I know of at least one other blind Lighthead who posts here and was very pleased to put him in touch via email with Maheen
that persone did once tell me what the acronym Jaws stood for but it took some determined googling to find it:-
In doing so came acros this statement
"If I'm currently using a dongle for my JAWS authorization"
which reminded me of somebody (Cathy's??) lovely misheard song title:-
"Long thin Dong"
there was no acronymical explanation at a main Jaws site:-
http://www.rommes.org/computer/jaws.html
but eventually I found
"JAWS is an acronym for ...
Jamming And Warning System"
Actually I know JAWS is clever enough to say when it encounters a hyperlink for example and even say the name of a smilie!
But every time I think of a blind person using a computer and the internet my mind simply boggles. It is as Char will no
doubt agree hard enough to get started when you can scan a page to what is going on and what the page contains but having to
wait for evertything to be read out to you must take more patience than I think I have available.More to the point I finally got to see last night at our local cinema the most excellent film Ray about another of my
favou)rite artists Ray Charles (who I once saw 7 of 8 concerts he did on successive days at London's Hammersmith Odeon while earning much needed pocket money as a student selling Ice creams and program(me)s and was most impressed by Ray's mother whose advice and attitude was that he would after going blind at 7 have to do things for himself and he did so.
A fine inspiration for folk like Maheen to follow.
Yesterday for example I asked Maheen how could he tell one CD from another and he said his father was attaching Braille labels
(Lightfoot1 etc).Just like Ray Charles' wife who apparently stitched on a series of raised numbers on socks etc to indicate
to him correct colo(U)r matches. Something that highly impressed my dear wife Susan who then threatened to similarly code up my clothing !! So,when Maheen makes typos or spelling mistakes bear with him just as you do with my one finger speed typing that amuses the chat room participants no end right Brink?
John Fowles