Re: [JAWS-Users] Power Point request
thanks will try them out! On 6/28/18, Fernando Gregoire wrote: > Hi, > > This particular training for PowerPoint is free. You can view it online or > download it at: > http://www2.freedomscientific.com/Training/training-powerpoint.asp > > Hope it helps! > > 2018-06-26 18:59 GMT-03:00 JM Casey : > >> Aren't those training materials ridiculously expensive? I was asked to >> evalutate the Office training at my old work. They were ok but imo not at >> all worth the money, especially given the sometimes rambling nature of >> the >> presentation. >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf >> Of >> Fernando Gregoire >> Sent: June 25, 2018 5:43 PM >> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Power Point request >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> I can remember that there's a PowerPoint tutorial with JAWS in the >> Freedom >> Scientific Training web page. >> Unless they have updated it recently, the tutorial explains PowerPoint >> 2003 >> and 2007. However, most of hints for PowerPoint 2007 are valid for latter >> versions, as well as those for 2003 are valid for the earlier ones. >> >> Hope it helps! >> >> 2018-06-25 14:33 GMT-03:00 Paul Mugambi : >> >> > Hello Listers, >> > who can show me how to make and read a power point presentation using >> > Jaws 2018 windows 10 on lenovo laptop? >> > >> > -- >> > my Whats app number is +254 792 746 642 >> > >> > Secretary People With Disability ACT 2018 >> > www.abilitysounds.blogspot.com >> > >> > Disability Activist of the year 2015 award: >> > https://youtu.be/KLPoeG8f73o#Ability remix >> > >> > https://youtu.be/WKWzau-ceO4 >> > www.mugambipaul.com >> > >> > 2015 Disability Activist of the year >> > Malaika tribute award winner. >> > http://youtu.be/KLPoeG8f73o >> > >> > Life time achievement award Winner July 2014 ANNUAL DISABILITY >> > ADVOCACY RIGHTS & AWARDS >> > 2014 "ADARA" >> > . >> > Awarded "Champion of disability advocacy in the emergency response >> > August 2013 by CBM International >> > >> > www.mugambipaul.com >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Skype name: shamgpaul1 >> > >> > 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/ > -- I release all limiting perceptions of myself. my Whats app number is +254 792 746 642 Secretary People With Disability ACT 2018 www.abilitysounds.blogspot.com Disability Activist of the year 2015 award: https://youtu.be/KLPoeG8f73o#Ability remix https://youtu.be/WKWzau-ceO4 www.mugambipaul.com 2015 Disability Activist of the year Malaika tribute award winner. http://youtu.be/KLPoeG8f73o Life time achievement award Winner July 2014 ANNUAL DISABILITY ADVOCACY RIGHTS & AWARDS 2014 "ADARA" . Awarded "Champion of disability advocacy in the emergency response August 2013 by CBM International www.mugambipaul.com Skype name: shamgpaul1 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS
Thanks for the suggestions. I saved your previous email, so I'll go back and take a look at that. One of the computers is running Vista, the other is running Windows 7 and neither have been reformatted, so the driver issue is unlikely. Plus, the Windows 7 computer had the problem from day one, even when not running JAWS or any screen reader. It was my sighted wife's computer and it would shut down sometimes while she was watching Netflix. She got so frustrated, she quit using the Windows computer altogether. She does everything on her iPad now. I have no idea what the temperatures are. I'll have to go find one of those programs that lets me check those values. Thanks again for the suggestions. Jeff On 6/27/2018 9:39 AM, Valiant8086 wrote: Hi. The only computer I had which actually powered off do to temp control issues was an HP Dm4. It had an intel core i5 first gen I believe. It would climb all the way up to 220 degrees. If it hit 221, *click*. What happens here is likely what I believe you refer to as a target junction or tj max for short. It's a max temp the cpu tollerates, if it reaches that, it abruptly powers off. The system should be employing throttling to prevent the cpu from reaching this point but it sounds like your laptops don't bother. TJ max varries, most modern core i processors like 212, intel atom processors were 198 or so, and btw I always speak in terms of degrees f, not celsius. So, I can think of two possibilities at this point. First is that the manufacturers of those machines assumed those machines would never potentially reach tj max while stressed and running at full wattage for ever. If that's the explanation that works, then your solution is to figure out why they do have that potential now. If the exhaust fans are getting clogged a few squirts of compressed air out of a can, not an air compressor may do the trick. I don't recommend an air compressor because it may blow rust or water along with the air and that delicate little fan in there could do without either of