Using your JAWS USB pen

Here's how it works:

1. On any MWS computer, insert the USB pen before you log on.
    
   
2. Wait 60 seconds to allow Windows to notice the USB pen.
    
   
3. Log on.

JAWS will run automatically.

Important Warning:

JAWS requires a component called Video Intercept to be installed before it can run. If this component isn't already installed at the time when JAWS tries to run from your USB pen, it will automatically install the Video Intercept component for you. Video Intercept requires a reboot before it will work. This reboot will happen automatically. Therefore, there may be occasions when you insert your USB pen, log on, and then nothing seems to happen for about two minutes and then the computer reboots. This is expected. Just log on again after the reboot completes and JAWS should launch normally.

For your convenience, Video Intercept is already installed on odd-numbered CSD Teaching Centre computers. (It is only on odd-numbered ones because even-numbered ones have the video interceptor for Supernova, another screen reading technology, and their two video interceptors do not get along. We realize it's inconvenient, and that you may not be able to identify which stations are odd- or even-numbered by yourself, but it is the best compromise we have been able to come up with.)

Notes:

• JAWS will only run automatically if the USB pen is inserted (and noticed by Windows) before you log on.
   
  
• If you remove and reinsert the pen, it will not automatically run again. For this reason, a shortcut called "JAWS from USB" has been created on your desktop which you can use to re-launch JAWS if necessary. If you are an undergraduate or a taught postgraduate, this desktop shortcut will travel with you wherever you go, because you have a roaming profile. This shortcut has a hotkey: press CTRL+ALT+J to run it. (The hotkey will not work until your next logon.)
   
  
• You will probably be unable to run JAWS from the USB pen on non-MWS computers, for several reasons:
   
  First, there will be no mechanism to launch it automatically.
   
  Second, Video Intercept is unlikely to be installed.
   
  Third, you are unlikely to be an administrator of the computer, which means you would not be able to install Video Intercept yourself.