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The Freedom Scientific Student of the Month Program features K-12 students living in the U.S. who are blind or visually impaired and use Freedom Scientific technology to achieve educational goals. Due to the busy holiday season, rather than featuring a student this month, we are highlighting a few of our favorite stories. McKayla McKayla has …
Read More January 2023 Student of the Month HighlightsStarting with JAWS 2019, the Picture Smart feature allows you to choose a photo and submit it for analysis. A description of the image is displayed in the JAWS Results Viewer window. The following guest post was written by musician Dave Baker, and provides a step-by-step application of the Picture Smart feature in JAWS. As …
Read More Picture Smart In JAWS: Independently Selecting Your ArtworkYour calls on a variety of topics including the new Microsoft Edge, making our non-visual products more sighted friendly, the JAWS Skim Reading feature, whether to take the plunge upgrading from Officed 2010 to O365, and more. Activate this link to listen, right click to download. You can also read the transcript.
Read More FSCast 177 – Archive of FSOpenLine, November 2019.Do you use Skype to keep in touch with family and friends, connect with other professionals, or attend important meetings? Want to know more about accessing this popular application with JAWS? Check out our training, “Skype 8 and JAWS, Stay in Touch”. Keyboard commands have been incorporated into JAWS 2019, providing additional functionality with the …
Read More Stay Connected with Skype 8 and JAWSAs a company we’re always on the lookout for ways that we can help people learn more about accessibility. The University of Florida is just a three hour drive away from our headquarters, so when we heard about their IPPD program where companies and students get matched to work on a project together, this seemed …
Read More Helping college students learn about accessibilityMicrosoft Excel is a popular application for creating and reading spreadsheets. Whether you use it to catalogue items, create a budget or analyze complex information, navigating data with JAWS can prove challenging. You can navigate Excel quickly and efficiently with JAWS using keyboard commands. These are especially helpful when first assessing the contents of a …
Read More 3 Quick Tips for Navigating Excel Spreadsheets with JAWSAt the end of last Year, Microsoft announced that future versions of the Edge web browser will be based on Chromium, the same framework that’s powered Google Chrome from the beginning. This means that the new Edge will immediately benefit from all of Google’s work to ensure that Chrome embraces accessibility standards, and the work …
Read More The New Microsoft Edge Preview Has Great Accessibility SupportYou’re not losing your mind; web sites may have a completely different layout for you than for your friends and relations. I had this topic driven home for me last weekend using JAWS when trying to buy a Kindle book on Amazon.com. The Amazon site on all three of my desktop browsers kept telling me …
Read More Beware The Cookie MonsterHal Knight has one of the most familiar voices to people calling the U.S. Freedom Scientific sales department. Most people don’t know that before joining Freedom in 2000, he spent 25 years+ on WPOR as one of Maine’s most popular country music DJs. Hal is also a great storyteller as you’ll hear in his conversation …
Read More FSCast 162, Hal Knight with stories from his broadcast radio career, and Rob Santello talks ham radio accessibilityTen months down, two to go. The year is flying by but the goal we set out to accomplish at the beginning of the year was met today – namely making sure we release JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2019 at the same time. JAWS 2019 posted this past Tuesday; ZoomText 2019 and Fusion 2019 post …
Read More Our goal is reached! JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2019 coordinated release