And, If you spent all evening wrestling with your banking site, it must be that NVDA didn't really work there very well, either.
Louis Gosselin -----Original Message----- From: Robert C [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:50 PM To: Keith Barrett Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: window-eyes on the net, bit of a rant Irrespective of the fact that you find NVDA seems to work better, have you considered the possibility that it is in fact the Internet that is become such a beast that it takes a great deal to overcome its rampant lack of standards? Even for low vision users, the Internet is a bear. So if NVDA is so wonderful, why are you not using it full time? Quote of the nanosecond... Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage with a special sauce. Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn E-mail- [email protected] Home Page- http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/ On 4/18/2012 1:38 PM, Keith Barrett wrote: > Can I start by saying I have been a window-eyes user since version 4.0 > and up until version 6.x I found it more or less met all of my > requirements. > > In recent times, however, I am having more and more issues when using > the net. > > My main issues are, pages constantly reloading, regardless of the > autoload settings and links and onclicks seem often to be invisible to > window-eyes. > > I find that now, in order to make full use of the internet, I have to > use nvda most of the time. > > As my sma has no more upgrades left, I now have to decide whether to > renew it or donate the ammount I would have spent to nvda. > > I am wondering how window-eyes can have, seemingly, fallen so far behind. > > I know that there is the suggestion that window-eyes will perform > better in some applications and this may well be so but with the > internet playing such a huge parte in most people's lives, surely, this should work. > > Also, I believe that previously, as the readme states, window-eyes was > the most stable screenreader out there but this seems to have changed > since the introduction of scripting. I now have all scripting turned > off just to try and make window-eyes the most stable screenreader. > > I do not usually send much to this list but I am really not sure that > I can consider spending any more on the product when there seem to be > so many issues on the internet. > > I hope that for those of us who feel unable to continue with an sma at > present, there will be a chance to upgrade again at a reasonable cost > if window-eyes can return to the quality product that us old-time > users are used to. > > Just thinking aloud and as a final thought, bearing in mind how far > nvda seems to have come in its short life, could it be time to > consider making window-eyes open source so that it can get the > development it needs to keep up with the changing technologies. > > Hope noone has been offended by any of this but having spent the > evening trying to navigate my online banking site, I needed to let off some steam. > > Regards > > Keith Barrett > 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. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
