Here’s a quick tip for those of you who use the Jaws screen-reader. To quickly restart jaws from anywhere, simply press Alt+Windows +F9. (This does require Leasey from Hartgen Consultancy.) As always, if you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to leave a comment & I’d be more than happy to assist you.
Recently, while working on this Lenovo Yoga laptop, I was reading something & wanted to increase the speaking rate of jaws permanently. I remember being taught that the command to do this is control+Alt+page up, which is a tricky command, since my computer doesn’t have the “6-pack.” So, what do I do? Well, I could … Read more
Recently, I was working in my web browser on my computer & needed to leave to go somewhere. But, I didn’t want to lose what I was looking at. So, I sent the tab from my computer to my iPhone. To perform the following steps, you’ll need Edge installed on all the devices you plan … Read more
If you’re a Voiceover user & your device is running ios 17.1.1 or newer, you may have run into an issue, where Voiceover loses its label for this button. When I had this issue, voiceover would just say, “button” when encountering the search tab of the following applications. Mona, Which is a third-party mastodon app, … Read more
1. Root your jaws cursor to the PC cursor by pressing insert+numb pad minus. 2. Emulate a right mouse click by pressing numb pad/once. This is the key just to the left of numb pad minus. You can now navigate the resulting menu as you normally would, using your arrow keys.
For those of us who like to browse the web from our iDevices, I was doing that recently & came across this feature. From my experimentation, I can tell you that this tip works with #Brave & #MicrosoftEdge. Below, is a very easy way to close specific tabs, assuming you don’t want to close them … Read more
The following is for those of you who use a Screen-reader with a Lenovo Yoga laptop. I was under the impression that changing the volume quickly was not possible, boy, was I wrong! After tinkering around with various keyboard shortcuts, I discovered that there is in fact a quick and easy way to do this. … Read more
When I was in high school, I took a class on ham radio. I didn’t take an exam at the time because I didn’t own the necessary equipment, didn’t know what equipment was required, & didn’t know anyone else enjoying the hobby. Fast-forward to the summer of this year, & my friend, John & I … Read more