[JAWS-Users] windows defender

2010-05-11 Thread James Flusche
Hi list,I am using the latest A. V. G. with the latest jaws 11 and windows vista. When I go to windows defender, jaws always says it is off. I finally figured out how to make it scan daily, Do I need to have it on all the time to be protected? If so, how do I do this with jaws? Thanks ahead of t

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Annie Hesse
Hi Mo, I will try what you have suggested and wait to see how my student receives them. It has been my experience in the past when scanning a document to send to a sighted person that the only result that was even legible and true to the original layout was if I scanned it to Microsoft Outlook at

Re: [JAWS-Users] help with jaws and paltalk

2010-05-11 Thread Doug Leavens
I tried that link and got the increasingly usual "explorer can't find the page" annoying message. - Original Message - From: lali, desktop edition To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] help with jaws and paltalk D

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Mobeen Iqbal
Hi Annie. HTML will probably maintain the orriginal layout, either that or microsoft word format. The best thing i'd recommend is to experiment and see which one preserves the format best for you based on the result that you want. Mo. Annie Hesse wrote: Hi Andy, Formatting is something

Re: [JAWS-Users] help with jaws and paltalk

2010-05-11 Thread miss lady
how do I in stall the scripts from this page, when I try to install them it tells me "cannot find directory c:\program files\freedom scientific\jaws\11.0\settings\" what do I need to do about that - Original Message - From: "Tim Appleby" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:36 AM Subj

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Annie Hesse
Hi Andy, Formatting is something to consider as I scan English language teaching course books. The pictures that might appear on a page are not important, but what is important is how the page is divided horizontally into sections and sometimes in these sections there are "cartoon-like" conversatio

Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS reading Outlook 2007 message list fields incorrectly

2010-05-11 Thread Don and Cher Bosch
Larry- I've spent some time with FS on this today- and there is a fix if you don't want to set different message views in your various folders. One of the changes in JAWS11 is the ability to control the message view through the utilities managers. IE, press Insert-F2, choose customize Outlook messa

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Baracco, Andrew W
JAWS is a screen reader only. The same company sells a screen magnification program called Magic, but they do not sell one package that performs both functions. Andy -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Baracco, Andrew W
No screen reader will read a document that is simply scanned, because the result is an image, a picture of text, rather than text itself. You will need to convert the result into another format, such as RTF, DOC, DOCX, or TXT. If formatting is important, than you should convert to one of the word

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Mobeen Iqbal
Hi Annie. Its a pleasure to help, that's what this list is here for! Yes, you're right. Jaws is just a screen reader. Supernova is a screen reader and magnification package all roled in to one. Freedomscientific, the makers of jaws, also have a sollution similar to supernova called magic.

Re: [JAWS-Users] help with jaws and paltalk

2010-05-11 Thread Tim Appleby
Hello, here is the corre3ct site, it is www.jaws-users.com. The other one will give you a page cannot displayed message. Hope this helps. Tim - Original Message - From: "lali, desktop edition" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] help with jaws and palta

Re: [JAWS-Users] help with jaws and paltalk

2010-05-11 Thread lali, desktop edition
Dear Miss Lady! Yes, there are. go to www.jfw-users.com and visit the scripts page, and there you will find fine scripts for jfw all versions. God bless you! Lali -- mail: lali.belt...@gmail.com msn: lali.belt...@gmail.com aim: lali.belt...@gmail.com yahoo: lali.belt...@yahoo.com skype: l

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Annie Hesse
Hi Mo, Many thanks to you and all the others who contributed to advising me on this matter. Your explanation was very clear and thorough. I have been obsessed with this question for days. I'm happy and relieved to inform you all that my student was able to open the TXT files I sent her! I've got

[JAWS-Users] help with jaws and paltalk

2010-05-11 Thread miss lady
hi all, I wanted to no if there are any updated scripts for jaws with pal talk, I have pal talk 9 point something and jaws11. The scripts I have don't read hardly anything. if anyone can help me with this please and thanks. miss lady For answers to frequently asked questions about this list vis

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dictionary Manager

2010-05-11 Thread Nicole
Yes, I agree. I just wasn't sure if there was another way. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Brian Lee" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dictionary Manager Hello Nicole, Probably the quickest way is to use the merge utility once you have installed th

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Hans Pauli Sundstein
Hi Annie. In addition to what has been written, i can say, that it is necessary to perform ocr on the scanned document, before it is readable for any screen reading application or braille display. So be sure of, that you have run the "Perform Ocr" and than exported the result to the wanted fil

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Ishe Chinyoka
Yes JAWS can read PDF files provided that the computer the student is using has got a program to handle the PDF files. She may not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on her PC. However, you can try converting those documents into plain text which can be opened in any word-processing applicati

Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Mobeen Iqbal
Hi Annie. Jaws is just simply a screen reading application. This means that the content that is in a text file will be read to your student, and unless she has a braille printer called an embosser and transcription software to work with that printer, she will not be able to print the document

[JAWS-Users] Jaws & Scanned Documents

2010-05-11 Thread Annie Hesse
Hello, Although I'm visually impaired, I don't use Jaws and am therefore not familiar with its applications. Does Jaws need/use a special application to read/transcribe scanned documents into Braille? I teach English in Paris and I want to send scanned documents to my student. I don't know i

Re: [JAWS-Users] Dictionary Manager

2010-05-11 Thread Denny Huff
Nicole, You can save your dictionary manager by doing the following: Go to the start menu. Go to All Programs. Go to the version of Jaws you want to save the dictionary manager from. Go to, explore Jaws settings. Go to, explore my settings. Find the, default.jdf file, which is your Jaws diction