Re: Learning Jaws Survey
- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:21:41 -0500
You were very lucky. The people who are more advanced in Jaws usually got
one on one help in the beginning. This is why I think there has to be a
support system built with the software around the country. Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Learning Jaws Survey
> I learned a good deal those first couple of days from my dealer who went
through
> basic things like creating directories, basic windows commands, that sort
of
> thing. He also setup a lot of helpfull stuff like the helpsystem for jaws
> comming up on startup and of course, took care of a lot of the confusing
things
> like a soundcard conflict my computer had and installation of those first
few
> versions.Later stuff I gathered from some helpfull books in my MIS classes
which
> taught specific things like word and excell. You never throw away
anything
> related to help documentation, always write notes and remember where you
keep it
> all.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lois Goodine" <al415@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Learning Jaws Survey
>
>
> My first version of Jaws was 3.5 and there was no one around here
> knowledgeable about it. I found that if I really concentrated, much
could
> be learned from the six-tape tutorial. Later I learned more about Windows
> from other places and tutorials specifically for that. The tutorial tapes
> were a good starting place, especially for someone like me, who new
> absolutely nothing about computers. And the reason I chose Jaws back then
> was partly because, when I was researching to know what to use, I called
> both what is now Freedomscientific and the major competing screen reader
> software company. That one told me they would be happy to send me a demo
> disk and a lot of paper work. As a brand new computer user, I hadn't a
> clue what to do with the disk and had no way to read the paper work at
that
> time. People at FS sent me a sample cassette, which was actually a part
> of the tutorial, and some general info in braille. These were a big help
in
> making my decision. I have no regrets, even though I complain sometimes.
> Lois Goodine.
>
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