OCR process is done right on your device, so
Re: Echo dot assistance
That button that seems to turn it off is probably the button that toggles the microphones on and off. It's useful when you want to be sure that Alexa won't respond to her name. I use it whenever I leave to be certain that the Alexa service won't be activated while
Re: face id iphone x
I will not give up my hone button, besides working extremely well, it's very accessible.
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Re: get started with amazon echo
There's no holding it. You just set it somewhere reasonably central and go from there. My Echo sits on a tall shelf unit in my living room, it can hear me from the dining room/home office, and kitchen.
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Re: Echos and echo dots: do you have any?
I just bought a second one on eBay because I wanted a first generation model and all Amazon has is the newer and cheaper second generation. I haven't set it up yet but will probably replace my clock radio in the bedroom with it when I get around to
Re: Echos and echo dots: do you have any?
Audible support in Canada is probably slated for a future release.They are always updating the Alexa service and occasionally send new code to the devices. Just a couple of days ago, my Echo said it had received a new code update and had to
Re: get started with amazon echo
There's no holding it. You just set it somewhere reasonably central and go from there. My Echo sits on a tall shelf unit in my living room, it can hear me from the dining room/home office, and kitchen.There is also an online user's guide for the Alexa
Re: get started with amazon echo
While me and the op have different generation Echos, my primary point more than likely still holds true, and that is that you'll need a sighted person to tell you which buttons do what.
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Re: Windows Screen Reader Usage data
JAWS user here, with NVDA as a every once in a great while backup.One thing that always bothers me about NVDA users is that they all talk about how it is free. Doesn't anybody offer NV Access anything in the way of donations? If that is the trend,
Re: Windows Screen Reader Usage data
JAWS user here, with NVDA as a every once in a great while backup.One thing that always bothers me about NVDA users is that they all talk about how it is free. Doesn't anybody offer NV Access anything in the way of donations? If that is the trend,
Re: Echo dot assistance
Yeah, I know what you mean about the music and mostly just stream a radio station. Prime Music is rather limited in that it only has about 2 million songs included and most of those are more recent tot 40 hits while I'm an oldies person. And then there's Music
Re: Windows Screen Reader Usage data
@revanLOL! I can prove you wrong simply by saying I paid for JAWS, and I know a bunch of other people in the JAWS users mailing list that also paid for it. So your statement that no one will pay for JAWS is patently wrong.
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Re: solve captcha
I'll second Dark's recommendation. I also use Captcha Be Gone and can say I've never had it not solve a Captcha, though every once in a great while you might have to submit the Captcha a second time to get a correct solution.
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Re: solve captcha
And while it may not be free, $33 per year for unlimited captcha solves is very reasonable and affordable.
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Re: Windows Screen Reader Usage data
Lucas is right about some things and wrong about others.What he is right about is that you shouldn't limit yourself to testing with only one screen reader. Coding a web site such that it only works with one particular screen reader is not the way to
Re: solve captcha
That is the one downside of Captcha Be Gone, it is by the same people that produce QRead and Chicken Nugget, and their tech support leaves a lot to be desired. I have never gotten a reply from them on any of my support requests for QRead, so I have basically given up on
Re: solve captcha
That is the one downside of Captcha Be Gone, it is by the same people that produce QRead and Chicken Nugget, and their tech support leaves a lot to be desired. I have never gotten a reply from them on any of my support requests for QRead, so I have basically given up on
Seeing AI version 2.0
This might be old news, but, I just checked the app store for app updates and noted that Seeing AI 2.0 was recently released and is now available in 35 countries. Enjoy!
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Re: Seeing AI version 2.0
[[wow]]! I haven't had a chance to play with the new version, but it sounds like Microsoft has been busy as beavers.One thing that handwriting reader might be useful for is greeting cards. They often use fonts that don't OCR very well, but a hand writing reader
Re: site down
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that for several days all I could get from this site were cloud flare errors. Then the errors disappeared and haven't been back.
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Re: solve captcha
Only god and the developer knows, you could email the developer and ask him, but I seriously doubt you'll get a response.
