#jawsforwindows — Public Fediverse posts
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@ernie It is quite nice. I'm about to download the setup file for this month's update of #JawsForWindows Screen Reader let's see how long it takes.
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@[email protected] And I've got - more... If you go to linux.org and tap on the Mint forum, someone's - kinda new - there... Maybe this will give you a hint: I sincerely appologize for the long read coming up (as our attention span collectively shortens into a #CokeMentosMoment - (Reader Discretion Advised):... So this is literally my very first time in #penguin territory after 28 years on a platform of empty promises , uh, #Redmond , anyone?I have to first describe my somewhat unique situation before I can go into the specs of how I got here. As per the situation, I'm totally blind since birth, so the most important piece of software is actually a piece of 'critical spyware' in the sense that it reads the code from various objects to 'draw' my desktop, then speak the contents in focus to me via speech. That's what a #ScreenReader does. In the Windows world, this would have been either #Narrator , #JawsForWindows , or #NVDA from #NVAccess . On Windows since 2006 I've proudly used NVDA to traverse the increasingly evil Microsoft (now hardened) interface. I'm more of a pro-sumer than consumer, so on Windows I used #reaper the digital audio workstation alongside an absolute beast of a freeware+open-source software synthesizer called #SurgeXT from the #SurgeSynthTeam ! And per proper hardware control I got the M-Audio Oxygen 61 MKV MIDI controller last Christmas (No, not the Wham song) to play DAW hosts live in realtime. Per audio editing, #GoldWave was always my main squeeze - from the stupid little edits to extreme audio handling sessions (my favorite audio passion of late (say, the past 4 or so years) is impulse response recording). On a Dell Latitude 5500 acquired about 3 years ago from my brother's friend, it's handled everything I can throw at it. It initially came with 8 gb of RAM, but since updated to 32 gb to future-proof looking forward. I had to retire the battery because when I first got the Latitude, the touch pad + a part of the keyboard were swollen. So I've been on AC power per the past 3 years. Now to the nightmare scenario which I quietly saw coming... I should preface this by saying I Am One of Those that Does Want to See what's happening under the hood, so just prior to Wednesday, February 25th, just 3 days shy of #OperationEpicFury , I had an aggressively tweaked Windows session (complete with only a local profile on Windows 11 Professional) and a heap of registry files + batch+command+PowerShell scripts to totally de-damn the junk, block telemetry addresses+ports, unhide all 177 'hidden' UltimatePerformance power plan settings; Even a customized PS1 prompt with my user name@host name; date;time: Then my command input followed by the output on the next line. Had everything all set and ready to fly. But, as is standard practice in the Windows world, I shut down just before going to bed (almost wish I hadn't...), because:... Thursday, February 26th, - After powering the Dell just to check EMail, I got an awkward message on my screen: "No boot device detected" I just 'quiet'ly 'splash'ed it off, knowing the switch was nigh. Next week, around Friday March 6th, another friend of my brother introduces me to Linux Mint, but not a fully installed copy. It was a 'live' image that I somehow could not install a full copy of Mint to my SSD (quintessentially stateless computing at its peak). I somehow survived with that for 9 days till a bad #Florida #Thunderstorm took my power away! Now that Mint was gone, it twas time to see the evil 'snap philosophy' of 'humanity towards others'. While Ubuntu Noble Numbat was kinda cool, #Orca the #ScreenReader had a very difficult time with it, considering the Wayland experience + non-native snap apps throughout the interface! Twas about 3 weeks ago I'd finally had enough... I remembered people talking about the no-nonsense nature of the Mate desktop, so off to #Gemini I go to talk; He helped me prepare a 16-gb GigaStone USB flash drive - to go from being 'inhumane towards others' to 'from freedom came elegance' (complete with #Wilma (Mint 22 LTS)! He (Gemini) directed me as to how to fully format and nuke the Ubuntu image once and for all! Then, burn the Mint+Mate image to the GigaStone! The #GigaStone is now officially a - #FlintStone ! And - after the successful installation of Linux Mint + Mate with 0 sighted assistance (which is what the modern world silently endorseth), all is well - and - yall just gotta new penguin in your corner! -
Hey, after yesterday's #WindowsUpdate it seems that #JAWSForWindows is once again reading file properties. #Yay
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I am very dismayed to discover that at least today when using either #JAWSForWindows 25 or 26 I can no longer read file attributes such as file creation date, date modified and file location within file properties no matter which cursor I try to use for that purpose. Can this information be accessed with either #Narrator or #NVDA?