those. The other possibility is that the systems were in fact originally designed with software and drivers that would employ speed stepping or some other variation to do exactly what you said, throttle back the cpu when it is approaching tj max. That could probably be fixed by installing a missing system driver. If you've ever clean formatted the system this may be the problem. I suppose it might also be possible that an upgrade to windows 10, even if it was already on windows 10, accidentally nuked a driver that took care of this. I believe that usually the bios takes control of this when the OS doesn't, or doesn't even allow the OS to control it, but I'm also sure it's possible for that to be different. A really old Acer Aspire 3000+ laptop I had way back in the early 2000s used an AMD simpron 1.8ghz processor. It ran really hot all the time. On day I somehow discovered that I was missing a chipset driver or some software package like that which I never apparently installed after reformatting the system early on. That helped make it run a lot cooler, this was before I was into watching clock speeds with core temp and such. You could try setting the max processor state lower and see if your laptops run cooler, a previous email of mine in this thread explains that process. Lastly, you could run core temp and minimize it to try and check it frequently while you attempt to stress the laptops and see what temps are being realized, if they're staying reasonable but powering off then there's probably a different issue at play Cheers: Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com"; On 6/27/2018 12:19 AM, Audiobookfan wrote: This is an interesting thread. The mention of laptops overheating and shutting down especially caught my attention. I thought I might be the only person in the world experiencing this problem, but I have 2 different laptops from different manufacturers which both exhibit this problem whenever they are called upon to do some real work, e.g., checking for Windows updates or scanning for viruses. I get nervous anytime I hear the fan ramp up and it's a constant frustration for me. I fail to understand why manufacturers design laptops this way. Why don't they back off the processing rather than shut down the computer? Is it that I have the power settings incorrectly configured? If so, can someone please tell me how to configure my laptop to avoid these shutdowns? I've not done much with the power settings. I've just left them at their defaults. Honestly, I don't know what most of those settings mean, so I've been reluctant to mess with them. Reading this thread convinces me there are some knowledgeable folks on this list who might be able to help me out with this issue. If you can, I'd be ever s
[JAWS-Users] DecTalk External Synthesizer Problem
BlankTalk of different synthesizers brought to mind a problem I've had for quite some time. A few years ago, something -- either a new Jaws update, or an update to the Microsoft Visual C-plus-plus broke the external Dectalk's synthesizer interface. I vaguely recall something about this on possibly another list. Has anybody encountered this issue and is there a solution? Steve Lansing, MI For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws 2018 update for June
No nothing has been released yet for jaws 2018. I think the last one is for May. HTH. Matthew > On Jun 27, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Dennis Long wrote: > > Hi, has there been a Jaws 2018 update for June? I know sometimes the check > for updates feature doesn't work right that's why I'm asking. > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jaws-users.com%2Fhelp%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc630460972d94a60bd2608d5dc3dc69f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636657080235981138&sdata=1Xcius9cJh7shyvBHoOf9ndubHgYW%2Bmr4DDZl190cj8%3D&reserved=0 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Help in setting up macros in word 2010
Ah yes. Now it's all coming back to me. Developer tools, legacy. We did have a lot of templates, too; I had to check each one of those forms and make sure they were properly accessible. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: June 27, 2018 4:42 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help in setting up macros in word 2010 Hi Al, If all you need is to insert form fields for data whose value can only be true or false, it is not necessary to complicate your life with macros/VBA. A checkbox form field should be enough. Regarding the fact JM described you about form creation not being the same on newer versions of Word, it effectively reffers mostly to an accessibility consideration. In Word 2007 and later, Microsoft implemented a new thing called “content controls,” which have existing functionality of classic form fields but also include capabilities such as deletion when completed which make them suitable for templates and other content reutilization scenarios. The problem, as the Freedom Scientific tutorial for creating accessible forms in Word, is that those new content controls are not currently accessible with the keyboard. Fortunately Word still has the option, in the Developer tab together with the new content controls, a split button called “Legacy Control” which allows you to insert a form field like the ones available in Word 2003 and earlier, which are backward compatible and more accessible with the keyboard and JAWS. Hope it helps! 