Re: Learning Jaws Survey
- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:44:19 -0500
I had lessons for word perfect about 11 years ago. That program helped me
to begin my writing career but the change to jaws was like waking up in
China and being told to speak Chinese. For Jaws I learned pretty much on my
own with the tutorial tapes. Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:36 PM
Subject: RE: Learning Jaws Survey
> I learned all of Jaws from reading the help files, the manual that used
> to come on disk and listening to the tapes. Never have taken a computer
> class or had one-on-one training for computers and I have been actively
> using computers since 1984 when we had a Kaypro CPM machine.
>
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Lois Goodine
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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