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I'm having an odd issue in the latest version of #JAWSForWindows whereby when I execute Jaws Key plus f11 and atempt to activate items in the system tray they're not activating. It's just landing me back on my desktop. What's broken and who broke it? Did I do it?
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This is quite the mystery. Although I muted my home timeline and my sent timeline in #FastSM when it's not in focus every once in a while I'll hear one of its sounders but I have no clue from where it's coming or what it's indicating. It's also interesting to me that when employing the keystroke for mute in the main window of the application #JawsForWindows will verbalize the state of being muted or unmuted but when I interact with the corresponding menu entry in the timeline menu it does not. #NVDA tries its best to verbalize the state of the menu entry but seems to cut itself off. But surprisingly, #Narrator wins this screen reader showdown as it will verbalize the state of the menu entry after having been acted upon. But none of the 3 screen readers reports the state when merely scrolling through the menu. I hope that made sense. #FastSM
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Power users of pronunciation dictionaries, I have a pretty specific situation here. The person I'm proofing for uses actual space characters rather than tabs at the beginnings of his paragraphs, this results in having runs reported by text analyzer every time I get to a new paragraph. Having JAWS speak character count works, but this usually means seeing the space count at the beginning of each paragraph twice unless I turn off indentation indication. Yet, I need indentation indication to report justification levels such as centered or whether or not text is justified. I mark the ends of my sentences with one space. He marks them with two. is there a way I can make one dictionary entry that will allow me to set a sound to play when there are two spaces after colons or other other punctuation marks that normally end sentences? Or do I have to create an entry for every one of these? Just creating one for two spaces doesn't work because it gets triggered when two or more spaces in a row are encountered, so the three spaces my client uses for paragraph starters gets indicated... and we're back to square one. Help? #JAWS #JFW #JAWSForWindows #A11y #SpeechDictionaries #Blind #Screenreader #Technology #Proofreading #Editing
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#JAWSForWindows users, Anyone figured out how to get the usual alt+number shortcuts working properly in the new Outlook? Any help appreciated. Thanks. PS: please don’t tell me to use classic outlook. #Blind #ScreenReader #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind
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Now isn't this most intriguing, when I search for this emoji and put it in my own post #JawsForWindows reads it as 😁 but if I’m looking at the notification that someone liked my post containing such speech output renders it as smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes. Isn’t that peculiar how the same emoji in 2 different contexts is spoken differently by the same screen reader. #It’sAMystery
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What on the earth? When did this manifest? In #GoogleChrome Browser when adding a bookmark using #JawsForWindows I'm unable to arrow up and down through bookmark folders to place the new one I'm trying to add.
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Well, seems as though I'm kind of right. Now the annual license is actually cheaper than the software maintenance agreement. Mercifully I don't have to do anything to address this today as I'm good through 2026 but rest assured I'll be watching for discounts during convention season. Still, I'm curious what my smart friends who use #JawsForWindows are doing in light of this, sticking with software maintenance agreement upgrades for as long as they last or switching to the annual license. Nothing like making things as confusing as humanly possible. #NotTheBestLook @freedomscientific
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To my friends who use #JawsForWindows curious if anyone's encountered this. In the last couple of weeks when I click on a desktop icon to open a folder instead of opening that folder sometimes all Jaws will report is desktop and I won't be or won't seem to be in an area in which I can do much of anything. What is the cause or meaning of this thing?
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Oh, just got an alert there's a new #JAWSForWindows update today. I wonder if anyone's installed it yet. Not saying it came out today just that's when the update popped up and said hello to little me.
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What is this madness that now makes #JawsForWindows verbalize "start button off, start button off" when launching a program or opening a file or folder
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@jcast432 Hahahahahahaha I had fun with that. How did you write the dots out like that? It was a very interesting experience reading that with #JawsForWindows. Very clever. 🤗
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I just used the #JawsForWindows #PictureSmart feature to describe an item on EBay to me and it worked flawlessly. Just to be able to do such a thing without having to bother another human makes me feel a bit emotional. Thank you @freedomscientific for such literal freedom.
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Glory me I just opened #Thunderbird for the first time in ages and it's worse than bad with #JawsForWindows. The lag is simply unbearable. Are people still using that client at all? If so how?
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#JAWSForWindows reads "April 3, 2 Pm" as "April third, second PM". The date translation thingies have honestly needed work for a long time now.
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Good evening, #JAWS users. Have a question. How does one configure #Windows11 such that the list of system tray icons is always fully expanded? Thanks in advance for any help. @freedomscientific #JAWSForWindows #JAWS2024 #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #LowVision #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind @main