A number of my readers have asked whether the programmes I talked about in a previous blog are keyboard accessible. Well ZoneAlarm certainly is. The messages it brings up are in HTML type format, so you can use your normal Internet strategies for reading and responding to them, like tabbing and looking for short cut [...]
Came across this news recently. It seems that Google are looking into the possibility of checking websites for their accessibiiyt for people who use screen readers – software that enables blind and partialyy sighted computer users to access inter pages.
These software packages, such as Jaws, Hal, Window-Eyes, have spicific things that make web pages accessible. [...]
In the vast majority of dialog boxes there is a button that looks slightly different to any other buttons, maybe with more of a 3D look or maybe a slightly different colour.
This is what can be described as the default button. This means that this is the button that gets pressed when you press [...]
Microsoft Word. Did you know that CTRL+D opens the font dialog? It’s an awful lot quicker than finding the mouse, moving it to the "format" menu, clicking on it, and clicking on "font".
Astute readers will notice that this is the same as a recent keystroke, but for a different application. How green can you get [...]
To quickly add a web page to you favourites list, press CTRL+D.
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I was with a client this week whose computer – a new-ish one running Windows XP – was running really, really slowly. I ran a full scan of her virus guard which did pick up one virus but this made only marginal difference to the speed of the machine. Then I ran a programme that [...]
Did you know that you can take a snapshot of how your screen looks?
Hi and welcome to the Windows Without a Mouse Weblog.
This is the first of my posts to this blog with some thoughts which you might find useful if you would like to find out more about using your Microsoft Windows computer without using the mouse.
Why would your want to? Well that might be for several [...]