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Re: What's wrong with the guide dog schools
The feeling I get from this is something akin to "the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair". But that's just a feeling and mostly because everyone I know that has gotten a guide dog has had nothing but good to say about the school
Re: What's wrong with the guide dog schools
I also hesitate to get involved in this thread, so I will say this and nothing more.The feeling I get from this is something akin to "the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair". But that's just a feeling and mostly because everyone I
Re: What's wrong with the guide dog schools
I also hesitate to get involved in this thread, so I will say this and nothing more.Everyone I know that has gotten a guide dog has had nothing but good to say about the school and the dogs. And when the dogs I've met were taken out of harness so
Re: What's wrong with the guide dog schools
I also hesitate to get involved in this thread, so I will say this and nothing more.The feeling I get from this is something akin to "the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair". But that's is just a feeling that could be
Re: What's wrong with the guide dog schools
@NocturnusWhile you make some valid points, they also bring up their own set of questions, such as,How do you know nightshade has always been truthful and honest? Do you know him or her personally and can vouch for him, or are you just like the
Re: DZ09 Smart watch
I don't have one of these so I can only offer advice, so.The first thing I'd do is locate their web site and look to see if they have the watch's manual in an accessible format such as a PDF or a Word document, and go from there.
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Re: Self adhesive keyboard bump dots
I've thought of that, the adhesive on these bump dots is easily pulled off as something like a squishy little pad of goo. So I've thought of peeling off the adhesive and asking someone to glue them on with some kind of strong glue, like super glue or
Self adhesive keyboard bump dots
I've been using these self adhesive keyboard bump dots from Maxi Aids to help with navigating my keyboard. They work, but have one rather annoying problem. Over time the adhesive on them weakens and oozes out from under them eventually requiring that I
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
You are a good one to talk about blind people wanting everything for free. Look at your own choice. Have you donated anything to NV Access to support the development of NVDA?Monthly updates? What's wrong with that?
Re: Why do people insist on spelling my name wrong?
Maybe so, but how many people do you know who use their real life name on Internet forums. Of all the forums I frequent, and all the people I know from them, I could more than likely count the number of people actually using their real
Re: Self adhesive keyboard bump dots
I did and believe I already have a sheet of the small ones. They are good for markihng some things, but are rather large for marking a keyboard.
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Re: Self adhesive keyboard bump dots
I already know the layout of this keyboard, but I've found putting bumps on certain keys very handy for making sure my fingers are in the right place for touch typing.Most keyboards have the F and J keys molded with a bump or a deeper depression than
Re: The Uber Debate
Dark makes a very good point here. When I call for a taxi, I always call a favorite company, by now they and their drivers know me and we all get along very well. Although I usually only need the driver to tell me where we are in relation to my destination so I can get
Re: The Uber Debate
One reason why I don't use Uber is because before they got a license to operate in a local county, they told their drivers to work anyway and if they got cited the company would pay the fine for them. Besides not being a proper, much less legal, way to run a business,
Re: The Uber Debate
Anybody can get on social media and say pretty much whatever they want regardless of whether the story they tell is true or not.The news media, where I get my information about Uber from, at least tries to verify that the story is accurate before they broadcast it
Re: Accessible Script-Writing Software?
Since most scripting languages just use a text file, I use Notepad++. It may not have all the bells and whistles of a dedicated scripting development environment, but it's free and accessible and quite capable to boot.
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Re: describe where your from
Like Nocturnus, I live in Florida, but on the opposite side of the state. Where he lives on the Atlantic side, I live on the Gulf side.I live in a tourist trap of a town called Clearwater which is a part of the Tampa Bay area. It is in Pinellas county which is
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
@DarkAlthough you can find it on some shareware index sites like softpedia or softtonic, it looks like Cedrick Collins' Unlocker is dead. I got a message today when I ran it that there was a new version, but when I tried
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
@DarkAlthough you can find it on some shareware index sites like softpedia or softtonic, it looks like Cedrick Collins' Unlocker is dead. I got a message today when I ran it that there was a new version, but when I tried
Re: Should I give up?
