9.0 beta 1. Chris
Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Skarstad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Window-Eyes 9.1 and browse mode. 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. > 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.
