With respect: the key word is "now" in that the pace of change in this game is rapid, and the life of legacy applications is shorter.
Some on this list were not alive when Windows 95 came along. Even before Windows 95, with its predecessor of Windows 3.1, there was much hand wringing about the death of computing for blind people. We waited months for screen reader developers to get Windows 95 working. And - Window-Eyes was not the first. Over the years, the lag between the new operating systems and the screen readers working with them has got smaller, to the point that because GW Micro had Windows Vista working for us coinciding with its release, we have come to expect major applications and the operating systems they run on to work "now" with screen reader developers being ready to sell the compatible products. People who are much mor expdert than I, regarded GW Micro's release of a Vista ready Window-Eyes as being the best of the pack. If memory serves - that was four (perhaps five) years ago, and although Vista was something of a lemon - it worked and Window-eyes lead the way. I am not an industry insider, but I do exspect that a Window-Eyes upgrade will be available inside six months, because of the changes which are happening within the Microsoft dominated software industry. If we believe that UIA is unstable now - it will be more robust by the end of the year, and I expect that problems people are having with IE9 will be less intrusive. I do recognise that no one can now easily keep up with the rate of change, but my experience is that usually - the latest developments are worth it, and I for one exercise my freedom to choose and I just have to take the consequences. I am generally happy with IE 9. The suggestions that people have made on this list have usually been helpful. I am also happy with Windows Seven and Ofice 2010, and even if it was very easy to do - I would not be going back. Vaughan. -----Original Message----- From: Robert C [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 3:45 p.m. To: Vaughan Dodd; Don H; gwmicro Subject: Re: IE 9 and WE 7.5 The key word is "eventually". ;) It takes time for everything to come up to speed when new protocols and standards and the like come out. Thing is, we never reach that point. I recall everyone screaming for 64bit support. How long before the same thing happens when 128bit reaches us. And the cycle repeats itself. This is where I push away from my computer and whistle for my guide dog and take her out for the night. LOL Quote of the nanosecond... I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- [email protected] Home Page- http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vaughan Dodd" <[email protected]> To: "'Robert C'" <[email protected]>; "Don H" <[email protected]>; "gwmicro" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 7:34 PM Subject: RE: IE 9 and WE 7.5 > The challenge is the replacement for MSAA. Doug has explained on the Main > Menu interview of a couple of weeks ago that it provides a means by which > access technology can identify a range of new elements. Microsoft is > incorporating the new user interface automation into more of its new > applications, and I think we are dealing with a clash of the old and the > new. > > GW has to keep current, because it has no control over what people > purchase, but the general rule will always be that people eventually > replace their computer systems - hardware and software. Priority must go > to supporting Windows Seven over XP, in the same way many cycles ago > priority went into support XP over Windows 98 and ME. > > > > Personally: my impressions of IE 9 are favourable, but there are > problematic web sites. They actually seem to be the same ones that were > problematic under IE8 and Firefox. > > Vaughan. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert C [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:21 PM > To: Don H; gwmicro > Subject: Re: IE 9 and WE 7.5 > > What is so hot about IE9? Is IE 7 and 8, and Firefox 3.x obsolete now? > Maybe the banking sites are not up to snuff on the new browers yet. A > well > worn but valid phrase comes to mind... 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