Daily Tip:
Remove Desktop Icons
Over time, the Desktop on your computer can become cluttered with icons for
applications and shortcuts. If you don't use a particular icon, select it and
drag the icon to the Recycle Bin. Note the deleting a shortcut does not delete
the application it is
Hi graham;
I am running Jaws 13 on a windows 7 32 bit machine.
I have the same problem, it keeps saying not selected.
It works correctly in jaws 12, so it must be a bug in 13.
From Jim
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I have tried FoxIt and Sumatra. Both are small, fast PDF readers, that can
run rings around Adobe Reader. Unfortunately, neither works with Jaws or
NVDA. With FoxIt, all of the menus are very accessible, just not the PDF
content. I have tried contacting FoxIt Software, in an attempt to have
Am running the recent update of Evernote 4. It appears to work better than
3.5 did, as you can actually configure the note list to a simple list form
that obeys normal rules. Notes read smoothly if they are text.
I am trying to use the OCR feature available where you're supposed to be
able
May I just say that dragging and dropping may not mean a lot to a lot of
people on this list and that rather than doing that to unwanted icons on the
desktop, which is not easily done for a blind user, it would be mush easier
to select them and and then press the delete key.
Graham
My son has created a JAVA program for my use, but I cannot read buttons and
edit boxes with JAWS.
Can JAWS be used with JAVA?
Are there scripts available for this? If there are scripts on the Scripts
page, I missed them.
Blessings,
Tom
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Hey Gang,
Here is a little program that goes on the root of a thumb drive or your
external drive.
All you have to do is copy the .exe to the main folder, or the root of
whatever you want to remove.
When you get done using your thumb drive press enter on eject and it closes
everything down, so
Have you installed the sun java bridge? This allows screenreaders to interact
with java. Also if your sun didn't use the swing classes it won't work well
either.
Java is not particularly screenreader friendly.
Regards
Tom Bisset
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From:
Hi,
Tom, install Java Access brage.
just look it up on google and you will find instructions.
With best regards, Adi.
Regards,
Adi.
-Original Message-
From: Tom Vos
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:46 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Using Java
I don't write them I simply post them. Yes you're correct but since the
world is mostly sited and instructions are written accordingly I figure it
is safe to say that we all know that on here and are able to make the
conversion in our minds.
David Ferrin
Most people don't know what they're
Thanks, I'll look it over and maybe post it some fine day.
David Ferrin
Most people don't know what they're doing and a lot of them are really good
at it.
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From: Patti bbk...@comcast.net
To: Jaws jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:02
This site works very good with jaws as well.
GO here:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/scores
here is an example of the tables on the page:
1
2
3
4
Tot
Browns
(1-1)
0
14
0
13
27
Colts
(0-2)
3
6
3
7
19
Go Cowboys and browns! enjoy...
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David this is a blind site and most of us are not sighted hence the reason
for subscribing to it. Also in my experience I dont believe a lot of blind
users are able to make these easy conversions as easily as we may think.
Sorry, but I really like this group but it does annoy me to see
Would it work on an external drive as well?
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Just read that it would work on an external drive. Do you then eject through
the system tray or highlight the drive to eject and use the application key?
Thank you.
Julie
memphis.magno...@comcast.net
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Graham, all you need to do, while on the message, is hit the applications
key and the letter J. This puts you in your junk submenu. Arrow up and down
and put the sender on your safe list and hit enter. You can also arrow down
to mark as not junk and hit enter and messages from that sender
hello.
You may be familiar with say in MS Word if u hit 'insert plus Z' it turns on
quick keys and then u can hit h to jump from heading to heading, T to jump from
table to table etc. I assume such quick keys are also available via JAWS on
other programs on a Windows system.
Where can I find
Running Adobe acrobat reader X with JFW 13 beta, I am getting blank screens
where I used to get text from pdf files. I know the text is there as these
are files I've opened in the past. I've a feeling I've mucked up the
accessibility settings somehow, but in looking through both the help for
Hi John
I have the same experience with Sumatra, however if I save
the file as a text with sumatra's save as text function it
reads much better than a pdf file which was saved to text
with Adobe.
Regards
Fanus
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From: John M. jobhun...@box547.com
To:
Hi All;
I received the information below, from another list for all of you Facebook
enthusiasts.
Hi,
Kim Komando just wrote about this fairly cool application call FTalk. Works
on XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
fTalk is a desktop messaging application that works with Facebook. Just
install it
My apologies but I don't always have the energy to make the conversions
prior to posting these items.
David Ferrin
Most people don't know what they're doing and a lot of them are really good
at it.
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From: Graham Smith g.smith...@rogers.com
To:
Hi Christopher;
the latest version is Adobe Reader X.
You need to disable protected view first to get it to work well with Jaws.
Do the following:
1. From either your desktop or start menu, press enter on Adobe. The
Adobe window is now open, press control + K, to open preferences.
Thank you
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:20:11 +0300
From: Adi Kushnir adikush...@gmail.com
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Using Java program with JAWS
Message-ID: A3FC0B688AD54B2CA7013A9043157723@LatitudeE5410
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1;
Hi Kelly;
Below are some steps that I've typed up for using 7Zip.
To unzip files:
1. Highlight the file or files you want to unzip. They can be both, .ZIP or
.RAR files or, just 1 or the other. This program has the ability to unzip
both types at the same time.
2. Press the applications /
Hi All;
Using Jaws10 thru 13, how do I stop Jaws from reading, link , while
reading with the skim reading feature. Thanks much, take care.
Mike
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I was not aware of that. I will give it a try.
Thanks,
John
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From: Fanus buys.fa...@gmail.com
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] PDF readers
Hi John
I have the same experience with Sumatra,
Its not accessible using a screen reader, at least from where I sit.
If you use a magnification program, it will work.
You can use wlm 2011 and connect your fb to wlm and do the same things this
inaccessible program can do.
Just my two pasos
Peace...
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From:
Hi Kimsan;
I just read on the list that I received the information from, that noone has
had any success with this particular application. Thanks for your input.
Take care.
Mike
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From: Kimsan
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20,
Hi mike, thanks.
I appreciate this.
Kim McNatt-Kelly
Email and facebook:
kim...@cableone.net
Have a wonderful day.
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From: Mike Barbara mb69ma...@charter.net
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Win
http://www.freedomscientific.com/doccenter/archives/training/JAWSKeystrokes.htm
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Thank you Patti! This will be very handy. Vicky
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From: Patti bbk...@comcast.net
To: Jaws jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:02 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Thumb drive eject
Hey Gang,
Here is a little program that goes on the root of a
Perfect, that solved everything. Thank you very much.
Chris B
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[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike Barbara
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:30 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Yes I put that in my message.
I put it on both of my external drives, and 4 thumb drives, and it works
fine.
Patti
Would it work on an external drive as well?
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No
When you put your thumb drive or whatever you are using,
1, when you put the drive in, and you open it up
2, you are in the main list, or root of the drive
3, copy just the eject USB.exe file, and paste there
4, When you open up a folder up, and when you are done with the folder, and
back out
don't worry about it David
Graham shut it!
this is the way I feel!
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there is an application I'm using, I got it for free from somewhere (try
googling it) called USB Safely Remove
it puts an application in the start menu and when you activate it brings up
a list of any USB devices plugged into your machine
it also has a set of menu's, the first is actions in
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