For me "trust" does mean "taking someone at their word", and if I feel I can't take them at their word, then I don't trust them. I don't really see any other definition of "trust". Antony.

The only files you can corrupt by unplugging a USB device without safely unmounting it first are files on that USB device. Any files on the main computer which are in use at the time (even if they're

Sarah: Thank you for the further description and information about the situation you were in. It's always a pity when organisations choose the technology solution (or vendor) first, and then look at t

What doesn't count as "commercial support" from https://www.nvaccess.org/product/nvda-telephone-support ? It's a support service, which you pay for. I agree that the website doesn't specify when the s

So, how come Microsoft Windows has needed so many security updates over the past 30 years? That's not open source :) Antony.

What you say may be true, but I got the impression from Sarah's email that she was not an employee in these companies, but was talking to employers in the capacity of a trainer for assistive technolog

In my experience the bundling of unwanted extras with the software you thought you were installing is far more prevalent with closed source proprietary software than it is with open source software. H

It could be security, agreed, but I'm interested in what companies say in actual conversation, more than in speculation about what we think they might say. Antony.

That sounds plausible - a simple check would be: does a message also disappear if you read it but don't reply to it? Antony.

You say you talk to employers who "don't like open source". What is their reasoning behind this? Do they think they get no support, do they believe the software is inferior, or what? I'm interested to

This is not true on a UK keyboard. Antony.

I am not suggesting that your keyboard itself has changed - I suggested that what your computer thinks the layout of the keyboard is has changed. My girlfriend regularly uses a computer whigh has a UK

It sounds like your computer has switched from thinking it has a UK keyboard layout (which has a pound sign on shift-3) to a US layout (which has a hash symbol on shift-3, and is often read as "number

You say that you use a hotspot with your computers sometimes, but that you wouldn't use it for talking, because that uses a lot of data (and that is presumably expensive). It may be cheaper than you t

I think http://www.josephsl.net/tutorials is probably what you're looking for. Antony.

Different people have different speeds - both of listening, and reading Braille (just as different sighted people can read at different speeds). I would suggest the choice of synthesiser (which is an

Sounds like you didn't have Service Pack 1 installed before trying to install NVDA. Antony.

If you could give a little more detail about how you find the menus confusing, or what you think might work better, this could be useful feedback for either the developers and/or the authors of tutori

Last time I moved banks (about 2 years ago) all my standing orders and direct debits were transferred automatically for me as part of the process. Antony. wrote:

I think it is an overstatement to say that "the USA is the only country that does not have accessible money". I agree that not everyone has a smart phone, but how is it possible to live these days (as