Power users of pronunciation dictionaries, I have a pretty specific situation here. The person I'm proofing for uses actual space characters rather than tabs at the beginnings of his paragraphs, this results in having runs reported by text analyzer every time I get to a new paragraph. Having JAWS speak character count works, but this usually means seeing the space count at the beginning of each paragraph twice unless I turn off indentation indication. Yet, I need indentation indication to report justification levels such as centered or whether or not text is justified. I mark the ends of my sentences with one space. He marks them with two. is there a way I can make one dictionary entry that will allow me to set a sound to play when there are two spaces after colons or other other punctuation marks that normally end sentences? Or do I have to create an entry for every one of these? Just creating one for two spaces doesn't work because it gets triggered when two or more spaces in a row are encountered, so the three spaces my client uses for paragraph starters gets indicated... and we're back to square one. Help? #JAWS #JFW #JAWSForWindows #A11y #SpeechDictionaries #Blind #Screenreader #Technology #Proofreading #Editing

Ruh Roh Rorge I just found my first break in #JFW 2026 and i'm not pleased. When on a web page in Google Chrome with window maximized I can't copy text to clipboard but in JFW 2025 I still can. What on the earth is the meaning of this?

Well I have done it! I am now taking a personal #NVDA challenge. I have just uninstalled #JFW from my computer. I am going to see if between now and November 4th I can make it without using JFW at all. I already know of one area that I am going to have troubles, so if anyone who knows how to write things for NVDA wants to try to help, this is your chance. If someone could write an addon for NVDA that will allow someone to go to a web site, and save it as a favorite into a folder on there computer like #Leasie for JFW can do that would be greatly appreciated.

There are going to be lots of people that will be very surprised by me saying the following, but I am giving serious thought to if I want to pay for #JFW next month. I know there are a couple things I use that I can't get to work with #NVDA that work with JFW, but other than that, I really just don't know. I have been using NVDA almost constently over the past I think two months, and over all I like it. For me, it is mainly how fast it responds when you are doing things. Oh sure JFW isn't really slow, but it is slow enough that I notice it. I have until November 4th to decide what I am going to do, but at this time that is what I am really thinking about. Oh sure JFW is only just over 100 for a year, but right now, I think the only thing I have loaded it for in the past few weeks is if something crashes, and I need to kill the process. I don't use task manager, and don't like it. I use a program called process explorer, however a few times I have actually not thought about it, and loaded Blind Nerd Toolbox, and used that to kill it. The only other thing that I can think of right now that I would really miss is the ability to save favorites the way Leasie does for JFW. I still haven't found anything yet for NVDA that will do the same thing. Sadly this is not something I could use a 40 minute mode to do, as you have to have Leasie for JFW to even do this, so that option is out, but should I seriously pay just over 100 a year to then also pay I think around another 25 or 30 a year for just to ocationally save favorites? Now that I have said all of that, you guys can pick your jaw up off the floor, or pick yourself up off the floor that you fell out of your chair onto, and go about your day.

@ChrisDuffley Ah well I didn't need anything from him I just wanted to praise his #JFW Scripts for Speak Dropbox and SpeakOneDrive.

hey #JFW? there is a new version out. It is the September update. You are saying I am running the latest version thoughk, and I know this one hasn't been updated for maybe two months? what is the deal?

Question for my #Blind friends, does anyone know if iMazing on the #Windows side is #Accessible with #JFW or #NVDA? I figured I'd ask before I purchase the thing sight unseen as it were. Thanks in advance.

And now Here is the same StemRoller program, but with #JFW loaded this time. As you will hear, it reads *everything* in the program just fine, where #NVDA wouldn't read anything at all. this is why I love having access to more than one screen reader. where one doesn't work, another one might.

