[nfbcs] Downloading Web Braille Books In Windows 7

Mary Donahue braille at satx.rr.com
Thu Nov 24 05:13:39 UTC 2011



Thanks, Mike. I will give it a try. There are a couple of books taking 
place during the Christmas season which I want to download, but it 
probably won't be tomorrow.

Mary Donahue
On 11/23/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:
> Ah ... When you hit ENTER on the download, either hit Alt-S which will start
> the download for saving or hit Alt-J to go to the ddownloads box and tab
> over to the "save" choice which is second or third over and hit spacebar.
> There will be a lot of verbage to listen to but suffer through it and the
> last thing spoken will tell you whether you are choosing to save, open,
> resume download or cancel.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 8:11 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Downloading Web Braille Books In Windows 7
>
> Hello Mike and everyone,
>
> Version 9.0.
>
> Peter and Mary Donahue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Freeman"<k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'"<nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Downloading Web Braille Books In Windows 7
>
>
> What version of Internet Explorer are you using?
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Mary Donahue
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 7:30 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: [nfbcs] Downloading Web Braille Books In Windows 7
>
>           Good evening everyone,
>
>       I have just started using Windows 7 Home Premium within the past month,
> and am having trouble downloading Web Braille books. When I press enter to
> download a volume file, I generally choose the Save button, bbut then
> Windows 7 asks me with which program I want to open.
> Yesterday, it asked me to have BRF files fixed with Speedy PC, which I did
> not want. I just want to select a volume file, save it, and rename the file
> to have it saved in my Library Books folder. Can some of you please send
> some step-by-step instructions on how to download Web Braille books. This is
> a brand-new computer, and I don't want to break anything after trying to do
> something as simple as downloading books. I downloaded the Braille Readers
> Are Leaders reading logs without any problem. As far as screen-reading
> software goes, right now, I am using JAWS 12, but will soon be upgrading to
> JAWS 13.
>
>       Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Mary Donahue
>
>       P.S. I have had to use Pete's laptop or desktop to download books, and
> those are still in Windows XP, but I don't want to keep doing that.
>
>
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