if only, if only, you knew this sister of mine, who claims since she's 65 she reserves the right to not learn new stuff,lol Nice thought here, no way would she be going for this,grins
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris and Chris" <chipmu...@gmx.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] ADD Shield? Adshield is indeed still available from jfwlite and can be used. since I switched to firefox for my default browser, i have not used Adshield with Ie in a while. However, when i last installed and used it, it did still help reduce popups as it always had. Adshield can be used parallel to ie's popup blocker. I am wondering, though, if your sister might not be better off trying out nvda for a screenreader parallel to her jaws 7. And remember that if she has jaws 7.0, she can download and install the update to jaws 7.1 from fs's website for free. I would very muchrecommend doing at least that and I am also recommending trying out nvda. nvda has really been coming off age of late and the beta of the upcoming nvda 2012.1 release has more capability and functionality than nvda ever did. the learning curve for nvda should be manageable for a jaws user as many of the keystrokes are similar. I am not necessarily suggesting your sister should abandon jaws altogether but with such an old jaws version, I think it would be good if she could run nvda alongside it. It would allow her, for example, to use Firefox as a browser and also, if she wanted to, upgrade to ie 8 as nvda works well and reliable with both browsers. since it lacks a video intercept, nvda is fully portable on the one hand but also does not work with some programs that jaws does work with. Also nvda's mouse emulation is not as good as that of jaws's for the same reason. nvda does have ways to get around the screen that jaws does not but its object navigation concept takes some getting used to and I am still not very competent at it even though I am generally quite computer savvy. For many computer users, though, who do their regular bit of chatting, surfing, email, playing music and a great many more things on the computer, nvda is quite sufficient. I just think if your sister learned to use it next to her version of jaws, she could only gain and be moreflexible. nvda can be gotten from www.nvda-project.org and is completely free though they always appreciate donations. hth Doris At 10:22 AM 2/25/2012 -0600, you wrote: >shshshs let's not tell my sister ok? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bharat" <bharat...@yahoo.com> >To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> >Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:14 AM >Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] ADD Shield? > > >adshield is still available from > >jfwlite.com > >however, I don't really think, it would be of much of a use because this >software, seems to have been abandoned. > > > >-------------------------------------------------- >From: "Trish" <pzoell...@tx.rr.com> >Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:27 PM >To: "users jaws list" <JAWS-Users-List@jaws-users.com> >Subject: [JAWS-Users] ADD Shield? > > > This might be a long shot asking if this is still available, but my > > sister > > is still running XP with IE/7 and I think she's only using Jaws 7. > > So, she calls me last night, and is frustrated with the pop-ups, I got > > her > > to turn off the pop-up blocker and she was wanting that program she had > > before her computer crashed this, ADD Shield. I told her I don't think > > it's > > available any longer, but just thought I would ask here. > > I remember it was once on the old Jaws lite site, is that still around? > > I told her she better get inside window's update and hide that IE update > > thingy, or one of these times it's gonna install without her knowing, > > and > > I > > guess Jaws 7 wouldn't work for IE 8. > > This would be a big and I mean big tragedy if she couldn't use her > > beloved > > Google,lol > > > > Appreciate any light shed on this subject.. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Trish > > > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
