Welcome

This site contains two sets of guides: one for users of screen magnifiers, and the other for users of the Jaws screen reader. They cover various aspects of Windows XP, Vista, and 7 and a few useful applications. All the guides are free.

June update

There’s now a Jaws guide for Windows Media Player 11. Also, the Jaws guide for Audacity has been updated for version 1.3.3, and the magnifier guide for the image viewer XnView has been revised to cover version 1.9.

March update

There’s now a Jaws guide for Audacity, an open-source multi-track audio editor. You can use Audacity for recording, simple editing of single tracks, or more advanced editing involving multiple tracks.

If you have any comments or suggestions about this guide, then please leave a comment on this post.

June update

There are a number of new Jaws guides for using the world web web, including guides to the BBC History, TNAUK, and LibriVox websites. For those who haven’t come across the LibriVox website, it contains a rapidly growing number of free audio books which are available for download.

There are also three new Magnifier guides, including a guide for setting the default font and font size, line spacing etc. in Microsoft Word.

If you have any comments or suggestions about any of the software guides, please leave a comment on this post.

March update

If you have any comments or suggestions about any of the software guides, please leave a comment on this post, or any subsequent post on the home page of this website.