[Blindtlk] windows ten creator

[Judy Jones]

I actually have the creators edition, but needed sighted help to finish it.

Judy


-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila
Leigland via blindtlk
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:01 PM
To: Lloyd Rasmussen; Blind Talk Mailing List
Cc: Sheila Leigland
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] windows ten creator

thanks much. I would have wondered what was up so it is good to know the 
update takes a while.


On 7/19/2017 4:24 AM, Lloyd Rasmussen via blindtlk wrote:
> Windows 10 Creator is a major update to Windows 10. It came out in 
> April. There will be another update of similar size sometime this 
> fall. It is free, and if you have been able to keep up with JAWS (now 
> at version 18 plus monthly updates of its own), you will be able to 
> use it. The Narrator screen reader continues to be improved, but it 
> works very differently from JAWS. And the latest Narrator now supports 
> braille displays.
> Doing this update may take an hour or two, and your computer may 
> reboot several times during the process. JAWs probably won't be able 
> to tell you what is happening. So you may want to start up Narrator a 
> few times. This update changes the Narrator start keystroke from 
> Windows-Enter to ctrl-Windows-Enter. Apparently too many sighted 
> people pressed Windows-Enter and got their computer talking, then 
> didn't know how to shut it up or what the speech was for. So Microsoft 
> made it a bit hardder to start Narrator. If Narrator is talking at the 
> same time as JAWS, you can stop Narrator with capsLock-Escape. All of 
> Narrator's commands use capsLock as the modifier key, including 
> capsLock-F1 for Narrator Help.
> Hope all this helps. I remember that we met you and your husband at 
> the NFB convention a couple of years ago.
> -----------
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message----- From: Sheila Leigland via blindtlk
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:45 PM
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Sheila Leigland
> Subject: [Blindtlk] windows ten creator
>
> hi, I keep getting this notice on my computer about windows ten creator.
> What is it and will it be accessible and does anyone know how much it
> costs. If it isn't useful I don't want it. I already use windows ten
> with jaws.
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