Hello, CathyAnne and Anna. First of all, I have been greatly enjoying the material I purchased from each of you on understanding Windows 7 with JAWS and the iPod Touch/iPhone, respectively. It's very detailed, and I have absorbed truly only a fraction of what you two have written. But these are fantastic references, and I have learned a few shortcuts from them already, with many more to come.
My primary question here is about optimizing graphical-oriented settings in JAWS 11 (or above) so that it will work effectively with the Replay A/V audio and video capture program produced by Applian. I figured that the two of you, given your varied expertise, might have run across this issue before. Not long after upgrading my Dell laptop to Windows 7, I started experiencing accessibility problems when I attempted to install and use the latest version (8.3) of that particular program. My disappointment started when I discovered that much of Replay A/V now appears to be inaccessible to me--as in when I attempt to find and select a specific Internet radio station or to order up a customized recording for a later time. The only way I've found to use this program even partially is through utilizing the JAWS Cursor; but even with this method I can't effectively search for a radio or TV station, nor can I easily edit the properties for anything I wish to record or capture on given days or at given times. In the past I've never had to use any kind of JAWS scripts for this program, nor have I seen that any were ever written. I never had to use the JAWS Cursor--just the application cursor in conjunction with Tab and Arrow keys. The Media Guide used to look exactly like a Web browser screen, and I read it easily in XP using the Virtual PC Cursor just as I would read a Webpage using Internet Explorer 8. A sighted colleague who looked at this with me said that the Media Guide in Ver. 8.3 is still nothing more than a Web page written in HTML 4, which JAWS ought to read just fine. But nothing shows up with the Virtual PC Cursor--no edit boxes, text, or links of any kind. As a result, I've begun to wonder what the optimal display settings are for Windows 7 if one is running JAWS 11 or above. I've noticed that the various display options I can set as a user in Windows 7 are much more refined than in previous versions, with not all of them being grouped in the same menu or part of the Control Panel as what I remember from Windows XP. For example, there is even a setting for whether I want the screen to be viewed in Landscape mode or Portrait mode--(mine was set to Landscape by default, surprisingly enough). So my main question is whether either of you, FS, or anyone else has published a comprehensive training guide to optimization of visual settings specifically for the Windows 7 OS. Tech support staff at Freedom Scientific has told me that in essence none of this matters any more, except for remembering to set the theme to Windows 7 Basic. I understand my dilemma here is OS related; but since a fairly high number of blind computer users have purchased the Applian Capture Suite or parts of it, I am copying the PC Audio Discussion List on this message in case someone there has specific experience doing what I am trying to do. Similar messages written to the JFW Support Mailing List and the Blindreplay list have resulted in inconclusive answers that tell me nothing about what to try. So thanks in advance to everybody for your patience, as well as for any help you might provide. Kind regards, -Kane To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
