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regarding, LibreOffice (Microsoft Office compatible suite)
Sugar, Please forgive me if I am misunderstanding your situation. As I read your messages am I understanding correctly that you are purchasing a computer from Computers for the Blind for a family memb
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Sugar, Please forgive me if I am misunderstanding your situation. As I read your messages am I understanding correctly that you are purchasing a computer from Computers for the Blind for a family memb
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regarding, LibreOffice (Microsoft Office compatible suite)
Hello. I have some experience in using some of the programs which are part of LibreOffice and they are very good. Writer is the word processor which is very similar to Word. It uses the old-style menu
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Hello. I have some experience in using some of the programs which are part of LibreOffice and they are very good. Writer is the word processor which is very similar to Word. It uses the old-style menu
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BleachBit Inaccessible as of September 16, 2019
Thanks for this update, Brian. It reminds me of Glary Utilities, which I remember being completely accessible many years ago but the program has since become very difficult to use. I never bothered to
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Thanks for this update, Brian. It reminds me of Glary Utilities, which I remember being completely accessible many years ago but the program has since become very difficult to use. I never bothered to
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David Goldfield
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Microsoft Asks Users to Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature
Brian, Thanks for alerting us about this. With later versions of Windows some might argue that there are more efficient methods for accessing a list of and subsequently opening running programs. While
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Brian, Thanks for alerting us about this. With later versions of Windows some might argue that there are more efficient methods for accessing a list of and subsequently opening running programs. While
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Xfinity mail
Hello. First, in the interest of full disclosure I will say that I am a member of Comcast's accessibility team. The app that you're referring to for reading email is called Connect. As I'm not in an o
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Hello. First, in the interest of full disclosure I will say that I am a member of Comcast's accessibility team. The app that you're referring to for reading email is called Connect. As I'm not in an o
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Speech to text in Either Wordpad, or Notepad
Hi, Larry. Dictation Bridge is a free third-party program which allows accessible speech to text dictation using either NVDA or JAWS. David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfie
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Hi, Larry. Dictation Bridge is a free third-party program which allows accessible speech to text dictation using either NVDA or JAWS. David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfie
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Extremely Slow Downloads
I would recommend performing a speedtest at Comcast's speedtest Web site. You don't have to be a Comcast subscriber in order to use the site and it has very good screen reader accessibility. David Gol
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I would recommend performing a speedtest at Comcast's speedtest Web site. You don't have to be a Comcast subscriber in order to use the site and it has very good screen reader accessibility. David Gol
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Extremely Slow Downloads
I would also recommend Comcast's speed test page at http://speedtest.xfinity.com which has very good screen reader accessibility. David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.C
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I would also recommend Comcast's speed test page at http://speedtest.xfinity.com which has very good screen reader accessibility. David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.C
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browser of choice?
I believe that Chrome is the leading browser being used, at least under Windows. It is quite fast and works well with NVDA and JAWS, even if someone is running a slightly older version of JAWS. David
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I believe that Chrome is the leading browser being used, at least under Windows. It is quite fast and works well with NVDA and JAWS, even if someone is running a slightly older version of JAWS. David
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browser of choice?
I agree. For a while it was advantageous to use the ESR release while we were waiting for screen readers to catch up and add robust support for the Quantum releases. However, as long as you're using c
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I agree. For a while it was advantageous to use the ESR release while we were waiting for screen readers to catch up and add robust support for the Quantum releases. However, as long as you're using c
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browser of choice?
Firefox works well with Windows 10 as long as you're running the most current version of either JAWS or NVDA. If you're running an older version of JAWS (I believe prior to 2018) you will likely run i
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Firefox works well with Windows 10 as long as you're running the most current version of either JAWS or NVDA. If you're running an older version of JAWS (I believe prior to 2018) you will likely run i
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help please! sounds volumes go up and down in win10 18.09
Brian and others, I'm actually experiencing something like this using JAWS 2019 and Windows 10 Pro build 1809. When I am browsing the Web using Google Chrome I notice two volume settings which are rel
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Brian and others, I'm actually experiencing something like this using JAWS 2019 and Windows 10 Pro build 1809. When I am browsing the Web using Google Chrome I notice two volume settings which are rel
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Head list representative is looking at the crystal ball with grim: age and learning, recent threads and responses, one thread locked, invitation to an offlist chat
#AdminNotice
Hey, Marcio. Thanks so much for your kind note. I should make it clear that I am actually in agreement with you and Brian regarding the importance of blind users needing to translate a lot of what the
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Hey, Marcio. Thanks so much for your kind note. I should make it clear that I am actually in agreement with you and Brian regarding the importance of blind users needing to translate a lot of what the
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Hi. You wrote ... >But what’s so unfriendly about “to set the value use the arrow keys or type the value?” "enter the name of a document to open or press down arrow for more choices." Here's another e
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Hi. You wrote ... >But what’s so unfriendly about “to set the value use the arrow keys or type the value?” "enter the name of a document to open or press down arrow for more choices." Here's another e
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I agree although I would say that some help files are better or clearer than others, depending on the technical writer or writers involved with the documentation. Microsoft's documentation, while cert
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I agree although I would say that some help files are better or clearer than others, depending on the technical writer or writers involved with the documentation. Microsoft's documentation, while cert
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Thea. After doing some searching I discovered that Dr. Sarah Morley, who is now Sarah Morley Wilkins, has a Web site but her latest book covers Windows Vista and Windows 7, which I honestly would not
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Thea. After doing some searching I discovered that Dr. Sarah Morley, who is now Sarah Morley Wilkins, has a Web site but her latest book covers Windows Vista and Windows 7, which I honestly would not
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Hi, Thea. I am not aware of a Braille textbook which systematically covers the use of Windows 10 from a blindness perspective but that's not to say that someone hasn't produced it. A woman named Sarah
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Hi, Thea. I am not aware of a Braille textbook which systematically covers the use of Windows 10 from a blindness perspective but that's not to say that someone hasn't produced it. A woman named Sarah
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CONTACTS QUESTION
Thea, You wrote ... >So, then, there's no setting where you can just have the computer As far as I know this is not an option with Windows. Whether a contact is automatically added when you reply to a
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Thea, You wrote ... >So, then, there's no setting where you can just have the computer As far as I know this is not an option with Windows. Whether a contact is automatically added when you reply to a
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It worked, Also Comments on the Mousepad
Thea, What I'm about to suggest is somewhat beyond the scope of this list. However, if you have further questions it might be worth subscribing to a mailing list dedicated to Apple products from a bli
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Thea, What I'm about to suggest is somewhat beyond the scope of this list. However, if you have further questions it might be worth subscribing to a mailing list dedicated to Apple products from a bli
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CONTACTS QUESTION
Thea, While I feel that Thunderbird is not difficult to install or set up you should probably stick with Outlook. JAWS does work particularly well with it and offers many more settings which allows yo
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Thea, While I feel that Thunderbird is not difficult to install or set up you should probably stick with Outlook. JAWS does work particularly well with it and offers many more settings which allows yo
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