I've tried WE a couple times and found pretty much the same thing. Part of it is, I believe, simply being used to jaws and the way it does things but even with a jaws keymap active it was still enough different that I kept stumbling. Plus there are certainly things where WE simply is not as capable, things that matter a great deal to me, the dictionary being the major item. WE dictionary entries simply could not deal with numerous punctuation sequences I use all the time. I will admit that the WE scripting system is vastly better than jaws' home built language but writing scripts is something I only rarely need to do and now that jaws supports UIA even that difference isn't all that important.
As for jaws and crashing I find the current situation with auto restart far preferable to what it did up until a few years ago where jaws crashing would very often freeze my entire system and a reboot was the only way to recover. Waiting thirty seconds to a minute is way better than wasting five plus minutes going through a reboot (plus losing all unsaved work). On 4/27/15, Michal Nowicki via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > There is probably no screen reader that never crashes. However, I've heard > rumors that WindowEyes crashes much less frequently than JAWS. As far as I > know, though, there is no solid evidence to back this up. > > At any rate, if you are considering switching to WindowEyes, keep in mind > that WindowEyes behaves very differently than JAWS. That is true of > keystrokes, as well as verbosity. I myself can't stand WindowEyes! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carolyn Arnold > via Jfw > Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:19 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Cc: Carolyn Arnold > Subject: Re: a problem I'm having > > How can we know that Window Eyes wouldn't crash? Whichever I get, I'm going > to have to out and out get the newest version. > > GIFT (God is forever true), > > Carolyn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom macha via Jfw" <[email protected]> > To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]> > Cc: "Tom macha" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 4:33 PM > Subject: Re: a problem I'm having > > >> Yes Carrylin, I agree witht the crashing issue on the issue with Jaws. I >> am thinking of switching to window-eyes. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Sent from Windows Mail >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Carolyn Arnold via Jfw >> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 4:34 PM >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. >> Cc: Carolyn Arnold >> >> >> >> >> >> I've been having more and more problem with the crashing in the last year, >> but thought it was because my windows and JAWS are pretty old. This is a >> little discouraging to think I'll still have to put up with it even after >> spending probably a thousand plus. >> >> GIFT (God is forever true), >> >> Carolyn >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dave Carlson via Jfw" <[email protected]> >> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]> >> Cc: "Dave Carlson" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 11:54 AM >> Subject: Re: a problem I'm having >> >> >>> Yes, JAWS is becoming a crashing bore. >>> >>> Dave Carlson >>> Oregonian, woodworker, Musician, and pioneer >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Michael Mote via Jfw" <[email protected]> >>> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <[email protected]> >>> Cc: "Michael Mote" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 08:45 AM >>> Subject: RE: a problem I'm having >>> >>> >>> If you're using the latest version of JAWS, that's probably due to the >>> fact >>> that JAWS stops working, and then restarts itself. It happens to me all >>> the >>> time. I understand the reasoning behind it, but you still don't have >>> speech >>> during that minute or so. You're wondering if your computer has frozen >>> or >>> what's going on. FS built that into JAWS 15 and 16. In 15, you can >>> control >>> when JAWS restarts. In version 16, it restarts for you. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Curt >>> Taubert >>> via Jfw >>> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 10:07 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: Curt Taubert >>> Subject: a problem I'm having >>> >>> When I play a game that requires jaws, I notice that every once in a >>> while >>> jaws will stop talking for sometimes a minute. 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