[Blindtlk] Question About Using Jaws on a Shared/Work Computer...

[Szostak, Christine]

My best suggestion would be to just set up the computer so that JAWS only comes up for you after logging in. Remember that you can set JAWS to turn on before or after you  log in. When I was in grad school, although I had my own dedicated computer in our lab, there were many other lab  computers in our research lab that I had to share with my lab mates. In those cases we did what I suggested above  which allowed me to have easy and full access to those computers while no one else was bothered. If those sharing the computer do not log out you can always just turn JAWS off when finished. We used this method on a few of the computers in that lab that were almost never allowed to be logged out of, and believe me, since my lab mates thought the voice was terrible, they never wanted to turn JAWS on and ness with it, with a single exception of one lab mate who turned it on to prove that  it was not very good at working with the internet (thankfully she did not change any settings). Although she proved to herself  that it was not good at the internet, what she did not know was that for the things she was trying to prove (e.g., that JAWS can identify colored texts...) there were keystrokes that would have given her all of the information she  was testing:)! She was simply arrowing around  which long-time JAWS users know will not get you very far very fast or give you all that much information, especially on the internet:).
Happy Tuesday all!
Chris

Dr. Christine M. Szostak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu
cszostak at shorter.edu

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Subject: [Blindtlk] Question About Using Jaws on a Shared/Work Computer...

Hi Everyone:
I might have a job opportunity that requires using a computer at an office.
For those of you who have Jaws installed on a work PC or if you have done an internship or something where you had to use Jaws on a shared computer what is the best and most convenient way to do it?
When I worked at the radio station, I installed Jaws via the DVD but now I've been told there is a USB dongle where you just insert it into any USB port and it comes on?
Do a lot of you use one of these? Is it worth my purchasing?
I've tried googling about it and can't find much info.
How does it work? Do you just insert the USB into any USB port and it comes on?
What about when there is a new version of Jaws? Do you have to purchase a new dongle or do they send you one automatically?
Have you found the dongle to be more easy/convenient for using a shared computer than installing via the DVD?
I'm just trying to ask now in advance so if I need to purchase a dongle I can do so right away.
Thanks,
Kerri

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