2018-06-27 15:32 GMT-03:00 Al Sorrentino : > Hi everyone, > > > > I have Jaws 13, Word 2010, Windows 7 and I am trying to create a form > with fields that in the future I can fill in with information. I have > tried several different steps in entering the x's in the fields, but > it's not working for me. > > > > Can someone please let me know a detailed way of accomplishing this task? > Your help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Al Sorrentino > > alsorrent...@verizon.net > > > > > > 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Power Point request
Hi, This particular training for PowerPoint is free. You can view it online or download it at: http://www2.freedomscientific.com/Training/training-powerpoint.asp Hope it helps! 2018-06-26 18:59 GMT-03:00 JM Casey : > Aren't those training materials ridiculously expensive? I was asked to > evalutate the Office training at my old work. They were ok but imo not at > all worth the money, especially given the sometimes rambling nature of the > presentation. > > > > -Original Message- > From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf > Of > Fernando Gregoire > Sent: June 25, 2018 5:43 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Power Point request > > Hi Paul, > > I can remember that there's a PowerPoint tutorial with JAWS in the Freedom > Scientific Training web page. > Unless they have updated it recently, the tutorial explains PowerPoint 2003 > and 2007. However, most of hints for PowerPoint 2007 are valid for latter > versions, as well as those for 2003 are valid for the earlier ones. > > Hope it helps! > > 2018-06-25 14:33 GMT-03:00 Paul Mugambi : > > > Hello Listers, > > who can show me how to make and read a power point presentation using > > Jaws 2018 windows 10 on lenovo laptop? > > > > -- > > my Whats app number is +254 792 746 642 > > > > Secretary People With Disability ACT 2018 > > www.abilitysounds.blogspot.com > > > > Disability Activist of the year 2015 award: > > https://youtu.be/KLPoeG8f73o#Ability remix > > > > https://youtu.be/WKWzau-ceO4 > > www.mugambipaul.com > > > > 2015 Disability Activist of the year > > Malaika tribute award winner. > > http://youtu.be/KLPoeG8f73o > > > > Life time achievement award Winner July 2014 ANNUAL DISABILITY > > ADVOCACY RIGHTS & AWARDS > > 2014 "ADARA" > > . > > Awarded "Champion of disability advocacy in the emergency response > > August 2013 by CBM International > > > > www.mugambipaul.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Skype name: shamgpaul1 > > > > 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence
Yes, Ivona voice have excellent quality. However, since JAWS does not have entries for U.S. Spanish and this is the dialect reported by Ivona voices into American Spanish, JAWS reads punctuation using English names when using some of these voices. These voices, in addition, have the problem I described with exclamation marks. In older versions, you could configure JAWS to let synthesizer to handle punctuation speaking. This is no longer available in Settings Center. Also, like any SAPI 5 voice in JAWS, it often changes voices between PC cursor and tutor messages incorrectly. This problem sometimes happens with Eloquence too, but not very often. 2018-06-26 10:28 GMT-03:00 Russ Kiehne : > I agree, Dectalk is a great synthesizer. I just wished you could still > buy it. > > Has anyone used any of the Sapi 5 Ivona voices? > > -Original Message- From: JM Casey > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 10:39 AM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence > > Dectalk sounded pretty good! Especially considering that synth goes all the > way back to the early/mid 80s and hardly changed at all. I never had any > screen-reader use it though; just the Kurzeil 1000 product back in the late > 90s. > > Wow, that's a lot of ram. I was thinking an upgrade to 16 GB might at least > be in order. > > > -Original Message- > From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf > Of > Orlando Enrique Fiol > Sent: June 25, 2018 12:50 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Good ole' Eloquence > > I actually was loathed to give up my Dectalk Access 32, which I used with > Window-eyes until a few years ago. Since migrating to Jaws, I love the > Vocalizer voices for their high frequency clarity and hum-based phoneme > samples. Having compared the Vocalizer voices to Voiceware, Google TTS and > the latest Microsoft voices, none are as clear and crisp as Vocalizer. My > system does not lag at all with them, but I have 43 gigs of memory and a > solid state hard drive. > > Orlando Enrique Fiole > > > 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Help in setting up macros in word 2010
