-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trying to answer most of Keith's concerns in one post: I'm also using Window Eyes, more or less successfully on my 64-bit Vista machine. Coming from JAWS, I do notice that WE is sometimes not as responsive no matter which synth I use (most noticeably in list views). I'm one of the (probably few) people who speed synthesizers up pretty fast (Access32 around 100 and eloquence around 85 or 90 on the WE rate scale). At those speeds, the delays are noticeable compared to other systems (both Dectalk and Eloquence have their different issues). All that being said, my system has been up for weeks without being brought down by the screen reader, and IMO, the WE 64 bit support is quite far ahead of that provided by JAWS at the current time.
It's really a personal choice what screen reader you want to use. I'm using WE for some of these reasons: - - stability, if it crashes I can bring it back up and keep going knowing that it'll reload without needing a reboot. I run Linux in virtual machines on this system so having to unexpectedly reboot can be extremely irritating in trying to restore what I was doing. - - Technical support, if I have a WE related problem that I can't solve on my own, GW support will do their best to help. - - Centralized documentation and Script Central - the docs are included with WE, and Script Central is a great resource for finding scripts. Once I bootstrap with Install Packages, if someone releases a script I want (for example Jeff's Winamp scripts), I can go through a few dialogs and they're installed. Not to mension the ability to add and remove global scripts without editing a central script file that can potentially be error-prone. - - Browse mode boundary - the tab key always works or says "No link or control", instead of randomly jumping me from the middle of whatever I was reading to a toolbar or somewhere else. - - I get access to the same synthesizers and braille displays no matter if I'm on 32 bit or 64 bit. I could probably come up with more if I thought about them. Now for some disadvantages and possible workarounds: - - SSH client support, it's sort of usable but nowhere near what you would get with an older JAWS or a dos machine acting as a terminal (Newer JAWS has some issues with SecureCRT and Putty's scrolling doesn't work that well with anything). I spend most of my time in an ssh session, so just have an xp VM doing that job until I can find another solution. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:09:09PM -0500, Karyn Campbell wrote: > Keith, > > For your information,I run Eloquence on both a Vista and XP machine with no > problems. I don't know what kind of information you are getting but I > question whether it is reliable and trustworthy. I'm running on a 32-bit > OS. > > I even run 7.1 using Eloquence on a computer at work and this computer is on > a network using an exchange server. I don't use a lot of scripts either. > > Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected] > Using WE 7.1 on Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista home premium SP 1 with > Office 2007 and IE 7 as well as WE 7.0 on two-year-old Dell Enspiron 1501 > laptop running Windows XP home SP 3 with Office 2003 and IE 6 and AVG 8.5 on > both machines. Both machines are running 32-bitt OS. > Chheck out my blog at packerbackerkaryn.blogspot.com > > > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can > be searched through and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. - -- Tyler Spivey - PGP Key ID: 048C58A4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqE6E4ACgkQTsjaYASMWKTgwwCeJMgLSu4UeZzdFfR9vcx9eZFa XZoAn1VsGQQG0ExmOZESd4ZiWvg4WbdN =5Wfj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