#NVDA? this is not cool of you at all! I don't know why, but it seemd like you are hogging the computer a whole lot, and it is getting worse lately. before, it was only every once in a while, but this morning, and the past couple days, it is happening a lot more often. I like you because you do respond to things faster than #JFW, but if this keeps up, I will go back to using JFW instead of using NVDA most of the time.

now that is very interesting! I have watched a couple videos now where #NVDA has automatically read what I am assuming are something like chapters on youtube videos, where I have never heard #JFW do this. Is this a setting in JFW I need to fix, or does JFW not do this? here is a perfect example. @mcourcel posted a link to a video that has different phone ring sounds, and when each one happened, meaning when it changed to a different one, NVDA read where you can hear that one. here is the link to the youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFBbQkg1J4

@mcourcel I am trying AdGuard out, as I get a 14 day trial, but I am already not liking it. having all kinds of issues accessing it's interface with #NVDA. maybe I need to switch back to #JFW? do you use this, and if so, how are you accessing its interface?

I wonder why the following is? I think it might just be windows 11, but I could be wrong. so when you look at the system tray with #JFW *everything* is get toable by first letter navigation, but the system tray in #NVDA some things you can't get to, because some of them seem to have a space before the first word. NVDA and JFW are seeing something different when you look at the icons in the system tray, and maybe JFW is compinsating for the space that shows up on some of them? maybe?

now this is very interesting! with the station playlist addon for #NVDA, when I up and down arrow threw the list, I can see who made a request when one was made, but with the #JFW studio scrips, I don't see this at all when doing the same thing. I wonder if there is something I need to change in the studio scripts for JFW to see this? something for me to look into.

I really wish #JFW would read the echo lines in a batch file. I didn't put them there for my health you know. Trying to write a batch file that took a few of my batch files, and put them into one, with some echo lines in it, but for what ever reason JFW just doesn't want to read the echo lines for some reason. Maybe NVDA will? I might have to try that the next time I run this particular batch file.

ok #Microsoft, this is a new low for you. I went to open the camera app on my windows 11, and #JFW sees the following.

Let Camera access your microphone? Unavailable

I can't access this at all with #JFW, #NVDA, or #Narator! yes, not even Narator, Microsofts own screen reader will let me access this! this is completely sad that I am going to have to use #Aira and let them control my computer just to give the camera app the permissions it wants, and needs!

Trying this again, since I got no answers last time, and only one confirmation that I'm not alone in seeing this behaviour:
For whatever reason, the JAWS "Check For Updates" menu option under the Help menu is always unavailable when running Windows and JFW in a virtual machine on a Qemu-KVM hypervisor.
What I'd love to know is if anyone knows if this is a bug or feature? If bug, is FS even aware of it? Any planned fixes? I tried to contact FS on this and got about as much as I expected, nothing.
If a feature, does anyone understand the rationale of making JFW automatic Updates unavailable on virtual machines?
#Accessibility #A11Y #automaticUpdates #JAWS #JFW #ScreenReader #Windows

ok, time for my stupid question of the day. I know how to do this with jaws, as I do it all the time, but how do I do the following in NVDA? so I am listening to my personal station in winamp. I want to toot what the winamp titlebar is showing me. in #JFW, I use insert+alt+w to put the window in a virtual window, so I can copy the test, but I don't know how to do this with #NVDA.

for anyone that uses the latest version of #JFW, I am trying to do the following, but it isn't working at all.

getting rid of the call manager in jaws

1. press jawskey+8 to open the keyboard manager.
2. press ctrl+shift+d for default.
3. tab once to go into the list of commands.
4. press ctrl+f for find and then do the command alt+win+c then press enter
5. you should land on manage call control. if you did, press the delete key.
6. close the keyboard manager.

when I press the delete key, nothing happens. when I press the application key and try to go to delete, it says it is unavailable. what am I missing, or what in these directions is wrong?

Hey #Blind friends using #ScreenReaders like #JFW how on the earth do you now edit your #Amazon.com shopping cart I.E. if you wish to remove an item? I'm in Chrome today and can't figure out how to do it.

@mcourcel Now that is truly fascinating. #JFW running #Eloquence elongated the r for a spell and then inexplicably switched to saying r ' r ' r ' I wonder why.