Re: OT: Labeling Millions of People
@DarkThat's just it, both candidates talk very little, if at all, about the issues that concern everyday working people. They're too busy digging up and slinging mud at their opponent. That, I believe is the reason for the debates, to hopefully get the
Re: OT: Labeling Millions of People
I'll jump in.While I'm not necessarily for Trump, I'm definitely against Hillary.She's untrustworthy, the way she handled her emails while Secretary of State proves it. She knew she was doing wrong when she set up that private server, but she didn't
Installer recommendations?
Moderators, I'm putting this in off topic because the installer I'm looking for isn't for a game. If you'd still prefer that this thread be in the Developers forum, feel free to move it, and please accept my apologies for posting it in the wrong place.I will soon
Installer recommendations?
I will soon be needing an installer to package some software I've been working on that's nearing completion.Years ago I used to use an installer called Astrum Install Wizard, but the company that nade it, http://www.thraexsoftware.com/, doesn't appear to be in
Re: OT: Labeling Millions of People
@assault_freakI'm just saying what a friend told me several years ago when I inquired about the possibility of moving out of the US.Now that I'm blind and on disability, there's no way they'd have me.@NocturnusYou said it, so I'm going to vote for anyone
Re: OT: Hillary Clinton and Mentally Challenged Children
And it's no surprise that Trump's campaign would stoop to such low tactics.Of course I also wouldn't be surprised if Hillary's campaign decided to spam everyone's inbox either.
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Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
Yeah, that's why I eventually gave up on Firefox. That video intercept driver is old technology that was created because there was a lack of accessibility hooks in operating systems.Now, unless Freedom Scientific wants to rewrite large
Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
@sid512The files on the CD are compressed, so Microsoft changes one letter of the extension to an underline to denote that. Durring the install process, the compressed files are uncompressed and the original extension restored.It's more
Re: OT: Hillary Clinton and Mentally Challenged Children
Can't you just wait for the November elections to be over and done with so all this crap can just go away?
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Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
@Andy93No, I don't think anyone is a hypocrite because they disagree with me.I believe they are hypocrits because they want to be a member of our society and given the same consideration as every other member of that society, but don't want to abide by that very
Re: OT: Labeling Millions of People
@DarkSimple. He said this thread should be deleted. Why? Because this site is not US based. That sounds very prejudiced against all the members of this forum that live in the US.
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Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
I wish you'd make up your minds about what you want. On one hand you want to be included in society and given the same consideration as everyone else is, but at the same time you want to be excused from obeying the laws everyone is required to obey so you can
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
I wish you'd make up your minds about what you want. On one hand you want to be included in society and given the same consideration as everyone else is, but at the same time you want to be excused from obeying the laws everyone is required to obey so you can
Re: OT: Labeling Millions of People
hhurstseth405 wrote:take it down. This forum is not US basedThat's a very close minded, discriminatory, and biggotted attitude. If we were to follow your request, we'd have to delete every topic that doesn't have anything to do with the UK. And if we did
Re: OT: Labeling Millions of People
hhurstseth405 wrote:take it down. This forum is not US basedThat's a very close minded, discriminatory, and biggotted attitude. If we were to follow your request, we'd have to delete every topic that doesn't have anything to do with the UK. And if we did
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
I don't know, both Freedom Scientific and Nuance were very interested and happy to get any information about the piracy of Eloquence.That the management of audiogames.net allows this thread and others like it to remain and the members promoting their piracy of
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
I don't know, both Freedom Scientific and Nuance were very interested and happy to get any information about the piracy of Eloquence.That the management of audiogames.net allows this thread and others like it to remain and the members promoting their piracy of
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
Ah, but Eloquence is being sold, by Code Factory, under license from Nuance to do so. So it's not abandoned or no longer available.Stealing Eloquence from an old version of JAWS isn't legal for several reasons. The first is that that copy of Eloquence is licensed
Re: Regarding Accessibility in New Products
Tell me about it. Despite the fact that I've had vision problems my whole life, I've never had any exposure to, or even thought about,blindness until I lost my own vision to glaucoma.And then there are companies like Valve who have been
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
This is a perfect example of one of the reasons why I've chosen to keep using JAWS and not to become a member of the NVDA user's community.For the sole reason that you don't like Nuances attitude, you believe that justifies stealing their product. I'm sorry, but
Re: screen lounge tv
So what would they be trying to protect themselves from?
