- Gene, then I'll be happy to leave. There seems to be this notion that all assistance has to "be nice." Well, it doesn't, and very often, it shouldn't be. We're dealing with adults here, and elsewher

Pontes Media Downloader, a simple media downloader Ongoing discussion of same on a separate topic right now.

I don't use this software, but it is always best practice to install the latest version of any software (and particularly when that latest version is well past the early days of its release).

- They do. SATA drive enclosures are far more common these days than IDE drive enclosures are. There's really nothing to configure for them, either. You plug your formerly internal drive in to the enc

- If giving you a long overdue wake-up call when you're whining like a 3-year old is horrible, then yes. And that is exactly what you're doing. The ribbon interface has been here for over a decade and

- David, Thanks for that. I was aware of that box but had never known the keyboard shortcut to throw focus to it such that you can just type the command/action you're looking for. Certainly much faste

- No, you didn't. But I have no idea what you were trying to communicate then. The implication that he was somehow involved is something that virtually any reader would take away from your comments. H

- The "standard, easy menus" are gone and are never coming back. They also were standard, but not easy. We all had to learn them when we first started to work with them, too. I also, for the record, f

- Serious question: Fired at whose behest? These sort of petty actions are, sadly, all too common. But it's the person or persons responsible for taking them who deserve the blame. I don't know Jonath

- This will likely start a war, but, "it is going"? Where have you been? The ribbons interface started all the way back when Office 2007 was introduced and has been a part of Windows since Windows 7.

- Yup. Apple exercises an iron fist in controlling its ecosystem while Microsoft has had a "come one, come all!!" attitude toward third party developers for as long as I've been in the business. My li

- The only nit I'm going to pick here is that this implies the same cannot be had in a PC. Your assertion, which is 100% correct, that, "Windows-based products has the advantage of featuring a lot mor

- Then you will find Apple, iOS, and OSX no different. Accessibility, as a whole, is a workaround. It is the substitution of one sensory modality for material designed for another, and that substituti

This appears to be "the original source": http://www.pontes.ro/en/scripts/ Last update was in 2019.

Steve, You're being asked for a PIN since you went through the "Create a PIN" process, which changes the default verification method. And, yes, Microsoft has been forcing this, or at least making it d

Also on Freelists: https://www.freelists.org/list/program-l (list for V.I. programmers) also: https://www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind

Vicky, How are you accessing Google Voice. In order for incoming phone calls to ring you do have to have either a Google Voice tab open at all times, or the Google Voice (or Hangouts, but that's going

Madison, There's FreeLists / Programming Blind There are some other out there, too, and a number of those are specific to the programming language being used.

- Janet, it is not my obligation to spoon feed you, or anyone else. What I said was stated, and clearly, in the reference material I offered. I don't intend to keep typing information I have already o

Janet, I know of almost no screen reader users who are not accustomed to using first letter navigation in the folder tree in an e-mail client, and virtually all e-mail clients support this natively, b