[gui-talk] Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's Productivity on Computers

[Jude DaShiell]

orgmode has a huge number of different capabilities.  You can do agendas 
project management all kinds of lists, and mind mapping among other 
things.  Authors use it to help them organize their research preparatory 
to writing books.  Work logging can be done too.  If it isn't yet 
organized and needs organizing orgmode is the tool.  It can even 
interface with computer code through babel facilities.  I've written 
orgmode files then used orgmode to export those to web pages as well 
earlier.  Right now, I use orgmode to maintain a couple tables and it 
has for those that can get their heads around it spreadsheet 
capabilities.  It's an emacs built-in for current versions of emacs and 
versions are available for android and the iPhone which can talk with 
emacs orgmode on a computer and pass information back and forth although 
that takes some setup to get that working.  All of this is done with 
text files any text editor can produce too.  I probably left out over 
half of its capabilities since I've not yet had occassion to use them 
and get exposed to them yet.

  A youtube search will bring up videos on org-mode for anyone 
interested.

On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Louis Maher wrote:

> Thanks Jude.
> 
> What is org-mode?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> Phone 713-444-7838
> E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> DaShiell via gui-talk
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> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's
> Productivity on Computers
> 
> Linux Tips:
> 1) learn to write bash shell scripts and use those for frequetly run
> commands,
> 2) donload install surfraw and learn to use it, lots of searching with
> minimal typing gets done that way, sr -elvi | less will make that clear,
> 3) download install and learn to use both emacs and org-mode life gets lots
> more organized that way.
> 
> On Wed, 7 May 2014, Louis Maher wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > During the summer NFB national convention in Orlando Florida, the NFB 
> > in Computer Science will hold a meeting.  In this meeting, we will 
> > have about a
> > 30 minute discussion on "Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's 
> > Productivity on Computers".  I have attached an initial list of these
> tips.
> > I would invite others to add their own tips to this list.  Better yet, 
> > others could present their tips in person during the meeting, and 
> > receive their own one-minute of fame.
> > 
> > I have separated this list into Windows, iOS, and Linux.  Please send 
> > me your suggestions.  We are looking for an appropriate web location to
> display
> > this list.   
> > 
> > I have also pasted the current list after my signature.  
> > 
> > Thanks for your consideration.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Louis Maher
> > Phone 713-444-7838
> > E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
> > ----
> > Practical Tips for Improving a Blind Person's Productivity on 
> > Computers
> > ----
> > Windows Computers
> > 
> > Place a shortcut to the favorites on your desktop.  
> > Go to C:\Users\userID\Favorites, click the right mouse button, and 
> > select send to, and select desktop.  You can then access your 
> > favorites with Windows Explorer.
> > 
> > 
> > If you have a Braille display, Control+alt+tab allows you to feel and 
> > hear the window you are on.  Good for selecting another Window in high 
> > noise environments.
> >   
> > If you are using JAWS, JAWS key + f10 shows all your sessions in 
> > alphabetic order.  To go to a session, arrow down to your choice, and hit
> enter.
> > 
> > 
> > To save attachments in an Outlook message: arrow up to the top line in 
> > the body of the text message, shift + tab to the attachment box, hit 
> > control + a to select all the attachments, hit control + c to copy all 
> > the attachments into the clipboard, in Windows Explorer, move to 
> > wherever you want the files to be stored, and hit control + v.
> > 
> > If you have a file, and you want to Copy its path into the clipboard, 
> > select the file in Windows Explorer, hit shift + applications, and hit 
> > the "copy as path" option.
> > 
> > For adobe, when controls disappear, you can still use the keystrokes 
> > like
> > control+shift+s for save as, and control+p for print.  
> > 
> > To reliably start the Surface Pro Two with Windows 8.1: push the power 
> > button for half a second, count to fifteen seconds, hit windows + 
> > enter to bring up narrator, hit tab to get to the password field, fill 
> > in the password and hit enter.  I have JAWS set to load automatically 
> > after the login process.  JAWS does not come up for me reliably in the
> login dialog.
> > Windows + enter starts and stops Narrator.  Narrator is much improved 
> > in Windows 8.  Start the surface Pro Two with narrator.
> > 
> > To put the Surface Pro Two to sleep, exit JAWS, start Narrator 
> > (windows + enter), go to the desktop (windows + m), alt + f4, and pick 
> > the sleep option.  Use Narrator for the wake-up process.
> > 
> > Map a SharePoint Website to a Disk Drive
> > 
> > To establish a link to a SharePoint site through Windows Explorer, go 
> > to the SharePoint website, hit alt+d for the address field, starting 
> > from the end of the address, delete all  of the address until you get 
> > to the website just above the SharePoint site in question, hit  enter 
> > which opens the website containing a link to your SharePoint page, tab 
> > down until you  are on your SharePoint link, click the right mouse 
> > button (which is the context menu), hit  the copy shortcut option, hit 
> > Windows + e to go to Windows Explorer, hit shift + tab to  bring you 
> > to the left side of the screen (in tree view) and land on computer 
> > (which is my  PC in Windows 8), click the right mouse button, arrow 
> > down to Map Network drive, hit enter,  paste the SharePoint shortcut 
> > name into the folder field, hit shift + tab and select a  drive, tab to
> "reconnect at startup and check it, tab to finish.
> > 
> > Now when you want to read or add documents to your SharePoint site, 
> > hit Windows + e for  Windows Explorer, hit shift + tab to go to the 
> > tree view, arrow down to the appropriate  disk drive, and your 
> > SharePoint documentation will appear in a Windows Explorer dialog.  
> > You can open, copy, and delete files just like any Windows Explorer
> dialog.
> > ----
> > iOS Machines
> > 
> > Read Anna Dresner's book, "Getting Started with the iPhone and iOS 7, 
> > An Introduction for Blind Users" from the National Braille Press 
> > (npb.org) as an introduction to the iPhone.
> > 
> > For the focus 14: chord k turns keyboard help on, chord b turns help off.
> > This 14 cell Braille display works well with the iPhone.
> > 
> > -----
> > Linux Machines
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> 
> 
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