Chris and others who gave advice on this thread: Okay, I was successful at accessing the WIFI icon via the sys tray. Here's how I did it: I pressed the JAWS key + F11, then arrowed down to the WIFI item. I then tabbed twice until JAWS said "Single left mouse button" and hit enter. This brought up the list of available WIFI signals from which to use. The only thing I have to figure out is how to stop Internet Explorer 8 from trying to connect via my normal dial-up connection, because it takes time for it to figure out that there is no telephone wire connected. When Internet Explorer finally figures out there is no telephone connection, it gives me a connect button, which forces it to connect via the WIFI connection. There must be some configuration setting I need to change, but I haven't found it yet. Anyway, thanks for all your assistance. Alan