Makes me wonder whether or not certain FF addons are causing problems. Might those who are having problems try going into FF w/safe mode on, ie, instead of pressing enter on the desktop shortcut press

I don't think that concluding there's an interaction w/accessibility technology in terms of FF's slowness is necessarily valid. My own tendency is to feel that there may be something like vendorware (

Gene, the truth is that: a) a screenreader, by its very nature, is going to slow down a machine to varying degrees; & b) Some things having to do w/those varying degrees are other programs running on

Yes. But many who are running the latest Firefox & using a screenreader are not reporting such problems, which suggests that this is not entirely an ff-screenreader problem. If everyone using NVDA wer

Unfortunately, these sorts of programs are a particular favorite for the malware writers. They tend to pray on folks who are looking for just such software. Uninstalling may be the tip of the proverbi

Rosemarie, how many bits the program itself is does not make a difference. What's important is whether your version of *windows* is 32- or 64-bits.

Hey Brian, you're absolutely correct. 1 time I was in my oncologist's office, & he was going over his list of systems, & he asked if I had any difficulty w/my vision, & I was sitting in front of him.

Did he move it up? It was 1700 last time.

Abbie, for my next assignment in 2 weeks w/Joseph's tech support session, I'm supposed to get log files of users who are having difficulty & see if I can decipher them & figure out the problem. So, wh

Since you're running Windows 10, Jim, the default synth is 1 core now. You'll like it better, I believe Some resources for you are: http://www.josephsl.net/tutorials/ The user guide is in the NVDA hel

In order to uninstall any antivirus software, you first have to stop the service(s) that it uses. Please go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services & set any & all services associated w/the

I frankly have seldom, if ever, seen an antimalware program that has real-time protection enabled be uninstalled using the Control Panel w/o first stopping services. Sometimes you can go down to the s

Perhaps that's because XP doesn't have some of the security capabilities of Windows 7, 8, & 10. Seems as though it would've been unsupported at the time you uninstalled it, in fact.

Hello. Your English is far better than I can speak whatever your native language is. Don't worry about it, please. As long as we can understand each other, we're good. What's your name? As to your pro

Unfortunately, as much as I like Bleeping Computer, their knowledge of & attentiveness to issues of disability is pretty slim.

It's absolutely true, Brian V. I know of a certainty that some of us have tried to engage w/the authors of security software. The results have been pretty mixed, to say the least, & that's the very po

Brian V, I love your new signature! Yeah--I know--who has a life & still reads those?--but anyway... There are developers who are beginning to take accessibility seriously. Microsoft, Apple, even Word

Ibrahim, you don't provide us w/a lot of information, ie, what version of Windows you use, what websites crash the pc, how much ram, disk space, & free disk space do you have, & other information you

Alt page up is the default keyboard shortcut to answer phone calls. However, you need to enable hot keys in Skype options in order to use it, as this isn't generally checked by default.

ctrl d also opens the dial pad.