Wow was a new beta released? I'm still using 9.0. was 9.1 released
today and i missed it?
On 11/25/2014 7:23 AM, Jim Grimsby Jr. wrote:
Hello,
I first want to start out by saying what an excellent job. You all
did with the new Window-Eyes 9.1 and browse mode. I am using it with
Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 64, and I am quite impressed. It
works exactly as advertised. Keep up the excellent work.
I do have a few observations, that I hope will be helpful. The first
thing that I am forced to point out is this, speak Summary does not
work. No matter where I am when I press it. It informs me that I am
not on an element. Unfortunately, there still is no way to find out
the name of the document being read. For example, if I go to the game
Day audio page and I elect to have nothing read how do I know what
document I am on and how do I know when it is ready to be perused? I
used to use status messages for this function, And while I have them
turned on. They apparently do not provide any information any
longer. I would strongly urge you in the new page section to add the
option to read the documents name, and of course to add an option to
read line to the read webpage options. This would be quite helpful.
I find myself quite a lot visiting webpages that I have been to
several times, and all I need to know is that yes I am in fact there.
meaning I need the name of the page, and yes my virtual cursor is at
the top of the document. If I want a summary of what is on the page.
I always use the speak summary command for this.
I have mentioned this before. However I feel compelled to mention it
again. Window-Eyes ability to read headings yes or no is rather
limiting. I would recommend the following options. read headings
before text. This would work as the current yes option does. read
heading after text. This would read the heading information after the
text is read, or no, also the read heading level should be separated
from read heading, because there is Sometimes that yes you want to
know that you're on the heading, but no you don't care what level it
is, currently you have to have both or none at all.
I also must ask if the search control, and place marker features will
be revived. The place marker feature is particularly important to me
due to the fact that I visit webpages on a number of occasions that I
have been to previously, and I need specific information from those
webpages. A good example of this is majorly's baseballs game Day
audio page during baseball season. I understand that a new approach
is being taken to deal with webpages, but I do hope that these
valuable features can be brought back soon.
You of course will need to remove the sections and browse mode
verbosity that are no longer use. Unless I misunderstood the status
section is no longer useful because there is no browse mode buffer and
therefore you don't need information on the status of the buffer.
Also I do not believe that indicate refresh rate is very useful any
longer either. As was discussed yesterday read a number of lines is
no longer relevant. So if you can't do it. Having the ability to
turn on or off the option is ridiculous.
Other than that, like I said I'm quite impressed. I have always
preferred Window-Eyes, and the way it handles the Internet. with the
new and improved browse mode. I am in Paradise, while surfing the
web. If I could have what I mentioned above. I think when it comes
to the web. I would be in heaven. Thank you very much for the
excellent work. Keep up the good work.
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