I've thrown this challenge at various screen readers over many years,
and I guess it's time to throw it at Window-Eyes. :)

I do a lot in  console windows--editing, mail and some web browsing
using Cygwin programs, etc.  There are two areas where this proves
very iffy in Windows, and I wonder if Window-Eyes, with or without
custom scripting, can address these:

1.  When a bunch of text rapidly scrolls by, Windows screen readers
often miss chunks of it and/or repeat other chunks more than once.  I
see new scroll-related events in Beta3 but haven't played with them
yet.  The goal here would be to have the screen reader be sure not to
miss any text (unless, of course, I tell it to shut up).

2.  Some screen readers provide a means of skimming by line while text
is appearing or, as often of interest to me, after a screen has
appeared but while the screen reader is still reading it.  JAWS skips
to the start of the next line on a press of a Shift key.  The old PC
Vert system, from ancient DOS days, did this with Ctrl+K if I remember
correctly.  I'm wondering if Window-Eyes currently provides, or can be
made to provide, this functionality somehow.


-- 
Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer
SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand
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"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done,
it was done." --Helen Keller

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