well.
This will be the last time i ever upgrade jaws.
64 bit is the way foreward and was the reason why I upgraded hal in
the first place.
I have jaws 6.2 as part of my work, but unless the agency and
business forces me into an upgrade I won't be upgrading ever again or
at least till this is fixed.
At 11:39 p.m. 7/03/2011, you wrote:
Alex and others,
Despite Freedom Scientific's claims, JAWS appears not to fully
support 64-bit Windows, either Windows 7 or Vista.
Our company encountered this in 2010 specific to programs written in
Java, but I suspect the problem is wider.
We did extensive research on this when JAWS stopped speaking our
games when running under 64-bit Windows 7.
FS tech support told us in March of 2010, " The issue currently is
the accessibility bridge not loading as it should in the Windows 64
bit environment."
John Oliviera, a colleague who runs the Mass. Council for the Blind,
told me: "FS is well aware of the problem but they only do what they
can. They would like major companies to pay them to solve the
specific problems but most have refused to pay because it can be costly."
Another colleague said that he'd notified FS of this problem in June
of 2009 re 64-bit Vista.
The general problem seems to be JAWS not looking in the 64-bit
systems directory for stuff it needs.
The symptom can be either JAWS speaking just the Windows title bars
and keystrokes, or being totally silent.
BTW. Our tests showed that NVDA works just fine on 64-bit Windows.
Again, I suspect their bug affects more than just Java.
However, there's a bigger implication than just for games.
Say you rely on a software tool for your job.
And you rely on JAWS.
Then I.T. comes in and upgrades you to 64-bit Windows 7.
You can't do your job.
In any event, for our own stuff we're relying on SAPI voices and
just using what remains of JAWS as a nice-to-have.
I personally think that FS is shooting themselves in the foot. Based
on the evidence, and my 30+ years of software engineering
experience, this does not look like a tough problem to fix.
John Bannick
CTO
7-128 Software
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