Hi Brian and list, You bring up an issue concerning schools for the blind VS public school mainstreaming that is still a hot topic among the blind community and to a degree depending

I bet it sure was embarrassing! I'm glad they yelled at her. It's so terrible, some of the stuff families do. Pam.

Pam: In WLM, just hit the F7 key to bring up the spell checker. It will announce the word that is mis-spelled and give you the first option to replace it. If that is right, hit Control C. If you

When I was a kid, both my parents learned Braille as adults.

Hi Dave, You know I have used Thunderbird for several years now and I never tried the F7 key to check spelling manually.  In earlier versions of Thunderbird, the tools menu referenced the keystroke

Yes; I know a person who didn’t start learning braille until she was anadult. She was put in what is called the “project class” in Lavelle schoolfor the Blind. I asked her why they said she

How do you turn on and use the spellchecker in windows live mail? Ihad it on for a while, but I could see when it told me a word was wrong, but Icouldn’t figure out how to find and go through the

Mitch: I went to a regular mainstream school, as my vision was able to be corrected with glasses until my 30s. Just to let you know, we were never taught anything about finances at public school

Hi I hve not been following this thred all the way though how ever from beaing in a blind school my self from grade 7 untill grade 12 from 1997 untill 2003 I can say that some of the thingsthat we

Meeting Topic: a Demo of the Leasey Software to Be Used With JAWS or Fusion Group: the Philadelphia Computer Users Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Hi all, With all the discussion today, I thought I would share the story of a friend of mine. I won't share his name because that would not be wise. However, I tell this story to emphasize the fact

hey jene same problem occured

Hello, I have forgotten to mention that I am using a BrailleNote Apex to read. Is there a way on the Apex to convert an html file into a text file? Sorry about that. I had a senior moment. They

Hello, I have forgotten to mention that I am using a BrailleNote Apex to read. Is there a way on the Apex to convert an html file into a text file? Sorry about that. I had a senior moment. They

Hi Jan, Probably the quickest way would be to copy the whole HTML file and paste it into Notepad. Pasting it into Notepad will remove all formatting. Save the original HTML file in case you need

Hello, What is the procedure for converting a html file into a text file? Please let me know if you know how to do it. Thank you very very much. Jan

Thank you, Ann. To take off from that, God knows your name. Jan

Try using this link. There is an exe file you will run but it should work. If it doesn't, we'll have to try to figure out

I'm not sure. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to send you a link to download a version on my Dropbox account. I'll have to see if I have the exe files for any recent portable versions that I can

If you have never tended a blind school then you will not know that whatwas like for those of us that spent our lives there. I was there from 1969-1985 but I hear that things are