Wireless Notification Icon

Question

I am a consultant for Veterans Affairs, I service PCs and Laptops for Visually impaired vets.  Veterans that are blind use software such as JAWS that tell them about everything on their display as well as the actions they perform with keyboard and mouse.  I ran into an issue with a blind vet recently whereby he is unable to select his wireless notification icon so that JAWS can inform him as to what wireless network connections are available and he would also like to discount his Hotspot connection periodically.  Since JAWS informs him of everything that is on his desktop is there a way to have the wireless notification icon pinned to his desktop?  When a sighted person opens the wireless notification icon to display available wireless network connections then he can use up and down arrows and JAWS will call out the various network connections for him..

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

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Side note - please say thank you to those vets for me.

Good luck, hope it works out.

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Answer 2

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Moving to off topic. 

Thanks, Mike

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