LeaseyBites

Aug 19 2024 50 ep. 14 mins 4
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Leasey is an Access Technology tool for blind people, used in conjunction with the JAWS for Windows screen-reader. This podcast contains short audio tutorials, with each episode devoted to a specific aspect of Leasey. Whether you are new to Leasey, are training someone in the use of it, or perhaps a seasoned user looking for a refresher, we hope you will find something useful.

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A Sophisticated Windows Clipboard.

Aug 19 2024 17 mins  
As you know, Leasey contains a feature called LeaseyClips, allowing you to copy multiple text segments and paste them into a text edit area in any order of your choosing. However, Leasey version 9 also contains the ability to automatically append text to the windows clipboard for those people who would like to use it in this way. This means that you can copy or cut text segments

Speech History Just Got Easier.

Aug 14 2024 21 mins  
Leasey makes it possible for you to have access to your Speech History without leaving your currently focused application. You can move back and forth through the history items, review individual items and copy any number of them to the Windows Clipboard.

Getting Efficient With Reading Email Messages in Microsoft Outlook.

Aug 13 2024 14 mins  
Through Leasey, JAWS has the ability to automatically speak the content of the Outlook reading pane as you move through messages in a mail folder. This means that if the reading pane is enabled, as you move to a new message JAWS will speak the usual details such as the presence of attachments, author and subject, followed by the content of the reading pane. In most cases, the read

Backup and Restore Manager With LeaseyCloud Part 2. JAWS Settings.

May 09 2023 12 mins  
We continue working with a cloud source to backup and restore our JAWS settings, In other words, those not related to Leasey, such as preferred speech synthesiser, dictionary files and more.

Backup and Restore Manager With LeaseyCloud Part 1.

Apr 26 2023 21 mins  
You now know the subject of this LeaseyBite. It is about working with the cloud. If you think this does not apply to you as you only use Leasey on one machine, think again. Listen up, and you might learn something to your advantage.

New in Leasey May 2023. An Introduction to Twitter.

Apr 24 2023 21 mins  
We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at initial support for the Twitter web site and the Twitter app.

New in Leasey May 2023. Windows Notifications and Smaller Features.

Apr 18 2023 13 mins  
We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at how we can abbreviate the announcements from Windows Notifications and application alerts, together with outlining some smaller but equally important new Leasey features.

New in Leasey May 2023. Markdown.

Apr 17 2023 31 mins  
We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at support for Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to text documents.

New in Leasey May 2023. News and Weather.

Apr 16 2023 14 mins  
We continue our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking at the changes to news and weather.

New in Leasey May 2023. Radio and Podcasts.

Apr 16 2023 18 mins  
We begin our tour of the new features to come in the upcoming release of Leasey, looking first at the changes to radio and podcasts.