Hi all, RE simplicity in a browser. One quick question, What screen reader are you using, please? Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@... Author of The Demmies:

Hi Nancy. Assuming you are using windows 10? You can install as many browsers as you like but only one can be the default. To set your default browser, do the following. Press windows I to open

There isn't any reason to get rid of it and you don't know if, at some point, you may find a site that works significantly better in it than in the popular browsers. Most won't, but I've seen

If I want to try more than one new browser, is there a way to easily switch among until I make my decision?When I do add a new browser, where do I go to turn it into the default Is there any reason

yes. I don't use tabs in that way. Gene

Well Gene that's a matter of personal preference. I have several tabs that open when I launch chrome, including google, my banking site, audible, amazon and a number of others. This way I can launch

I consider it a bad use of the home page feature to have it be a search engine site in most cases. I, for example, would much rather have a news site as the home page, since I look at it a number of

Hi Nancy. I use google chrome and ms edge. In both cases I have google set to be the page I land on when the browser opens. I land on the search field for google and I have forms mode

I don't think people, even with good training are taught as well as they should be to infer form from how they move with the arrow keys. Good training will give some description of an interface, such

there may be ways to get rid of some of it but not all of it. When you open a browser, type control l and type an address and press enter, or use a bookmark or use control k, type a search string and

When you open Google as by typing the web site or making it your home page, you should be placed in the edit field as well. But there is no reason to actually go to Google or make it your home page

Gene: Thanks for chiming in.  As I said before, I didn't know the desktop was in columns.  When I listen to the items I have in there, I usually do first letter navigation or arrow through them. 

Ann: Thanks for explaining  things to me.  I am totally blind and had no idea what the desktop looked like.  I would just arrow down and listen to the items that are there.  I will definitely do

Thank you Everyone...I am starting to get a little hope. Hopefully I will give something new a whirl by the weekend. Thanks, Nancy

Gene, I think you have interpreted what I meant.  Do all the things you mentioned have to sho up?  I really only want to look for  answers or see what's out there.  If I find something I want to

Although I don't use it that way. I still do things the old-fashion way. I type URLs into the address bar, and use a search engine for searches. Sometimes if I make a mistake typing something, it will

Not to mention that all modern browsers use what they tried to get the world to call the omnibox, which is what most of us still call the address box because that's mostly what we're used to entering

 When you open a browser after it's fully loaded you can press the letter, E, to take you to the edit / forms field you're looking for, that's if you don't have forms fields set to open

I am not good at explaining...When I go to google to look something up, IE puts me right where I need to enter my inquiry. I do not see any mention of IE...just the place where I neeed to

Thanks Loy, this looks like just what I'm looking for. Are these USB powered? Near the top of the description it says something about 3.5 mm which would be the plug for the earphone jack I presume,