VIP Software Guides

Audacity 2.0

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:19:45 +0000

Audacity is a free multi-track audio editor. Version 2.0 of this program has recently been released, and the Jaws guide to Audacity has been updated to cover this version. In addition, the sections of the guide on moving the cursor and selecting audio have been revised and expanded.

Windows Live Mail 2011

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:46:49 +0000

There’s now a Jaws guide to Windows Live Mail 2011. This includes a detailed description of how to use the ribbons in this program, using either the standard windows keystrokes or the Jaws virtual ribbon.

Taskbar on Windows 7

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:05:58 +0000

There’s a new Jaws guide to the taskbar on Windows 7, and it covers the Start menu, the taskbar buttons, and the Notification area.

Windows Explorer on Windows 7

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:11:01 +0000

There’s a new Jaws guide to Windows Explorer on Windows 7. It includes libraries which are new in Windows 7, and advanced search techniques.

Google guide updated

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:13:42 +0000

The Jaws guide to searching using Google has been updated to cover recent design changes. These include the restructuring of the search options, and the inclusion of landmarks in the result pages to aid navigation.

September update

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:00:43 +0000

There’s now a Jaws guide to the BBC iPlayer website, where you can listen to BBC radio programmes broadcast in the last week, and also to those currently being broadcast. If you live in the UK, there is also a similar service for BBC TV programmes, and some of these are audio described. The Jaws guide to Audacity has been updated for version 1.3.9.

August update

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:48:48 +0000

Two Jaws guides for Vista have been added: one for the Start menu, and the other for the Open and Save dialogs.

May update

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:57:19 +0000

There’s now a Jaws guide to Internet Explorer 8, and the Jaws guide to Audacity has been revised for version 1.3.7.

February update

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:13:05 +0000

There’s now a Jaws guide to Windows Explorer on Vista, which includes a detailed description of advanced search techniques.

December update

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:38:59 +0000

There’s now a Jaws guide for the very accessible program BBC iPlayer Listen Again, which enables you to listen to most of the BBC’s radio programmes which have been broadcast during the previous week. This program is a replacement for the popular program Accessible BBC Listen Again. The material describing various controls, which used to be in the Jaws guide to dialog boxes, has be rewritten, and is now contained in a separate Controls guide. Finally, the Jaws guide for Google has been updated to take into account the recent impovements in the accessibility of this website.