Re: what is best way to learn JAWS and the pc as a total newbie?

  • From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:11:31 -0000
Alex, It is different over here, if you are in employment you get help with your software under Access to work,, however if not or retired you are on your own and need to use your savings to buy help, it can and hold your breat cost " 250 perday or more from the Vendor, so you think I will try local Education center, lady has to have jaws puton a pc, since I wave the DDA act at Charlie the It Manager, poor woman has not a clue, she has aclass full of people I am odd one out, others are all impatient to "keep up with the Grand kids she cannot do it says she will put a few noteson a tape, I had2,then she gave up completely my Local Association for the Blind closed its It Department and resources Center, so I think,I will try and spend a week at Manor House what is Manor House? was note past tense a lovely old house owned by rnib in Torquay lovely Devon, I had to have an operation first and,did not want to delay I paid a £1,000 and went down, on arriving I find 17 members of staff have gone,been made redundant and soon the lovely house once a Red cross home and given to Rnib is to be sold, however I spend the week in bed recovering from left over effects of a hospital which had infections, Well I did get out alive more than many, they at manor house were kind to me even if I was in bed, do I regret the £1,000 ? No,I argued with the Rnib who were closing it down Lady given job said"it was a cash cow,should have been shut down 10,years ago, did the employees at Manor House get redundancy pay? I was told by a rnib volunteer I knew" if it was run as a limited company they could have got nothing it all so that is it it all depends on the way the dice falls. Sorry for the rant. Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:58 PM
Subject: RE: what is best way to learn JAWS and the pc as a total newbie?



I'll tell you what I did and you can see if you can extrapolate anything
from it for your situation.

I did a lot of experimenting and I read lots and lots of help files.  I
listened to manuals on tape and read users manuals in Braille when they
were
available.  One of the biggest helps to me though was having an actual
JAWS
trainer.  My city has a service, (had back then anyway) that specializes
in
teaching adaptive technology.  You may have one too in yours or close
enough
to you for a day or two a week.  I did this and got it paid for through
the
state because I didn't have a job at the time.  Make friends with computer
savvy  (polite word for geeks like yours truly) people and get them
talking
to you and among each other.  Set brain for maximum absorbtion and just
let
'em talk.  And don't be afraid to just get your hands on the thing and
mess
around with it.  Crashes and slain pc's build character.  Once your fists
recover from the desk pounding, once your throat feels all scratchy after
all that swearing and yelling, and once you finally get to bed after
unsnarling a snafu or two, you'll have learned a lot.  It is said that
Edison messed up 99 times before he landed on the proper way to make a
lightbulb.  Said he figured he learned 99 ways to do it wrong.  Same thing
with a PC.

Have fun,

Alex


-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Smart
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:52 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: what is best way to learn JAWS and the pc as a total newbie?

I've never checked out the basic training material, but I gather it
assumes you are new to computers and Jaws.

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