To celebrate 30 years of JAWS, we're launching a new training series highlighting notable features available in JAWS.
In our first session, we cover Quick Navigation Keys; what they are, how to use them, and how they make browsing the web more efficient with JAWS.
Listen to or watch the training here:
https://www.freedomscientific.com/webinars/use-jaws-quick-navigation-keys-to-navigate-web-pages/
On one hand:
Well, here we go y'all, the web has gotten so complex for blind people that we need an LLM to give us just the text from a page, or to tell us if a page has a buy button on it.
On the other hand:
Blind people have so few resources for learning websites and browsers that we don't know about Reader Mode, or any ways to, for example, get a Wikipedia page without all the annoying links in articles, or use the find command to search for a "buy" button.
Either way, needing an LLM for things like this is sad. I really hope it calls tools in JAWS to, say, use flexible web to get rid of article links instead of trying to return the whole page of plain text without AI hallucinations.
Laurent Bouzereau dives into Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, exploring Steven Spielberg’s fears, rare footage, and the film’s enduring cultural impact.
#Jaws #Jaws50 #JawsAt50 #film #movies #documentary #TV #Streaming
Wendy Benchley reflects on Jaws’ lasting impact, shark conservation, and the new documentary celebrating 50 years of the iconic film and its ocean legacy.
Screen reader HTML support tables
"With the addition of Gez Lemon to the editing team, work continues on expanding and improving the HTML and screen reader support information."
Chores are a nightmare when you're chronically ill
Yesterday I sped through the #NVDA Expert Certificate just to kill some time before dinner. Having used NVDA off and on again for several years I wanted to know how much still was in my head. Turns out it was enough to pass. Since I wanted to donate anyway I decided to order all their training material and since I passed the test, ordered a certificate as well. Still came in to about 10 percent of a #JAWS License. Looking forward to getting more familiar to working with MS Office with NVDA. Thanks for the amazing work you guys continue to do for #blind people around the world!
Just got both the screen readers up to date. As always, #NVDA was as snappy as anything and took about 30 seconds in total to download and install. #JAWS meanwhile took only a few seconds to download which is what I’d expect on my connection, but just under 15 minutes to install! Wtf is going on there? Is JAWS really that bloated? Is it still using an installer from the 90s? Either way, it’s insane
The infamous 1916 shark attacks that inspired "Jaws" 
Correspondent Anna Werner looked back at a fateful string of shark encounters along the New Jersey shore a century ago that stirred the public imagination, and inspired Peter Benchley's bestselling novel "Jaws".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXo-V9wQCWo
#Jaws #Jaws50 #Matawan #NJ #JerseyShore #1916
#jaws #stephenspielberg #jaws50 #4k #derweissehai
Finally the best picture and sound …
Jaws (1975)
https://tv.apple.com/es/movie/tiburon/umc.cmc.2bz6csnv519zyivpg4qb9cgbn
Aviso a navegantes, vuelve a estar en rebaja histórica a 3,99€ esta joya indiscutible de la historia del cine. Está en 4K + HDR + Dolby con audio/subs dual, y además con iTunes Extra... Compra instantánea 
https://www.blu-ray.com/itunes/Jaws-iTunes/71783/
<guiño guiño> @emilcar @oj @josesaezmerino para porsi 
There are allot of people here who understand the world in my particular way, so I thought I'd throw this out and see if anyone has done this sort of thing before and can save me from wheel reinvention. I have a #Windows machine running #Windows10 which I want to connect to the internet as follows. It has to be #portable. It has to have access only to a very specific and limited number of IP addresses and DNS names which I will identify in advance and which I will edit by hand. It has to block access to everything else including Microsoft's machines, Google's machines, Basically, if it's not on my list, the machine will not connect to it. Whether the machine wants to connect to an IP address, a DNS name, or a device on the local network, I want connections to be promptly blocked. By promptly, I mean that I want the machine not to time out trying to connect to the stuff not on my list, I want the machine to be told no as soon as it tries. I want this because the machine shouldn't be waiting to timeout, it should just be doing what I told it without wasting cycles and time trying to talk to devices I don't want it talking to. The obvious solution is some sort of #whitelisting #firewall or #security system, but I have three problems there. First, I'm #blind and need #a11y with #Jaws and #NVDA. Secondly, as I said, it has to be portable, so I can't carry around a second box with a firewall. Thirdly, the machine has both ireless and ethernet access. I want both ports to have access only to the IPs/names I specify. Whether the machine is connected over ethernet or 802.11, I want those rules to be in effect. I have considered MS' firewall, but am nervous that it will let the machine talk to MS, which I don't want it to. Is any of this even possible? Boosts would be appreciated.
A #shark #scientist reflects on #Jaws at 50
Ars spoke with #marinebiologist and shark #conservationist #DavidShiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, to discuss the #film's depiction of #sharks and its enduring place in popular culture—both good and bad.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-shark-scientist-reflects-on-jaws-at-50/
Large #teeth & highly protrusible #jaws are 2 feeding innovations that have evolved in #fish. But this study suggests that they're incompatible with each other; large teeth unlock new feeding modes, but constrain how prey can be captured @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3HVH7go
People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP
Fifty years after "Jaws" vilified sharks, real-world overfishing, climate change and misunderstanding — not cinematic horror — now threaten their survival, though conservation efforts offer hope for their recovery. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/22/world/movie-jaws-demonized-sharks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #jaws #sharks #conservation #climatechange #endangered
"Ars spoke with marine biologist and shark conservationist David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, to discuss the film's depiction of sharks and its enduring place in popular culture."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-shark-scientist-reflects-on-jaws-at-50/
Jaws is on AMC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release. It is in color. I thought the only movies that were 50 years old had to be black and white...
