Raul and Bruce, I agree completely; however, I can picture some situations, such as a computer lab or a publicly available computer such as one in a library, which has window eyes loaded, and still needs to be able to accommodate the occasional jaws user who otherwise wouldn't likely know the window eyes interface, and not have time to learn it in that situation.
I think this ability is actually a strong selling point for Window Eyes, when marketing to institutions who provide such "occasional use" accessible computers, and who cannot afford to buy more than one screen reader. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Toews [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 1:10 PM To: Raul A. Gallegos; GW Info Discussion List Subject: Re: using window eyes Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool JAWS user, I agree completely with what you are saying here. I think that, to use a screen reader to its fullest potential, be it JAWS or Window-Eyes, you're best off using that screen reader's native interface. To do otherwise will at best yield a hybrid result: Instead of getting everything out of the screen reader, you get kind of a watered-down blend that sort of behaves like both, but doesn't really fully behave like either. Bruce On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:01:34 -0500, "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> said: > Hi. I think that people may feel comfortable with an established set > of hot keys. This way they are not fighting with the screen reader to > use Windows. However from our tech support experience, using the Jaws > layout in Window-Eyes seems to be a black and white issue. This means > that people either like it a lot or hate it a lot. The reason for this > is because the jaws layout emulates some of the hot keys which Jaws > uses, but because Window-Eyes and Jaws have different approaches to > handling things, the emulation doesn't go very far. > > Many thanks. > > On 1/7/2010 12:44 PM, Kimsan Song wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If someone is using window eyes what is the point of using the jaws layout? > > > > If you use the jaws layout because you are use to using jaws, why > > don’t you just use jaws instead? > > > > Not trying to start beef, I was just wondering that’s all > > since I’m a new user of window eyes. > > > > > > 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. > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > GW Micro Technical Support Team > Voice 260-489-3671, Fax 260-489-2608 > Web http://www.gwmicro.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. > 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. 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.
