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JAWS Power Tip: How To Quickly Access Your Windows Desktop with JAWS

When you have many applications open, it can be difficult to quickly access your desktop to open a file, shortcut, ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Instantly Announce Your Line and Column Position in Word with JAWS

JAWS can announce your precise line and column position in any Word document with a single keystroke. This is helpful ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Spell the Current Word with JAWS

If you’re unsure about the spelling of a word while reading or editing, JAWS can quickly spell it out for ...
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An image showing the ZoomText logo on a computer monitor, with the text 'ZoomText' in black and green. A software box labeled 'ZoomText Magnifier with Speech' sits beside the monitor in matching green and white colors. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with bold black and white text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and geometric shapes on a white background.

ZoomText / Fusion Power Tip: How To Lock Your Mouse Pointer Size in ZoomText

When using ZoomText, the mouse pointer shrinks and enlarges as you increase or decrease magnification. This can make it difficult ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Disable the New Adobe Acrobat Reader Experience

The "new" Adobe Acrobat Reader experience is a redesigned interface that is enabled by default when you first start Adobe ...
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Top Tech Tidbits. The Week's News in Access Technology. Eight photos. 1: A young girl with down syndrome smiles enthusiastically while cutting paper at school. 2: A man with a prosthetic right leg goes for a run. 3: A man in a wheelchair smiles on a sunny day as he is lifted into a bus. 4: A blind man wearing sun glasses in a park holds a white cane in his right hand and a phone in his left. 5: A woman with black and blonde hair wears a hearing aid at work. 6: Fingers read braille through a refreshable braille display. 7: A man makes the sign for 'family' in American Sign Language (ASL). 8: A woman uses magnification software on a tablet to read a magazine.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Quickly Locate Text with the JAWS Find Command

The JAWS Find command is a powerful tool that helps you quickly locate specific words or phrases on a page, ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Adjust The Voice Rate Using Keyboard Commands

You can adjust the JAWS voice rate using keyboard commands so you can quickly make JAWS speak faster or slower ...
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An image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Access Multiple Sheets in An Excel Workbook

A workbook in Microsoft Excel is a file that can contain multiple sheets, each used to organize related sets of ...
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