Also, have a Humanware staff presence on this list. Beth
Original message:
In addition:
1. Fix the massive number of minor to serious bugs that have plagued
users for years. For instance, KNG speech defaults to rate 6 when
reading in other languages, keymail often corrupts its own database,
wireless connectivity is spotty to useless in many situations, you
can't paste from the clipboard or use spellcheck in webpage edit
fields, keychat menu items have no shortcut or the shortcut fails to
activate the item, popups in keyweb still take far too long to move
through, deleting characters often makes the cursor jump... need I go
on?
2. Add promised features: multi-tasking, bluetooth object exchange,
docx support (which, need I remind you, the Victor Reader has had for
a couple years), unit conversion for keyplus, and so on.
3. Offer more than one feature in each (very expensive) upgrade, or
lower/toss out the upgrade price.
4. Be more vocal with us, the paying customers, about developments and
patches. I realize many companies don't make upcoming features public,
but it would be nice to hear that the people at hw are still at least
updating keysoft, instead of adding an open-source pdf conversion tool
and not fixing anything.
5. Fix long-standing pronunciation errors. For instance, the
abbreviations mr, ms, mrs, dr, st, and so forth should not end a
sentance, even though they are followed by a period. Other words are
still broken, like "wasted". The pronunciation dictionary needs a
major overhaul, while we're on the subject: it should support, at
least, spaces and numbers, though regular expressions would be ideal.
Failing that, the interface just feels old and awkward.
On 5/31/12, Jessica Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to add that It would be good if the bn supported
flash player. I have found that many sites are not accessible on
the bn because you need flash player to use them. Also, an sdk
would be good so that people outside of hw can make programs for
the bn. Just some ideas for people who will be going to the
conference.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew J" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:18:12 +0100
Subject: [Braillenote] more braillenote feedback suggestions
Ok, here's a quick list off the top of my head. Considering the
bn is sucha
lackluster product, I could undoubtedly think of many more given
time:
1: tables and footnotes in documents need to be made far more
accessible
2: language support: writing in multiple languages is a chore,
reading in
them in anything but the word processor is almost impossible
3: Imap support, better syncing with outlook contacts and the
ability to
import CSV contact files or some other format of contacts.
Keymail must be
made far more intuitive and less clunky, this must include the
reading of
html e-mail natively.
4: the reading of secured pdfs
5: updating the internet explorer engine to something less
prehistoric
6: the use of more IM protocols and the upgrade to the XMPP
protocol in use,
so that facebook, msn, ETC, can be made useable from keychat, as
no one uses
google talk.
7: the ability to read Excel spreadsheets.
8: a twitter client along the lines of the one the braille sense
clients
have would not go amiss.
9: better compatibility with windows 7 64 bit and windows 7 in
general for
networking, syncing ETC.
10: .docx support!
I can personally attest to every problem on this list and also I
know quite
a few people who would quite happily use an apex if it fixed some
of these
issues. I think humanware does not realize how offputting these
defects are
to a large number of young, technically-able users who are
choosing hims or
a mainstream solution. Outside of England, the use of Braille
note's in
Europe is very low because of the language support issue, for
example.
Anyway, just my 2p worth,
MJ
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