Re: what is best way to learn JAWS and the pc as a total newbie?
- From: "Adrian Spratt" <Adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:39:22 -0500
Rick,
As others have responded, my facility with Windows and JAWS leapt forward
after listening to the then Henter-Joyce cassette tapes, which other listers
say are just as good in FS's current versions.
I'm picking up on your idea that this newcomer to computers is in his/her
fifties and hasn't worked with a computer before. Even these people have a
visual sense of how computers work, despite not knowing how to produce the
same results. I think it's important to demystify the aural aspect of JAWS.
I'm struck by how often people are amazed that computers can speak words,
when to my mind it's just as amazing that computers can turn words into
semblances of print. Such people will have a notion of functions like drag
and drop. It's important to make clear that most visual functions have aural
counterparts, in that case select, copy and paste. At the same time, people
who have had vision shouldn't ignore that they have certain advantages when
it comes to working with computers. For example, they will have visual
memories of what bold and italicized text look like and what role they serve
in written work.
But beyond that, what Ray, Lois and Bruce write is true and very helpful.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik James" <Ohio1803@xxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:47 AM
Subject: what is best way to learn JAWS and the pc as a total newbie?
I just wonder. This may be a question with not any one answer.
But I would ask for input... If you were going to recommend to someone who
is in their 50's or so and lost vision, never used a pc, and now wants to
learn and to learn using JAWS, what is the best and most practical way to go
about it?
Instructional programs, training centers, guides to self-teach. I'd be
interested to hear suggestions. Maybe there is one place to go on the web
for a good resource?
I'd like to know, both for the purpose of referring someone, and to just see
what is out there that I don't know about myself. It seems that my own
self-taught has lots of gaps that keep making me have to re-learn the basics
from time to time.
Thanks. Rik
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