Appreciate this: it does clarify what I had understood to be the situation.
Makes it also clearer regarding what I intend to do with respect to trade in plans with my local dealer. The new display will not be a Focus Blue, as Window-eyes is my bedrock screen reader from which all computer considerations develop. Thanks. From: Doug Geoffray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2014 10:29 a.m. To: Vaughan Dodd; 'Larry Lumpkin'; [email protected] Subject: Re: windoweyes and focus blue braille display Vaughan, The biggest issue is Freedom Scientific will not communicate with us in any way regarding Window-Eyes support for any Freedom Scientific braille display. Way in the past we had acceptable communication which allowed us to create a Window-Eyes driver based on their API. Their API has not changed in years and is our only interface into Freedom Scientific displays. They will not communicate with us or update this API in any way. Therefore we are left with what we have. Typically a braille display manufacturer will create their own Window-Eyes driver because they know best how to communicate with it and can keep the driver updated as new displays and updates are released. There is no fee involved in creating Window-Eyes braille drivers. Freedom Scientific has no desire to create Window-Eyes braille drivers. The issue of the display not coming back after a machine is woken from a sleep is part of the Freedom Scientific's API driver which we are using. But for obvious reasons, Freedom Scientific has no incentive to resolve this for Window-Eyes or any other screen reader. I am happy to report that most other braille display manufactures are very willing to work with us and keep their displays state-of-the-art with Window-Eyes. Regards, Doug On 1/21/2014 3:39 PM, Vaughan Dodd wrote: Larry: I notice this on occasions with other braille displays, but I'm not certain that it is automatically a Window-eyes fault. I guess that you are connecting via USB and sometimes a port power fluctuation, whilst not significant, is enough to shut down the display. A Window-Eyes restart reinitialises the whole configuration. the . Having said this, I believe there are issues between Window-eyes and the Focus displays, relating to the Freedom Scientific driver which has to be installed for these displays to operate. Window-Eyes supports more displays than its main competitor, but the ability to consistently support each display is severely hampered as the drivers are third party. I believe that the Focus displays have huge potential, but for reasons that only the major players can explain, the interface with Window-eyes is not great. In fact, I am wondering if I should replace my Focus Blue with a second Braille Edge. Others may be more knowledgeable though and maybe more helpful. Vaughan. From: Larry Lumpkin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2014 9:29 a.m. To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: windoweyes and focus blue braille display I have noticed that, when I wake up my machine after it has gone to sleep, the braille display will not return and I have to close and relaunch windoweyes to get it back. ------------------------------- This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this email and attachments is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the author immediately and erase all copies of the email and attachments. The Ministry of Social Development accepts no responsibility for changes made to this message or attachments after transmission from the Ministry. ------------------------------- ------------------------------- This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this email and attachments is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the author immediately and erase all copies of the email and attachments. The Ministry of Social Development accepts no responsibility for changes made to this message or attachments after transmission from the Ministry. ------------------------------- 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.