I've always heard it said that it's easier to get a job once you already have a job. So to start out, try looking for a job in a setting specifically for the blind. The work is usually meanial assembly jobs that don't need vision to do and the pay is probably minimum
Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
I totally disagree, even though I wasn't blind, I did have poor vision. My parents forced me to go to a mainstream school despite my complaints about problems like being assigned a seat in the back of the class room where I had zero
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
If you decide to try CCleaner, beware!First off, CCleaner isn't exactly what I'd call screen reader friendly, while object navigation will help you get farther than you normally would without it, you'll run across options
Re: Does Anyone Have A Solution to this Problem
I do perform a registry clean up after uninstalling a program, but I do it manually using regedit, that way I know for certain that the registry entries being removed are safe.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Hmmm. Maybe I'll try it again, I admit it's been at least a year since I last tried it.After uninstalling the last attempt, I sent Piriform an email detailing many of CCleaner's many accessibility issues at the time, but
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
There no free upgrades unless you bought a SMA back when you bought version 13, and that would only get you up to version 15.If you didn't, not only will you have to pay $150 for the upgrade to 2018, but you'll have to pay
Re: Free Windows 10 Upgrade for Assistive Technology Users Ending Dec. 31
Ouch! Well, at least Microsoft isn't charging as much for Windows 10 as they used to with earlier versions.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Maybe it's friendly to NVDA but not very friendly to JAWS. I'm not switching screen readers just so I can run one program that I've already pretty much replaced with alternatives.Either Piriform makes CCleaner accessible
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Maybe it's friendly to NVDA but not very friendly to JAWS. I'm not switching screen readers just so I can run one program that I've already pretty much replaced with alternatives.Either Piriform makes CCleaner accessible
Re: Ordering Grocerys
I just discovered this on the Blind Bargains web site in the Classifieds section. If you live in the US, it might be worth checking out.Blind Bargains Classifieds wrote:Free Online Shopping Software + Free Payment Card ReaderThe PayWithChip Marketplace is a new, easy
Re: Monthly chat November 2017
Because of all the talk about the accessibility bugs in iOS 11, and that it runs slow on anything less than an iPhone 7 series device, after doing some poking around and researching, I have found a way to block all iOS updates and their notifications and
Re: why can't you use asio with a screen reader?
This may be a silly question but, What the fricking heck is asio???
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Try going through the start menu and navigating to the Star Trek Final Conflict folder and see if there's a shortcut to the uninstall there instead of going through the control panel.
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Re: Free Windows 10 Upgrade for Assistive Technology Users Ending Dec. 31
The sad thing about all this is that after 30 years, you'd think that Microsoft would know how to write a decent operating system, yet it seems they still don't know how to get it right.
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Re: Monthly chat November 2017
Even when I had some vision, I gave up on fireworks displays when I was 12 or 13 because they were such a hassle to get to and to get home from that it just wasn't worth it for the entertainment the fireworks offered. So I'd just climb up on the roof of our
Re: I'm looking for a decent laptop, any suggestions?
My Dell Latitude has high definition audio, but since I only installed the sound drivers that come with Windows, I never had any issues with audio enhancements making my TTS voices sound like crap.Yeah, the Dell Latitude may be bulky
Accessible Daisy book creation?
I have in mind to convert a couple of books I enjoyed as a kid to Daisy books so I can enjoy them again.Is there an accessible program for Windows that can take a text file as input and with my guidance, convert to Daisy format with all the navigation
Re: Accessible Daisy book creation?
That plug in for Word sounds interesting. And if it isn't too much, I'm not opposed to a paid for product.
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Re: Accessible Daisy book creation?
At $150 or more, Book Wizard Producer is not only more than I'm willing to pay for a tool for a project that is mostly just for personal enjoyment rather than something I'm going to do full time. Book Wizard Producer is also designed for producing
Re: what system image recovery app would you recommend me to use
Although I'm running Windows 7, I believe this would apply to Windows 8 and 10 as well. I use the built in Backup & Restore app in the control panel. I have it create both file by file and image backups. The file by file
Re: Video Game Novelizations
The Doom and Assassin's Creed series is on Book Share. That being said, I don't think it would be appropriate to provide copies of them. Sorry.
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Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users
I saw something that said that Microsoft has been rolling out various components of Telemetry since some time in 2016, so for one to two years.
