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FSOpenLine, Freedom Scientific’s global call-in show, will take place this Thursday, November 21 at 8:00 P.M. Eastern. Is there an app you need to use for work or school that you’re finding inaccessible? Something with our products that isn’t working as well as you need it to? Have ideas you’d like us to consider? These …
Read More Join Us for the Next FSOpenLineLast month, we told you about a collaboration between Freedom Scientific and Amazon to improve JAWS access to the Kindle App for PC. Now we’ll share some outcomes of a long-standing collaboration between FS and Microsoft that are positively impacting how people access information and perform critical tasks in multiple applications. Microsoft products are regularly …
Read More Freedom Scientific and Microsoft Continue Collaborating to Improve Access to Widely Used Products and Important FeaturesGoogle Sheets is a popular web-based spreadsheet application used at home, in school, and at work. Whether you use spreadsheets to create personal budgets, keep track of course assignments, or collaborate with fellow employees on important projects, accessing them via an online tool offers several distinct advantages. Here are three to consider. Data Saves Automatically …
Read More Three Reasons to Learn Google Sheets and JAWSLast month, we told you about a recent change to Twitter.com that caused shortcut keys to no longer work, and the subsequent collaboration between Freedom Scientific and Twitter that resolved the issue. Now we’d like to share another collaboration between Freedom Scientific and a mainstream company that has resulted in greater access to digital books. …
Read More Freedom Scientific Collaborates with Amazon to Improve JAWS Access to the Kindle App for PCIn our last live webinar, “Google Docs and JAWS,” we showed you how to enable the screen and braille accessibility features, provided an overview of orientation and navigation, and introduced you to some basic formatting commands. This week, we’ll delve deeper into this popular application in FS Skill Building and Review, “Write, Edit, and Collaborate …
Read More Write, Edit, and Collaborate Using Google Docs and JAWSGoogle Docs is a web-based word processor included for free as part of the office suite offered through the Google Drive service. Docs is available as both a web application and mobile app and provides a means of creating and editing documents from anywhere. Here are three benefits of using this powerful and convenient application. …
Read More Three Benefits of Using Google Docs and JAWSJoin Us for FSOpenLine to Have Your Voice Heard FSOpenLine, Freedom Scientific’s global call-in show will take place tomorrow, September 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern. Want to know more about FS software releases? Have questions about our products you’ve always wanted to ask? Join us by phone or computer and get them answered. During the …
Read More Join Us for FSOpenLine to Have Your Voice HeardDuring July 2019, we received several Tech Support calls and feedback from our Beta team alerting us that something had recently changed while using www.Twitter.com with JAWS. Twitter, like Facebook, offers their own shortcut keys to help interact with their pages. For example, on Twitter, you can press the letter J to jump to the …
Read More Access to Twitter Shortcut Keys Returns Thanks to Collaboration Between Freedom Scientific and Mainstream Software CompaniesWhen young people who are blind or low vision are equipped with the skills to use mainstream computing technology, they’re gaining skills that prepare them for future study and employment. With JAWS, ZoomText or Fusion, they can most efficiently use popular apps that embrace accessibility such as Microsoft Office, or much trickier proprietary apps unique …
Read More Thanks to our partnership with CFTB, 27 blind Missouri students learn the power of JAWS, ZoomText and FusionIn June, we blogged about our partnership with Computers for the Blind, an initiative that sees JAWS and ZoomText pre-installed on all machines they distribute. Each application can be run on its own, or at the same time through Fusion. We recently heard from David Jeppson, CFTB’s Executive Director, who told us of a new …
Read More More news from Computers for the Blind on obtaining an affordable computer complete with JAWS, ZoomText and Fusion