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Everyone knows Android is very fragmented and that accessibility varies widely from one brand of phone to another. It sounds to me like you've gone out and found a worst case scenario to put down Android and build up Appple. Why? Are you afraid your
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
@DraqI would Imagine that writing a TTS engine that does a fairly good job producing intelligible speech isn't something for even intermediate level programmers to tackle.I consider myself to be an advanced level developer and I wouldn't have even the faintest
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
@DraqI would Imagine that writing a TTS engine that does a fairly good job producing intelligible speech isn't something for even intermediate level programmers to tackle.I consider myself to be an advanced level developer and I wouldn't have even the faintest
Re: screen lounge tv
One has to wonder about a web site that doesn't want new members.Probably best to just move on.
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Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
As far as I know, Eloquence is owned by Nuance, and it doesn't matter whether they are maintaining it or not, it isn't abandoned, so a license to use Eloquence with NVDA would be needed for it to be legal.The remark about not recording a podcast with itseems to
Re: eloquence 4.7 for nvda
How legal is it? It doesn't matter how old it might be, if it isn't properly licensed, it's still software piracy, which I thought wasn't permitted on these forums.
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
I am not judging you. If you like what Apple provides and are willing to ignore some of the choices they are making for you, that is your choice, more power to you.But there are some here trying to sell the idea that we should all blind ourselves to the
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
I agree that abandoning iOS for Android just because of an earphone jack is kind of silly, so I'll voice my opinion of Apple's decision by not buying into the iPhone 7 series. I'd be willing to bet though that after all the negative feedback, Apple changes
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
For the present, I'm not abandoning iOS either, because while it has come a long way, Android still has a long way to go to equal iOS' accessibility.I just refuse to buy into the iPhone 7 and Apple's decision to remove the earphone jack.
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Re: Anyone know if Rockbox still exists, and what players support it?
If you end up with both of them, you'll have a backup.Oh, I thought it was a site with a general selection of accessible electronics, not a site dedicated to rockbox capable mp3 players.
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
At present, the only company or group of people making an accessible product that I would even consider saying that they care are the people behind NV Access and NVDA. I myself don't use it, I use JAWS and am very happy with it, considering it money well
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Same here, as long as it is there, whether Apple gives a rats ass or not doesn't matter to me.I just find it very annoying to hear people claim that Apple cares, when, in truth, they have no proof one way or the other. You may as well claim that money grows
Re: Anyone know if Rockbox still exists, and what players support it?
Ah yes, I'd be very reluctant to take the Victor Reader to the beach. For that I'd want something cheap too.Have you tried eBay? You can often find discontinued stuff there. Two weeks ago I picked up an NFL strategy game
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Or, hold off on doing that initial set up until you are someplace where you have some privacy to enter your password.From my experience, nothing on the phone is so important that it can't wait until I am some place where I can have some privacy.
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Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
Maybe you did, or maybe you didn't, but I can report that I also noticed that the page index was always a letter or two off when going from the index to list entries. Until I hear that the index is definitely fixed, I just
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Because I don't need or want to pay for two phones. That is why I dropped my land line when I started using a cell phone.
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Re: why, microsoft office?
Something interesting I discovered years ago, probably old news now.On a whim, I looked at one of the new x files from Office 2007 with a hex editor, and noticed that the file started with the letter P and K, just like zip files do. So I renamed a docx file to a
Re: why, microsoft office?
Something interesting I discovered years ago, probably old news now.I look at one of the new x files from Office 2007 with a hex editor and noticed that the file started with the letter P and K, just like zip files do. So I renamed a docx file to a zip file and
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
True.The one thing that may hinder Android is how fragmented it is. Accessibility of Android can vary widely from one phone manufacturer to another.The lack of fragmentation in iOS is the one advantage to Apple's way of doing things that I will grant
Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
As I recall, the index stopped working in iOS 9, I discovered it in the music app. If it also stopped working in contacts, then it probably stopped working in any app that uses the index. And I figured out using the rotor set
Re: why, microsoft office?
It's possible for an install of an application to go wrong without the user doing anything illegal or the vendor doing anything malicious.I currently can't install the cumulative update for Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft released yesterday because it causes IE to
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
A commitment to accessibility generates goodwill, and goodwill is a valid marketing strategy, and can be a powerful one as well.Apple may be ahead in the accessibility game now, but both Android with Talkback and Windows with Narrator are catching up fast.
Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
I'm still waiting to hear how it performs on a 5s.
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Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
AppleVis may have an article on it, but how much real information can be in it on only the first day it was released?
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@BryantYou misunderstand, while Apple may be into accessibility as a marketing tool, that doesn't mean we don't appreciate it, and what it does for us.That appreciation doesn't include a love of all things Apple so blinding that we will freely give up our
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@NocturnusOuch! For colds and fevers my brother swears by EmergenC, it's basically a mega dose of vitamin C. I use these lozenges that you take as soon as you begin to feel a cold or fever coming on, unfortunately I can't recall the name of them just now.
