How can that be when this only happens on gwmicro.com? I ended up using my
Ipod touch to connect to gwmicro and listening to the podcasts.
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From: "Vaughan Dodd" <[email protected]>
To: "'Russ Kiehne'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: Guess What? – Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 – IE 9 and Windows Live
Maybe a Windows firewall setting on your machine.
Vaughan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Kiehne [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, 5 February 2011 6:49 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Guess What? – Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 – IE 9 and Windows Live
When I go to www.gwmicro.com/beta and try to download one of the Guess What
mp3's, I'm told I don't have the security to do so? Why is this? I have no
problems downloading from other sites. I'm using windows 7.
When I go to ----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:29 PM
Subject: Guess What? – Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 – IE 9 and Windows Live
Guess What? – Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 – IE 9 and Windows Live
Guess What? – Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 – IE 9 and Windows Live
Disclaimer
The following message includes information regarding Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta
1. Please note that Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 HAS NOT been released at this
time. We are, however, providing you with some small glimpses into the
features that Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 will contain. We are currently not
answering any questions regarding the functionality of the beta. The only
things we are going to talk about will be what we have included in our new
Guess What series, which will continue daily up to the beta release date.
We will answer all questions at that time. Please be patient; you will be
rewarded.
If you are subscribed to the GW Micro or Guess What podcast feed, you will
automatically receive this Guess What in MP3 format. Check out
www.gwmicro.com/podcast for more information. For sighted users, go to
our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/gwmicro to see the video of the
Guess What. If you want to download the MP3, read this article online, or
view more Guess What articles (when they are released), please visit
www.gwmicro.com/beta.
Enjoy!
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Welcome to GW Micro's "Guess What?" series, an introductory look at the
highly anticipated release of Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1. Window-Eyes 7.5
Beta 1 offers innovative support for Internet Explorer 9 – the next
generation of web browsers. Internet Explorer 9 not only offers a new
streamlined design but also adds support for HTML 5, pinned sites that
lets you directly pin your favorite websites to your Taskbar for easy
access, as well as hardware acceleration that makes browsing the web even
faster. For more information on all of the new features of Internet
Explorer 9, please visit www.microsoft.com.
Let’s take a look at how Window-Eyes works with Internet Explorer 9. It
should be noted that this Guess What is using a private build of Internet
Explorer 9, so the results with the current public beta of IE 9 will vary
from this Guess What. First, press Windows Key-R to open the Run dialog.
Then, type “www.gwmicro.com” and press Enter. The webpage opens in IE 9.
Browse mode automatically turns on, and browsing the web works just as it
did before. You can still use Window-Eyes to easily navigate a web page
by line, character, word, link, heading, as well as other HTML elements
with the press of a single key . You should note that IE 9 uses a new
technology called User Interface Automation (UIA). UIA and its other
improvements and implications for software will be discussed in greater
details in tomorrow’s Guess What.
Everyone’s favorite hotkey, Insert-Tab (which brings up the Page
Navigation dialog), still works just as it always has. If you press
Insert-Tab, you will immediately get a list of links. The dialog has all
of the capabilities that you have come to know and love, such as the
ability to list your place markers and controls. Pressing Esc will take
you back to the webpage.
Open a new tab by pressing Control-T, and an interesting new feature will
display. The assumption of opening a new tab is that you will type a new
web address, so let’s Tab until we get to the browser window. Links to
your most popular sites will appear. The site that I happen to visit the
most is GW Micro, so it is the first in the list. Move to the next item
in the list, and in this case, you will hear that my second most visited
site is Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Any of these can be hidden at any time,
but a nice feature here is that you can press your Context Menu key, Down
Arrow to Pin to Start Menu, press Enter, and you have just pinned that
site to your Start menu. Yet again, Window-Eyes is there every step of
the way.
What if you want to search for something in IE 9? You could go to your
default search engine, but why not just search from you address bar? Type
in the search term and IE 9 will automatically list the search results.
Let’s try searching for “Window-Eyes.” First, press Alt-D to access the
Address bar. Next, type “Window-Eyes” and press Enter. Bing happens to
be the default search provider. Press H until you hear “All Results.”
Then, the next item you hear will be the first search result. Place focus
on the link via your favorite method, press Enter, and you are off to that
webpage.
Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 is right there with you every single step of the
way as you browse the web with Internet Explorer 9. When Internet
Explorer 9 ships to the public, you can rest assured that Window-Eyes will
be ready so make sure you are too by upgrading to Window-Eyes 7.5.
What about using other new software from Microsoft, such as Windows Live
Messenger? Windows Live Messenger 2011 was pushed out as a critical
update for Windows, and it now uses a newer technology that Window-Eyes
7.5 Beta 1 supports. We noted that many of you are using Windows Live
Messenger, and GW Micro wants to make sure that we are keeping up with the
latest technology, so Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 adds full support for Windows
Live Messenger 2011. To take advantage of Windows Live Messenger, you
will need to download and install it, then setup an account, and sign in.
These are steps that we will not cover here. I’ll open Windows Live
Messenger by opening the Start menu with the Windows Key, then type
“Windows Live Messenger,” and press Enter. My account information is
already there, so I’ll press Enter to sign in.
Once Windows Live Messenger opens, it automatically goes to the
Notification Area on my computer. Press Windows Key-B to access the
Notification Area, Down Arrow to Windows Live Messenger, and press Enter.
The main window of Windows Live Messenger appears and I can start moving
through the contacts, or I can search for a contact. Down Arrow until you
get to a contact. In my case, I’ll Down Arrow until I get to my first
contact, which is Aaron Smith. Then, press Enter. You are automatically
put into the edit box where you can type a message. I will type, “Hello,
Aaron! Welcome to the Guess What demo!” After I press Enter, the text
goes into a pane above that shows the history of our conversation. When
Aaron writes back, we will hear what he says. At any time, you can review
the conversation history by pressing F6. Then, use the Arrow keys to
navigate through the text. When are finished reviewing the text, press
Shift-F6, and you will be placed back in the edit box where you can type
another message. Even with the technology new to Messenger, you can hear
that Window-Eyes has no problem traversing Windows Live Messenger 2011.
Another great feature about the new version of Windows Live Messenger is
that tabbed messaging is now supported. Suppose you want to talk to more
than one person. You can press Alt-Tab until you get back to the list of
contacts, and press Enter on another contact to speak with. As soon as
you press Enter on the contact, the message to the new contact, and the
message to Aaron are put inside one window with two tabs. You can press
Control-Tab to switch between the tabs.
Once again, Window-Eyes is keeping up with the rapid pace of technology to
enable you to be productive and efficient, whether you are in a
professional environment, an educational environment, or simply using
Window-Eyes at home. Window-Eyes continues to forge ahead through its
innovative support of both Internet Explorer 9 and the newer technology
found in Windows Live Messenger 2011.
We still have a few more items that make Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1 an even
more well-rounded, well worth it upgrade, including some additional
features, and a solid collection of bug fixes. Stay tuned for tomorrow's
"Guess What?" to learn more about Window-Eyes 7.5 Beta 1, as well as an
exciting promotion to help you upgrade from 7.2 to 7.5.
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