I haven't noticed that sort of thing happening with more modern versions of
supernova, though i do admit it could happen occasionally with windows that
were either the wrong size or not maximized in earlier versions, and you
could usually get around it by restricting dolphin curser to the current
area, or alt tabbing out and in a window.
I think the architecture has changed fairly significantly though on that
point now.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pitermach" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Eamon Deluxe Update-12-27-2011
The reason screen readers actually used video intercept was back in the
early 90's when windows and Office were taking off, there were no
standardized Access API's. By the time those got developped the developers
didn't really change well, most of them at least.
Taking JAWS and NVDA as an example, list views have a determined size for
each column, which may sometimes result in things being shortened
on-screen. Regardless of that NVDA always reads the whole thing, while
jaws will just read the abbreviated version and end with "dot dot dot",
making a blind person have to hopefully find an option to make it larger
and if not... just dealing with it as is.
Something similar happens in notepad. NVDA always has access to the whole
edit field, so the window doesn't have to be maximized or anything. With
JAWS, frequently a not maximized window will either result in just the
desktop icons or some other window being read with mixed portions of
actual text, and even if it's maximized, a baloon may again cause that
kind of thing to happen.
However I think supernova is the one that really just uses the video
intercept the most. I had problems in really large desktops of 200+ icons
where if I Just got out of what it could see it'd just say no focus
detected, same in a start menu, if scrolling is unchecked eventually
you'll just exit its visibility and hear, start no selection as long as
you're in that area.
I didn't have so many issues with NVDA or window-eyes.
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