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An easy way to navigate through messages in Outlook

Recently, I was going through my email, when I discovered that there is a much easier way to quickly navigate between messages rather than pressing escape to exit your current message and using arrow keys to move up and down through the list. That much easier way is to simply press control+, to move back…

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An easy way to change the volume of running apps

Have you ever ben listening to music or a podcast, while you work on your computer using either JAWS or NVDA & wished you could change the volume quickly? Well now, you can, thanks to this handy tip I saw on Mastodon last night, which comes from @ivanjc@tweesecake.social He wrote, “ “I just found a…

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If Jaws won’t increase speech rate while reading, what do I do?

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…

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If Voiceover refuses to say the word “search”

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,…

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Access the context menu in the new file Explorer under Windows 11

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.