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Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users
I saw something that said that Microsoft has been rolling out various components of Telemetry since some time in 2016, so for one to two years.And consider this, don't you think that if Microsoft was actually key logging everyone that there'd
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
@tjtBARD book are not in Daisy text format, they are closer to books from audible.com in that they are audio records of someone reading the book.---You would think that there would be a player for desktop PCs or Macs because on the individual book pages
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
@tjtBARD books are not in Daisy text format, they are closer to books from audible.com in that they are audio recordings of someone reading the book. My understanding is that they are encrypted MP3 files with additional files that provide the ability to
Re: Echos and echo dots: do you have any?
That might be a good description of the second generation Echos, but the first generation are built with a metal shell, probably aluminum, with a rubberized skin.If you decide on an Echo I'd recommend going on eBay, you can still get brand new
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
@nidza07You must have a really slow internet connection, I've never had JAWS take more than five minutes to install, even on a freshly set up clean system with nothing but Windows on it.
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Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
@nidza07You must have a really slow internet connection, I've never had JAWS take more than five minutes to install, if even that long, usually only a couple of minutes is all it needs. Even on a freshly set up clean system with nothing but
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
All I can say is I've never had any problems installing or using JAWS. I can't honestly say the same for NVDA, though mostly, the problems I have with it are trying to use features built in to JAWS that are simply not there in NVDA. That is
Re: I'm looking for a decent laptop, any suggestions?
Before I lost my vision I worked for a company that issued laptops to most of its employees. They issued me a Dell Latitude D830, I remember it being a solid no frills performer. So after I lost my vision and decided to abandon my
Re: Weird behavior after installing Jaws.
You never know when two programs simply don't like each other and refuse to get along.If NVDA is working for you, unless you like having an alternate available, why bother with it if it won't play nice?
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Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
You are correct in that this topic started out talking about installing, but it didn't stay there, you yourself turned it into to a JAWS bashing session in message 5, so I decided to defend my choice of screen reader. If you don't want a
Re: what is this program and how can i get that?
After googling "pack extracter", I found that this is a tool that allows you to unpack resource files for some game so that you can modify them. The game it is for is mentioned only by the acronym M2TW, I believe the TW stands for Total War.
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
For what it's worth, Freedom Scientific changed to a new installer system beginning with JAWS 2018. Even though I don't have any issues with it, I don't like the new installer. The old installer allowed you to select which components got
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
For what it's worth, Freedom Scientific changed to a new installer system beginning with JAWS 2018. Even though I don't have any issues with it, I don't like the new installer. The old installer allowed you to select which components got
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
My complaint about not being able to choose components not to install comes from the size of JAWS. If I allow only JAWS itself to be installed, it is less than 20 MB, but if I allow the remote access components to be installed, the size jumps
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
Unfortunately, I don't know when Freedom Scientific introduced JAWS' convenient OCR. I started using JAWS at version 15 and convenient OCR was already in that version.
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Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
I just checked Freedom Scientific's web site. On the JAWS download page they have a combo box that lets you read the what's new for different versions of JAWS.From that I was able to discover that convenient OCR was introduced with version
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
I already did, they basically said that they thought it would be better to have a simple install than to give users any options.About as bad as Microsoft and Windows Update in Windows 10.But you are right, these days, 100 MB is hardly
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Ah, OK, I guess I can blame book share for the confusion because when you go to download a book from them, you can either choose Daisy text or MP3 audio, so I thought Daisy was a text only format.
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Re: what system image recovery app would you recommend me to use
Good point! My system is a 32 bit system. However here is a thought and something you could try. To Backup & Restore an image file is just data, so it should be possible to use a 32 bit Windows PE to restore a 64 bit image
Re: Can't install jaws 2018 no matter what I do
After googling the error code, it appears that this error occurs when there are problems with Windows Installer and Windows Update. All of the articles I found were for Windows 7, not 10. I'd suggest contacting VFO technical support as the
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
As a home user Office support isn't all that important. I wouldn't even have Office, if it wasn't for Microsoft's Home Use program that was available through my last employer. Through it I was able to get Office 2010
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