Hi Al, If all you need is to insert form fields for data whose value can only be true or false, it is not necessary to complicate your life with macros/VBA. A checkbox form field should be enough. Regarding the fact JM described you about form creation not being the same on newer versions of Word, it effectively reffers mostly to an accessibility consideration. In Word 2007 and later, Microsoft implemented a new thing called “content controls,” which have existing functionality of classic form fields but also include capabilities such as deletion when completed which make them suitable for templates and other content reutilization scenarios. The problem, as the Freedom Scientific tutorial for creating accessible forms in Word, is that those new content controls are not currently accessible with the keyboard. Fortunately Word still has the option, in the Developer tab together with the new content controls, a split button called “Legacy Control” which allows you to insert a form field like the ones available in Word 2003 and earlier, which are backward compatible and more accessible with the keyboard and JAWS. Hope it helps! 2018-06-27 15:32 GMT-03:00 Al Sorrentino : > Hi everyone, > > > > I have Jaws 13, Word 2010, Windows 7 and I am trying to create a form with > fields that in the future I can fill in with information. I have tried > several different steps in entering the x's in the fields, but it's not > working for me. > > > > Can someone please let me know a detailed way of accomplishing this task? > Your help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Al Sorrentino > > alsorrent...@verizon.net > > > > > > 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Help in setting up macros in word 2010
I used to be able to do this in Word 2016 at my old work, but I don't think I ever tried it with Word 2010, which I don't have anymore. I also can't really remember the steps I used at the time, though I could probably do some research and/or jog my memory. I believe I might have read somewhere that creating forms in newer versions of Word is not the same, though that could have just been from an accessibility standpoint? Anyway, I know it can at least be done, though I'm sorry that's not much help to you at the moment. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List On Behalf Of Al Sorrentino Sent: June 27, 2018 2:32 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Help in setting up macros in word 2010 Hi everyone, I have Jaws 13, Word 2010, Windows 7 and I am trying to create a form with fields that in the future I can fill in with information. I have tried several different steps in entering the x's in the fields, but it's not working for me. Can someone please let me know a detailed way of accomplishing this task? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Al Sorrentino alsorrent...@verizon.net 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/
[JAWS-Users] Help in setting up macros in word 2010
Hi everyone, I have Jaws 13, Word 2010, Windows 7 and I am trying to create a form with fields that in the future I can fill in with information. I have tried several different steps in entering the x's in the fields, but it's not working for me. Can someone please let me know a detailed way of accomplishing this task? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Al Sorrentino alsorrent...@verizon.net For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] interesting thoughts/finding about CPU speeds, temperature and JAWS
Hi. The only computer I had which actually powered off do to temp control issues was an HP Dm4. It had an intel core i5 first gen I believe. It would climb all the way up to 220 degrees. If it hit 221, *click*. What happens here is likely what I believe you refer to as a target junction or tj max for short. It's a max temp the cpu tollerates, if it reaches that, it abruptly powers off. The system should be employing throttling to prevent the cpu from reaching this point but it sounds like your laptops don't bother. TJ max varries, most modern core i processors like 212, intel atom processors were 198 or so, and btw I always speak in terms of degrees f, not celsius. So, I can think of two possibilities at this point. First is that the manufacturers of those machines assumed those machines would never potentially reach tj max while stressed and running at full wattage for ever. If that's the explanation that works, then your solution is to figure out why they do have that potential now. If the exhaust fans are getting clogged a few squirts of