[nfbcs] Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's Productivity on Computers

Sat May 17 02:18:52 UTC 2014

I would be interested in seeing those. I will have to look them up.

Nancy Coffman
Sent from my iPhone

> On May 16, 2014, at 9:16 PM, Mike Freeman via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Talking Goggles can also be of assistance.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Coffman via
> nfbcs
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 7:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's
> Productivity on Computers
> 
> I have found that Text Detective will often read an err message or a menu in
> such a way that it can be followed and worked. Although this requires
> another device, sometimes it is easier than finding a reader or using
> narrator.
> 
> Nancy Coffman
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 7, 2014, at 5:32 AM, "Louis Maher" <ljmaher at swbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> During the summer NFB national convention in Orlando Florida, the NFB in
>> Computer Science will hold a meeting.  In this meeting, we will have about
> a
>> 30 minute discussion on "Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's
>> Productivity on Computers".  I have attached an initial list of these
> tips.
>> I would invite others to add their own tips to this list.  Better yet,
>> others could present their tips in person during the meeting, and receive
>> their own one-minute of fame.  
>> 
>> I have separated this list into Windows, iOS, and Linux.  Please send me
>> your suggestions.  We are looking for an appropriate web location to
> display
>> this list.   
>> 
>> I have also pasted the current list after my signature.  
>> 
>> Thanks for your consideration.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> Louis Maher
>> Phone 713-444-7838
>> E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
>> ---- 
>> Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's Productivity on Computers 
>> ---- 
>> Windows Computers
>> 
>> Place a shortcut to the favorites on your desktop.  
>> Go to C:\Users\userID\Favorites, click the right mouse button, and select
>> send to, and select desktop.  You can then access your favorites with
>> Windows Explorer.
>> 
>> 
>> If you have a Braille display, Control+alt+tab allows you to feel and hear
>> the window you are on.  Good for selecting another Window in high noise
>> environments.
>> 
>> If you are using JAWS, JAWS key + f10 shows all your sessions in
> alphabetic
>> order.  To go to a session, arrow down to your choice, and hit enter.
>> 
>> 
>> To save attachments in an Outlook message: arrow up to the top line in the
>> body of the text message, shift + tab to the attachment box, hit control +
> a
>> to select all the attachments, hit control + c to copy all the attachments
>> into the clipboard, in Windows Explorer, move to wherever you want the
> files
>> to be stored, and hit control + v.
>> 
>> If you have a file, and you want to Copy its path into the clipboard,
> select
>> the file in Windows Explorer, hit shift + applications, and hit the "copy
> as
>> path" option.
>> 
>> For adobe, when controls disappear, you can still use the keystrokes like
>> control+shift+s for save as, and control+p for print.  
>> 
>> To reliably start the Surface Pro Two with Windows 8.1: push the power
>> button for half a second, count to fifteen seconds, hit windows + enter to
>> bring up narrator, hit tab to get to the password field, fill in the
>> password and hit enter.  I have JAWS set to load automatically after the
>> login process.  JAWS does not come up for me reliably in the login dialog.
>> Windows + enter starts and stops Narrator.  Narrator is much improved in
>> Windows 8.  Start the surface Pro Two with narrator.
>> 
>> To put the Surface Pro Two to sleep, exit JAWS, start Narrator (windows +
>> enter), go to the desktop (windows + m), alt + f4, and pick the sleep
>> option.  Use Narrator for the wake-up process.  
>> 
>> Map a SharePoint Website to a Disk Drive 
>> 
>> To establish a link to a SharePoint site through Windows Explorer, go to
> the
>> SharePoint website, hit alt+d for the address field, starting from the end
>> of the address, delete all  of the address until you get to the website
> just
>> above the SharePoint site in question, hit  enter which opens the website
>> containing a link to your SharePoint page, tab down until you  are on your
>> SharePoint link, click the right mouse button (which is the context menu),
>> hit  the copy shortcut option, hit Windows + e to go to Windows Explorer,
>> hit shift + tab to  bring you to the left side of the screen (in tree
> view)
>> and land on computer (which is my  PC in Windows 8), click the right mouse
>> button, arrow down to Map Network drive, hit enter,  paste the SharePoint
>> shortcut name into the folder field, hit shift + tab and select a  drive,
>> tab to "reconnect at startup and check it, tab to finish.  
>> 
>> Now when you want to read or add documents to your SharePoint site, hit
>> Windows + e for  Windows Explorer, hit shift + tab to go to the tree view,
>> arrow down to the appropriate  disk drive, and your SharePoint
> documentation
>> will appear in a Windows Explorer dialog.  You can open, copy, and delete
>> files just like any Windows Explorer dialog.
>> ---- 
>> iOS Machines
>> 
>> Read Anna Dresner's book, "Getting Started with the iPhone and iOS 7, An
>> Introduction for Blind Users" from the National Braille Press (npb.org) as
>> an introduction to the iPhone.
>> 
>> For the focus 14: chord k turns keyboard help on, chord b turns help off.
>> This 14 cell Braille display works well with the iPhone.
>> 
>> ----- 
>> Linux Machines
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's Productivity on
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