Hello Roger, Press escape to close the tutorials window. If that does not work, no upgrading to JAWS 12 is not necessary – you can use the NVDA screen reader for free from www.nvda-project.org. Download the latest stable NVDA installer for Windows. NVDA is free, open source, and almost as high quality as JAWS in my opinion. It works great on my end with Sodbeans. Mike From: Roger Woolgrove Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 6:23 PM To: Java blind programming Subject: Sodbeans accessibility Hi all, I've downloaded and installed the latest Sodbeans, read the tutorials and ready to get started. However, once I've pressed escape twice to get rid of the tutorials windows everything goes silent including jaws. I'm using Windows XP with Jaws 9 and have the java access bridge installed for use with other software. So can anyone help? Is there a better version of Sodbeans and some tutorials somewhere to cope with any differences? I also have a Macc running Snow Leopard and could use that yet again, I would like to have tutorials to hand. Desperately in need of assistance Roger