[JAWS-Users] Starting Playback

2018-01-06 Thread Tom Fairhurst
I just have to ask this question one more time. Does pressing the Spacebar cause playback to start when you are outside the main window, for example, in the library window? If I press the Spaceb ar in a menu or while doing a search queery in the library, the Spacebar functions the same way as

[JAWS-Users] How to make Winamp the default player

2018-01-06 Thread Michael Massey
Hi, all. On my Dell Xps-1501 laptop running Windows 7 64 bit, Windows Media player tries to launch when I try to play a file someone sent me. The file plays for a couple of seconds and stops. I tried to change the setting in default programs and got nowhere. I went into the Winamp preferences

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to make Winamp the default player

2018-01-06 Thread Tom Fairhurst
I had to refresh my memory, too. It is under general Preferences. Arrow down just once, and you'll see File Types. When thi node is opened, you can work with it as you wish. -Original Message- From: Michael Massey Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2018 6:40 AM To:

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread cheez
Eh, Kevin, how does one do that? Vince - Original Message - From: "Kevin" To: Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook you can set OpenBook to use jaws speech instead of OpenBook speech! it's

Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] ms helpline

2018-01-06 Thread David Ferrin
The most recent versions of live mail are on the programs page, and so is a version of outlook express that works in windows 7 and beyond. -Original Message- From: Steve Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 9:17 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] [jaws] ms

[JAWS-Users] G.W. Cox

2018-01-06 Thread Adrian Spratt
I'm sorry to report that Jerry, who used his formal G.W. Cox name in his posts, died on January 3rd. I don't know if he posted here, but either way, some current members will recall him from another JAWS list. during the years he was an active contributor, he gave accurate, concise and always

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws Key CapsLock

2018-01-06 Thread Michael Babcock
I assume you’ve already switched your keyboard layout to laptop and it’s not working? The first step would be to ensure that you switched your keyboard layout to laptop. The second step would be to ensure that boot camp drivers are properly installed… Let me know if that helps With my best

Re: [JAWS-Users] How to make Winamp the default player

2018-01-06 Thread Michael Massey
Thanks Tom. Your instructions worked. As for the answer to your question regarding starting playback, all I know is that when I pressed enter on the subfolder from within the main folder sent to me, it played using Winamp. Thanks again. Mike M. -Original Message- From:

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread Brian Lee
Hello Vince, To work with the speech settings you first go into the OpenBook Settings menu by using Alt key with G. Arrow down to speech settings and press enter key. This is a multi-tab dialog but speech settings tab should be the tab in focus. Otherwise, press CTRL with tab until the speech

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread Kevin
I believe David the head honcho of this list said press F4. I really don't know, just ever since I installed it Elequis has been speaking. maybe OpenBook has the Elequis voice ! -Original Message- From: cheez Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2018 5:09 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread Dave...Oregonian
Either f4 or spacebar to launch a scan. However if you have Openbook in edit mode, then only f4 will launch a scan. The default Openbook voice is very similar to eloquence, so likely that is what you are hearing. Dave Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer - Original

Re: [JAWS-Users] G.W. Cox

2018-01-06 Thread Miriam Vieni
He was a lovely man whom I knew from the Blind Audible list and the VR Stream Users list. He provided me with an incredible amount of help with my Victor Reader Stream and with using Audible when I was a member. His directions were always clear and concise and he was so very patient. He also

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws on a portable thumb drive?

2018-01-06 Thread Mike O'Brien
Hi JAWS used to have a thumb drive version, but it required the JAWS intercept to be installed on every system that would run it. The latest version of the JAWS thumb drive that I have seen was for JAWS 15. But JAWS 15 cannot be used on a Windows 10 system. -Original Message- From:

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread cheez
Thanks, Dave, I was going to mention f4 is to scan. Vince - Original Message - From: "Dave...Oregonian" To: Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2018 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook Either f4 or spacebar to launch a scan.

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread cheez
Thanks, Brian. Vince - Original Message - From: "Brian Lee" To: Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2018 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook Hello Vince, To work with the speech settings you first go into the OpenBook

[JAWS-Users] JAWS and Skype 8.1

2018-01-06 Thread wayne smith
I haven't opened my Skype account for some time and I just tried and found that my usual simple opening is gone. It looks like I have to download a new Skype 8.1 and I wanted to know if there are users of Skype using JAWS? I have JAWS 15 on one machine and 17 on another. I prefer simple but that

Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and Skype 8.1

2018-01-06 Thread Inam Uddin
Dear respected friend, the matter of fact is that it has not gone but Microsoft wants it to abandon one day or another! There are 3 Skypes are available at present. Skype classic which most of visually challenged persons are using., Skype app for windows 10 which very few blind people are using

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread Mike B.
Hi Cheddar, Below are steps on how to use Jaws in Openbook: These are steps on how you can turn sleep mode off or make any other changes in the Settings Center for any program installed on your computer without the particular / target program running. Below are steps using Openbook & turning

Re: [JAWS-Users] ***SPAM*** Re: Mouse overs

2018-01-06 Thread Hans Pauli Sundstein
Hi George Martinez. On my keyboard, the key just to the right to the letter l, jump's from mouse over to mouse over. Try it, and activate it with spacebar, and be aware of, that the mouse over kan be structured so it only open's a submenu just under the mouse over you clicked on,3 and

[JAWS-Users] Some help with VLC media player and more advanced features

2018-01-06 Thread JM Casey
Hi everyone. I use this programme for videos and it works better than any others. I use Winamp for audio-only playback as of now and am fiddling with Foobar 2000, which seems very promising. But I would like to get greater functionality from VlC as well. To that end, I have the following

Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook

2018-01-06 Thread cheez
LOL! Make that sharp cheddar. Vince - Original Message - From: "Mike B." To: Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2018 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] openbook Hi Cheddar, Below are steps on how to use Jaws in Openbook: These are