Hi Lloyd,
That's fantastic! I love to hear that speech is helping people be
productive all ove rthe world.
Keep the good news coming.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:14 PM
Subject: WE 7 Testimonial
Many of you know that I work at NLS, and that we primarily use Window-Eyes
(although employees could use JAWS if they really want to; we have
licenses
for both screen readers).
A new employee has come to the Quality Assurance Section and is using W-E
with a braille display and speech in the Q A of our digital talking books.
He was asked to note the sizes of various files within a ZIP archive. If
this were Windows XP, the situation might have been different. But we are
mostly using Windows 2000 at the moment. How many of you have ever used
Zip
Genius? It's a freebie from Italy that does a reasonable job at
compressing
and expanding archives in the ZIP format as well as others. But using W-E
6.1, he was having trouble locating the data or getting to it in an
efficient manner. I suggested that he download 7.0 and try the Virtual
View
script. He tells me that this script is enabling him to get the
information
he needs quite efficiently.
The virtual window function has existed in JAWS for quite a while, and it
needed to be made available in W-E. And the Virtual View script is doing
what it needs to do, at least in some situations.
Don't expect everything to work without errors, especially scripts written
by individuals who don't have access to a large number of combinations of
systems and software. Developers are also obliged to figuratively stay on
a
treadmill as the GW Toolkit script and the Homer Shared Objects script, in
particular, are constantly being upgraded. Use what you can use, and give
the developers feedback (perhaps not always on this list). Scripting
doesn't solve all of a screen reader's problems, and it can get quite
complex because the software being monitored is quite complex. I expect
some cool stuff to evolve in the next year, and some scripts will also be
abandoned. We live in interesting times.
I am writing this from home, but am obliged to state that the preceding
opinions are my own and do not represent the opinions of the Library of
Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
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