I never used Vista but I did see a friend install and work with it with
Jaws. I don't think he cared for it much, but my daughter says some of the
menus and the control panel resemble XP. I am right now using a
computer--hopefully temporarily--with Windows 7. Some blind people say it
works similar to XP but I don't see how. And keeping this on the topic of
Jaws, I find that Jaws has a hard time giving us detailed info in Windows 7.
I will warn anyone who tries it that the folders are a nightmare, but
another Jaws user did give me a fix for this--although Jaws still won't read
exactly how many items a folder has. The control panel in 7 is set up with
links, and I find it very hard to find what I need to find. And if your
computer is a 64-bit, I don't think Jaws scripts have been made for programs
like Winamp that I used with ease in XP. F.S. is trying to keep up with
these new programs, but I think they're either too graphical or just too
hard to get around, and F.S. is doing all they can.
I will say that this machine with Windows 7 does a great job surfing the
Net. In XP using Internet Explorer 7 it looked like many sites were
Jaws-inaccessible. But Windows 7 and Internet 8 seem to work well for
working with websites.
But it's the off-line features of Windows 7 that I wish could be changed, or
at least a more blind-friendly or classical-menu-type setup should come out
for us.
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From: "Rick Justice" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:50 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] window 7 and vista
Hi Kimsan,
Windows 7 is really nothing more than a stripped down version of Vista.
If I were forced to move to a new operating system from Microsoft,
it would certainly not be Vista.
So far, my computing experience with Jaws 11 and Windows 7 has been less
than desirable.
It's a shame that companies these days will ruin a decent product in the
name of money.
HTH,
Rick Justice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimsan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:10 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] window 7 and vista
So with vista out and window seven out. I just want to get some opinions
concerning the two.
I hear that window seven is just an extention of vista, what did this
person
say? Window seven is the sister program of vista. I'm thinking about
purchasing a new laptop but if W seven is not much of a difference from
vista then I will just stick w/what I have.Don't go around saying the
world
owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark
Twain
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