October 3rd, 2006 meeting

The new director of the Adaptive Services Division attended the meeting, introduced herself to the group and talked about her hopes for the group and for the division. The petition was discussed and three concerns were expressed. The first was that the petition be shorter and simpler, possibly with a list of required assistive technologies as an addendum. The second was that the proposed name change for the group, from JUGS (JAWS Users Group and Support) to TUGS (Technology Users Group and Support) might lose focus on the community of people who are blind, have low vision, or physical disabilities that prevent them from reading printed text. The third concern was that a profile be drawn up of the libraries customers.

A representative of Freedom Scientific was at the meeting to do a JAWS demonstration. His tips included the following:

Insert T to read the title of the active window
Alt Tab to cycle between active applications
Insert F2 to open the JAWS Manager and 3 S's to open the Skimming Tool
Ctrl Shift K to set a permanent place marker