compressed air out of a can, not an air compressor may do the trick. I don't recommend an air compressor because it may blow rust or water along with the air and that delicate little fan in there could do without either of those. The other possibility is that the systems were in fact originally designed with software and drivers that would employ speed stepping or some other variation to do exactly what you said, throttle back the cpu when it is approaching tj max. That could probably be fixed by installing a missing system driver. If you've ever clean formatted the system this may be the problem. I suppose it might also be possible that an upgrade to windows 10, even if it was already on windows 10, accidentally nuked a driver that took care of this. I believe that usually the bios takes control of this when the OS doesn't, or doesn't even allow the OS to control it, but I'm also sure it's possible for that to be different. A really old Acer Aspire 3000+ laptop I had way back in the early 2000s used an AMD simpron 1.8ghz processor. It ran really hot all the time. On day I somehow discovered that I was missing a chipset driver or some software package like that which I never apparently installed after reformatting the system early on. That helped make it run a lot cooler, this was before I was into watching clock speeds with core temp and such. You could try setting the max processor state lower and see if your laptops run cooler, a previous email of mine in this thread explains that process. Lastly, you could run core temp and minimize it to try and check it frequently while you attempt to stress the laptops and see what temps are being realized, if they're staying reasonable but powering off then there's probably a different issue at play Cheers: Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com"; On 6/27/2018 12:19 AM, Audiobookfan wrote: This is an interesting thread. The mention of laptops overheating and shutting down especially caught my attention. I thought I might be the only person in the world experiencing this problem, but I have 2 different laptops from different manufacturers which both exhibit this problem whenever they are called upon to do some real work, e.g., checking for Windows updates or scanning for viruses. I get nervous anytime I hear the fan ramp up and it's a constant frustration for me. I fail to understand why manufacturers design laptops this way. Why don't they back off the processing rather than shut down the computer? Is it that I have the power settings incorrectly configured? If so, can someone please tell me how to configure my laptop to avoid these shutdowns? I've not done much with the power settings. I've just left them at their defaults. Honestly, I don't know what most of those settings mean, so I've been reluctant to mess with them. Reading this thread convinces me there are some knowledgeable folks on this list who might be able to help me out with this issue. If you can, I'd be ever so grateful. Thanks, Jeff On 6/26/2018 2:55 PM, JM Casey wrote: Hello Aaron. Thanks for writing all that. I believe I understand, mostly. It's not a laptop, but a desktop machine. So, no battery. I've only really experienced overheat problems with laptops, but you might indeed be right about the components. Still, my girlfriend's laptop keeps shutting down for precisely this reason. Yes, I understand what you mean about it being ridiculous to have the computer operating at maximum clock when it doesn't need to. I suppose that is the whole point of "throttling". I think you gave me a clue as to why, even though I thought I had set the plan back to "balanced", the speed according to several diagnostics was still hanging around 3500 to 4100 mhz
Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws 2018 update for June
Not yet On 6/27/18, Dennis Long wrote: > Hi, has there been a Jaws 2018 update for June? I know sometimes the check > for updates feature doesn't work right that's why I'm asking. > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > -- "Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments & Black keys are sad moments. But remember both keys are played together to give sweet music." "Focus on your abilities, not your disability." Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starhoze Skype ID: star.hoze Warm Regards, Hozefa... For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] jaws 2018 update for June
Hi, has there been a Jaws 2018 update for June? I know sometimes the check for updates feature doesn't work right that's why I'm asking. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] skipping
Well, isn't it a miracle? My JAWS skipping lines or characters when using the arrows has once again disappeared! Wonderful! But how did this happen you ask? I dunno! But has stopped at least for a while. I will ask again when it returns!LOL For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