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Exactly, for most companies, they use accessibility as a marketing tool, not because they give a crap about the visually impaired, because they don't, all they care about is their bottom line on their profit and loss statements.The only companies that might
Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
I am interested in iOS 10 primarily for the ability to remove those prepackaged apps I don't use.I don't expect it to be any more or less buggy than their past major version releases have been, which means I will wait for at
Re: why, microsoft office?
If I didn't have Office 2007 from when I was working and got it on Microsoft's At Home Use program for $10, I'd be using Open Office. Thanks for that tip about Libre Office, I didn't know about it.
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
I'm actually not that worried about Apple trying to get into schools, big business is all about their bottom line and Apple's over priced, sole source products simply can't compete with all the PCs available, or the wealth of products available for them.
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
I heard that lie. Everybody else can add new things to their phones without removing the earphone jack. Is Apple so inept that they can't do what everybody else is? First they said the jack had to be removed to make the phones more water proof, then when
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@BryantThat's the problem, people like you who are willing to just sit on your hands and take whatever somebody else decides is what you want, just empowers and encourages those people to grab for more control over what they think we want.On the other hand,
Re: wave net brand new tts coming soon
Sounds impressive, I hope they'll offer JAWS compatible voices that won't require that I go through SAPI. If they don't, Eloquence is still pretty damn good.
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Unfortunately, your sarcasm gets filtered out by the internet. Some people can figure it out, but I have always struggled with trying to figure out somebody's intent based solely on the words of their messages. This is what usually gets me into trouble most
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@NocturnusSorry, it wasn't meant to be an insult. It was just meant to be a comment on all the praise you heaped on Apple in your post, when most people here question the wisdom of Apple's decision to remove the earphone jack from their phones.I have
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@NocturnusSorry, it wasn't meant to be an insult. It was just a comment on all the praise you heaped on Apple in your post, when most people here question Apple's decision to remove the earphone jack from their phones.I have removed the message.
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Re: Buying Eloquence
Well, how do you like that? I sent an email to Code Factory asking for assistance with lagging problems with programs that use their Eloquence for Windows, and so far, no response.So, not only is Nuance not supporting Eloquence by not maintaining it, Code Factory is
Re: why, microsoft office?
I've had Office installed on my computer as almost the first thing installed and have never had problems with it crashing or bogging down my system.But if you are set on not installing Office, you might want to look at Open Office, it's free and if I'm correct,
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@NocturnusSpoken like a true Apple fan boy. I'll bet you even have an altar so you can pray to the almighty Apple god.* Thou shalt have no other gods before me.* Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven imageWhere's that barf bag!
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@NocturnusSpoken like a true Apple fan boy.
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Yes, Apple has done a lot for accessibility with iOS and macOS. But notice that done is in the past tense, that's where Apple's innovation and progress in accessibility lay. In the past two and a half years that I've had an iPhone there has been no
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
[[wow]]!From the way all this feedback about the earphone jack sounds, we might start hearing Crapple instead of Apple, just as we often hear Moneysoft in place of Microsoft.Gotta laugh!
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Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Everyone should know by now, with it's walled garden that Apple is all about loading their products up with proprietary technology to tighten their noose around your neck to trap you in their ecosystem.Which is not surprising since Apple is slowly losing
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
Whether or not the new iPhones come with or without an ear phone jack makes no difference to me because I'm not upgrading from my 5s because I don't feel like spending $400 on a new phone.Even if I did upgrade, the lack of an ear phone jack wouldn't bother
Re: has anyone explored the deep web?
Thanks for that clarification of what the deep web is. I understood it to be a secret part of the web where hackers, crackers, and other similar types talked about and conducted their various illegal activities, and the reason it didn't show up in the
JfW Hangman?
I'm posting this here because I'm not certain that asking if anyone has a copy of an old game qualifies as a General Game Discussion. Moderators, if I'm wrong, please move this thread.While looking up Judgement Day to see if it's a game I might be interested in, I ran across
Re: Got new IPhone. Fixing to set up.
From my experience, and it's been a few years since I looked at cellular plans, your plan has to allow being a hotspot for that feature to work.As I understand it, 3D touch is optional, I know that if I ever get a phone with it, I'm turning it off.I
Re: updating a windows PC: help please?
Those long error numbers are near meaningless to us mere mortals, but if you search for it on google, you'll find a bunch of hits that claim to know the answer. One of them is bound to match your situation and have a good chance at having a
Re: Got new IPhone. Fixing to set up.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!What do you think a smart phone is? ;-)If I ever decide to upgrade my iPhone 5s, it will be to an iPhone SE, or what ever is the same size as the 5s.
