LOL, perfectly said! Dead right. Windows 8.1 is my windows, and nothing else but going forward will do for me now. The accessibility in windows 8 / 8.1 blows the pants off 7, let alone! XP! Hahah. And anybody that says narrator in windows 8 isn't getting good, obviously hasn't actually bothered to sit down and use it for a while, too see just what Microsoft have done. They have made it close to a screen reader in and of itself! And in the case of windows RT, it is. OK, it's not up to the VoiceOver standards in OS X, but it's trying, and I think it will get there in the end. Considering where narrator was in windows XP, then in windows 7, ... windows 8's narrator is a massive improvement. And it actually works. I've actually sat down, and used Internet explorer, and a few other apps, with narrator. It is, in fact, quite usable. OK, I'm not about to replace NVDA with narrator, LOL. but it's a good effort, and a good start towards what it needs to be.
and Windows XP feels so old to me now. I mean, come on, ... no start menu search? LOL. How, late 1990's, / early 2000's. Hahah. So last decade! Dallas On 30/12/2013, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dallas: > > Yes, you are absolutely right. I forgot to mention those commands in > my prior e-mail, but all the same things in Windows 8 are very easy > once you are made aware of commands like Windows+t to jump to the > Taskbar or the Windows+1 through Windows+0 commands to launch apps > from the Taskbar. Now that I have learned how easy Windows 8 is I > wouldn't trade it for XP any day of the week. It is the people who > don't know about all the extra accessibility under the hood that are > still dragging their heals and complaining about how much worse > Windows 8 is when they simply don't know what in blazes they are > talking about. > > Cheers! > > > On 12/29/13, Dallas O'Brien <dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hi. one note, maybe you haven't used this command, perhaps you don't >> even know it is there. lol. but in stead of going to your desktop then >> tabbing over to your task bar, simply press windows T. this will jump >> you to the first item on your task bar, from where ever you are. >> anywhere in the system at all. so no need for multiple key presses, >> when that one command will take you to your taskbar quickly. >> then, also, another handy feature of the taskbar, is the ability to >> use windows key, along with 1 through to 0. so, for example. lets say >> i have firefox in the first position on the task bar. just press >> windows key and 1, from anywhere in the system, and firefox will open. >> also, if it is already open, and this is rather handy, pressing that >> command will switch to it's window. so no having to alt tab through to >> find the firefox window, just press the windows key, and the 1 key. >> >> just thought i'd put this out there, as people may or may not know of >> these commands, and how much easier they make things in windows. >> >> Dallas > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
