Re: Connecting to WIFI with JAWS

  • From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:49:32 -0800

Hi,
I'm glad that you found an alternative solution that works for you.  Sounds 
like it should work.
Tom

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan Clendinen 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:23 AM
  Subject: re: Connecting to WIFI with JAWS


  Tom,

  I'm using Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, and the latest JAWS 11. I'm 
familiar with the Tools/Internet Options and the Connections tab, but while 
choosing the "Never Dial a connection" option may solve the problem, it makes 
it more cumbersome to switch back to a dial-up connection. I figured out a more 
convenient solution:

  I simply set my default home page address to an HTML file stored on my 
computer's hard drive, so when I launch the browser, it doesn't automatically 
try to connect to the web via the dial-up connection. As long as I first 
connect to a WIFI access point before giving the browser a web address, it will 
connect to it via WIFI.

  Alan

  Tom wrote:

  Okay.  I've forgotten which flavor of Windows you're running, so you may need 
to look around a bit if you're not using XP.  To disable a dialup connection:
  1. Open IE8, then open the Tools menu and go into Internet Options, or you 
can access Internet Options from Control Panel.
  2. Switch to the Connections Tab by pressing ctrl+tab repeatedly until you 
get there.
   Pressing ctrl+tab four times oughta do it.
  3. Tab several times until you get to the radio button that controls whether 
or not a dialup connection is attempted.  Set this radio button to "never dial
  a connection".
  4. Click OK, then exit Control Panel if you went in that way.

  That should do the trick.

  Tom

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