Hello, I had an opportunity today to take a look at Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. Before I begin I want to state that I was very impressed with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. I highly recommend this program to anyone, that has a use for voice dictation.
As users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking will no, It is necessary to change the keyboard assignments from their defaults to avoid conflicting with screen reader functions. In previous versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This dialogue presented hotkeys in a list of buttons and it was necessary to use the mouse cursor to determine what hotkeys were defined. Nuance has redesigned this dialogue. It makes a lot more sense, and is definitely more accessible. When you navigate to the hotkeys section of the options dialog box in the Tampa order you see reset to defaults button, edit button, and then a list view listing all of the hotkeys with the okay, cancel, and apply buttons. It seems to me that the tab order should be changed to the list view, edit, reset to defaults, okay, cancel and apply, due to the fact that you cannot edit anything until you have selected from the list view the hotkey that is to be edited. Unfortunately, this dialog box has a serious problem. The problem is that with every screen reader that I have tried it on as soon as the list view to select the hotkeys gets focused Dragon will crash. I discovered that this is a problem with user interface automation I was able using Window-Eyes to set user interface automation to 0, which disables it in the wineyes.INI file. Then I was able to focus this list view and to work with this list view without any problems using Window-Eyes. I thought I should report this to AI squared, so that they could confirm whether or not the bond is reproducible on other machines, and to inform nuance of the problem with suggestions on how it might be corrected. I also am reporting it here to the list, so that anyone using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, who wishes to change the hotkeys will know the workaround for the moment, so they might do so. Thank you for reading and I hope this helps. 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.
