Jim, As a P.S., I'd also encourage you to start looking into upgrading to Windows 10. I loved Windows 7 and was really, really ambivalent about Windows 8/8.1, but Windows 10 really is a merger of the best of both of its immediate predecessors.
You may want to consider joining the Windows 10 Screen Reader Users group just to follow the experiences of others as a part of your decision making process. Brian
