RE: help with jaws and windows seven?
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:35:23 -0400
Yes, in reverse order:
Go into the bios, have someone read it to you of course, and turn off media
keys. That will re-enable all your F keys.
Now, with regards to the start menu. Sorry man, no more classic start menu ...
I know, it sucks, but it's ok.
Check this out: that search field is insanely useful. Just hit start, and just
type in winamp. Hit enter, don't even wait for jaws
to read anything ... Winamp will come up. It sometimes takes a few hours or a
few days for it to index everything, but you have
keyword access to all of your applications and documents, directly in front of
you at your finger tips.
You want firefox, just type the first couple of letters: bam! It comes up, hit
enter.
It even does synonym search ... So for example, let's say you know that you
want screen reader stuff, you can type in "screen
reader", and the first option is "use screen reader", the next one is "change
the narrator voice", etc, etc ...
Also, it's like a virtual run dialog box too. Just type cmd, and hit enter,
you're in a command prompt. You can obviously type web
URI's in there like "www.google.com" and you've got google in front of you.
If you ever want the run dialog box, you can always hit windows+r to bring it
up like before.
Hope this helps?
Take care,
Sina
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:21 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: help with jaws and windows seven?
Hello all,
I have a few questions.
I'm used to going directly to my start menu, and hitting say, w for wimamp.
Now in seven (Transitioning from xp to seven), w or any other letter puts me in
some search box.
I just used s for shutdown, and I got lots of weird results, none of them
having to do with shutdown. Is there a way to like... fix
this start menu?
Also, I have a dell, and for whatever reason my f1-f12 keys don't work, so
things like ins+f11, alt+f4, ins+f12 and that don't work.
Is there a way to fix this?
Any accessibility tips people can give me for seven would be great.
Thanks,
Ty
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