[blindlaw] Slightly OT: Accessing Settings Menu on Windows 10 Enterprise

[Steve Jacobson]

Nikki,

Another thing I forgot to mention is that you should be sure that your Default Browser is set to Internet Explorer.  In addition, the default browser that displays Cortana search results should be changing when you run the search with a screen reader on, but occasionally that hasn't worked.  There is a setting from within Microsoft Edge that can be changed, but your problem sounds different than that.  Also, are you using the latest version of JAWS 18?

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Slightly OT: Accessing Settings Menu on Windows 10 Enterprise

Thanks. So the start menu with its attending features is selectively inaccessible, making it worthless to me. If the search box is read correctly by JAWS, I shall try searching for network. However, I think that once I get there, I will still have an inaccessible window that I know is displaying all the names of wireless networks.

My firm is very ambitious with updates for cybersecurity reasons.

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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Angie Matney via BlindLaw
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Slightly OT: Accessing Settings Menu on Windows 10 Enterprise

Ah, I understand. That could be problematic. I use a laptop in my office and was contemplating that scenario. (I use VPN away from the office, but we are still on Windows 7—our IT department is very, very cautious with OS updates, so we probably will keep using 7 as long  as we can). Have you tried searching for "wireless network" in the search box? Sorry if I'm suggesting things that won't work at this point. I do understand your hesitation to let someone else drive the laptop. 

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> On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Thanks. But I think that does not work because you still need to be on a network for internet access, and the issue is getting onto a wireless network to get internet access in the first place.
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> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Angie Matney via BlindLaw
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> Nikki, not a full solution, but can you access the internet by using the run command windows-r? You could go to google that way and then go to whereever you need from there. 
> 
> Good luck with finding a solution. 
> 
> Angie 
> 
> 
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 19, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I was wondering, among those of you using a Windows 10 Enterprise Anniversary edition operating system, do you find that JAWS (version 17) works well on this? I ask because JAWS does not read certain things, such as the items in the start menu or the settings menu. Both my firm's IT and I asked Freedom, and Freedom had no answers as to why this was happening. My only other guessis that some firm security/firewall software, of which we have an ample amount, is interfering with JAWS' fully functioning.
>> 
>> It is annoying because you need to access the settings menu in order to get internet, and I do not feel all that comfortable allowing just anyone to use a firm-issued laptop. I have tried using a separate client, like AT&T, to get internet as a way to bypass the start menu/settings menus, but this is behaving strangely, too. I have not been able to get it to work quite right, even though I know the AT&T client is supposed to be JAWS-friendly. I am only further confused because I do not have any of these issues when using my Windows 10 computer at home. Thoughts?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Nikki
>> 
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