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We report progress on some suggestions made in previous FSOpenLines and take your calls on a variety of issues including: future directions for JAWS, real-time document collaboration, Track Changes in Word, Wireshark Accessibility, and how to decide if the Home Annual License is right for you. Right click to download the episode or read the …
Read More FSCast 172, archive of the June 2019 FSOpenLineHave you ever thought about becoming a certified JAWS or ZoomText user? Want to renew your certifications so they are up to date? Now, for a limited time, you can receive your certificates along with all the benefits at an unbeatable price. Beginning on July 1st and running through the 31st, after passing your certification …
Read More JAWS and ZoomText Certifications Now Offered At an incredible DiscountEric Damery is back with news about saving money by purchasing products at the U.S. summer shows, Debee Armstrong offers up a JAWS Byte about using JAWS Speech History to review spelling, and Dave Wilkinson lets us know about the partnership between Freedom Scientific and the American Printing House for the Blind. Right Click to …
Read More FSCast 171 – Product discounts at the U.S. summer shows, a JAWS byte, and news of the Freedom Scientific APH partnershipMicrosoft Excel is a robust application with many features and options that allow you to organize and calculate data in a number of ways. As a JAWS user, it can be frustrating to wade through all of the data in front of you let alone create it yourself, but when armed with the right information, …
Read More Excel and JAWS – 3 Tips for Creating and Organizing SpreadsheetsFSOpenLine, Freedom Scientific’s global call-in show is happening in one week! Want all the info on FS software updates? Got questions about new products? Get them ready and join us via your computer or phone on Thursday, June 27th at 8:00 PM Eastern Daylight time, 0:00 UTC. In the March episode of FSOpenLine, we told …
Read More June FSOpenLine Is Right Around the CornerMicrosoft 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 JAWSMicrosoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation application that is widely used across many mediums. Maybe you’ve used it to read presentations from conferences or perhaps you’ve explored its basic functions, but have you ever considered its true impact and potential? As a JAWS user, the benefits of creating visually appealing PowerPoint presentations might not be …
Read More Making An Impact: 4 Reasons to Create Visually Appealing PowerPoint PresentationsEric Damery joins John and Larry Gasman to announce product specials that’ll be available at the ACB and NFB summer conventions, and discuss details of the April software updates. The Gasman’s demonstrate recent improvements to JAWS and Fusion heading navigation when on the web, and Mark Arnold returns to the podcast to talk about American …
Read More FSCast 170 – Product Specials for attendees of the July National Conventions for both NFB and ACB, What’s new in April Software Updates, And News About American Blind GolfAt 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 SupportMicrosoft PowerPoint is a popular application used to create presentations and is widely utilized by students and professionals everywhere. As a JAWS user or trainer tasked with teaching this application to someone who is blind, you may find it difficult to integrate inherently visual content into presentations in a way that makes sense from a …
Read More Using PowerPoint with JAWS – Creating Effective and Engaging Presentations