The JAWS Find facility (Insert Control F, Control F in IE) is commonly used in big documents or in web pages to locate a specific word or strings of text...
Read more about JAWS V13 find and the context specific history.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:18 PM by Moderator
We haven't been particularly blown away by the DVD menu reading abilities of the instant OCR capability of JAWS V13. However, on the subject of reading inaccessible, image-only PDF files this may be more of a chance for the feature to shine...
Read more about Reading an image PDF with JAWS V13 OCR.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:15 PM by Moderator
Those of you who might have thought that Freedom Scientific had lost the knack for creating solutions to problems that you never really knew existed, will be overjoyed to play with the new Quick Settings dialog...
Read more about Quick settings in JAWS V13.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/01/2012 3:10 PM by Webteam
RNIB are looking for IT specialists to join our 'Technology Support Squad', a national team of volunteers helping blind and partially sighted people...
Read more about Join the Technology Support Squad.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 26/10/2011 12:30 PM by Moderator
The Start Menu can still be found in the same place as in previous versions of Windows, but a tap of the Windows key reveals that the layout of the menu has changed...
Read more about Windows 7 'Start' menu.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 26/10/2011 11:38 AM by Moderator
While the DocReader and the AppReader are similar (in that they are both text-reading tools) it is how they work with the text to be spoken that highlights their differences...
Read more about ZoomText - DocReader v AppReader.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/09/2011 12:27 PM by Webteam
While the AppReader reads text similar to the DocReader it differs in that the text is not piped into a separate window. So, if you have a Word document open that you want to read, the AppReader will read it in Word...
Read more about Introducing AppReader for ZoomText.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/09/2011 11:34 AM by Moderator
The DocReader is useful when you want to listen to and read the content of a document or text area in a separate window...
Read more about Introducing DocReader for ZoomText.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/09/2011 11:31 AM by Moderator
Here are some walkthroughs with JAWS and Adobe Reader, specifically Adobe Reader Version 9 and JAWS Version 12. We'll be covering everything from basic reading of an accessible PDF document to using placemarkers...
Read more about JAWS V12 and AdobeReader (for PDFs).
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 24/08/2011 10:32 AM by Moderator
Most of us have at some point been faced with an imposing paper form - this is an unfortunate but still common scenario...
Read more about Using Kurzweil to recognise a form.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 28/07/2011 5:01 PM by Moderator