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Re: Got new IPhone. Fixing to set up.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!What do you think a smart phone is? ;-)
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Re: Buying Eloquence
When I played Entombed, the was a note somewhere that using SAPI was preferred because the program would have no way of knowing when the screen reader was finished speaking. Perhaps if the screen reader APIs were used, that might not be a problem.For JAWS:In the
Re: Buying Eloquence
I think the timing issue is just something that might have to be lived with. When I played Entombed, there was a comment that using a SAPI voice was preferred because the game had no way to know when a screen reader was finished speaking.For JAWS:In the Eloquence
Re: Buying Eloquence
I believe there is, at least there is a folder within JAWS called FSAPI, Freedom Scientific API?, there is also an Eloquence folder so direct access to Eloquence might be possible.And so as not to forget NVDA usersNVDA, more than likely has an API too.
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Re: Buying Eloquence
I belive there is, at least there is a foldr within JAWS called FSAPI, Freedom Scientific API?, there is also an Eloquence folder so direct access to Eloquence might be possible.
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Re: Buying Eloquence
Here's a thought, though doing it is beyond me. And that is to create a bridge that would allow the Eloquence that comes with JAWS to be used as a SAPI 5 voice.Then I'd tell Code Factory what they can do with their DRM laced copy of Eloquence.
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Re: Buying Eloquence
It would be very hard to enforce packet sniffing as illegal. By the tems of the license agreement you are not reverse engineering or altering the binaries in any way. However what would bee more usefull is to scan the binaries for the URL to the license server, the do
Re: captcha browser add-on?
For Internet Explorer users, unless it's been added, there is no mention that you have to use Alt+F4 to dismiss the captcha solved window before you'll be able to paste the solution and continue.It took me about 10 minutes to figure that out the first time I
Re: Buying Eloquence
I don't believe it's a DLL loading, JAWS uses Eloquence and it loads in about 5 seconds.According to Code Factory's FAQs, it should only be checking it's license once a month, but maybe that's just a minimum and it checks whenever there's an internet connection.YEven
Re: sapi5 eloquence
I'd be willing to pay for another copy of Eloquence as long as it came with no DRM, or at least something more reasonable than the DRM CodeFactory is using on it now. Needing at least 30 seconds to start up is ridiculous!
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Re: Buying Eloquence
Well, how do you like that, I have egg on my face because now I have to retract my comments about not having any problems with the DRM Code Factory uses. I have a card game that uses SAPI 5 voices and it takes about 30 seconds to load, if I switch to the crappy Anna
Re: captcha browser add-on?
That's true, I encounter captchas very infrequently, but when I do they are a royal pain, even when an audio challenge is available. So far, Captcha Be Gone has made captchas a non issue.What I liked best about Captcha Be Gone is that instead of charging per
Re: captcha browser add-on?
I third the motion, I needed to solve a CAPTCHA last week. They provided an audio challenge, but the audio was of a bunch of people talking all at once with the voice you needed to hear barely audible above the rest. After half a dozen or so tries, I decided to
Re: Blind Mice Mega Mall mystery possibly solved
@PhilSo, are you saying that you unsubscribed from their marketing emails, and can still log on to your account? All your message says is that you can log on, but nothing at all about whether you still get their emails. If so, then my idea
Re: Blind Mice Mega Mall mystery possibly solved
I would like to remind everyone who wants to shout at me that I am wrong, the title and my message clearly says "possibly", not that I think I have found the answer.@PhilAs I recall your comments about the GMA Dice game Giovani is having
Blind Mice Mega Mall mystery possibly solved
In the past there have been several people that complained that every time they log into the Blind Mice Mega Mall to access the Movie Vault, they have to go through a password reset procedure because their password was apparently forgotten.I
Re: problem updating windows 7 home premium to ultimate
If you haven't tried it already, this might work for you.Non-destructive reinstall of Windows 7https://www.winhelp.us/non-destructive- … ows-7.htmlJust choose Ultimate instead of Home Premium when asked.
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Re: Security: what are you using?
Upgrading? It appeared to me that there was no free version, just a trial.
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Re: Security: what are you using?
@bucklee12Thanks, but rather than wade through all the extraneous crap file download sites tend to fill their pages with, I found it on jaws-users.com in the anti virus section of their software section. It still has accessibility issues, but it's a hell
Re: Security: what are you using?
I just finished trying out Spybot 2.4, while it might be accessible to NVDA users, most of it is inaccessible to JAWS users, which makes it inaccessible to me, it's not enough to be accessible through only one screen reader, to be considered accessible, it
Re: Security: what are you using?
@NocturnusI remember when Defender was introduced, and then Security Essentials later on. Since Windows 7 is just what Vista should have been, I guess for Windows 7 users, that's still the case.
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Re: Security: what are you using?
@NocturnusNice report, but with one little quibble, well done, thumbs up!I had always thought that Windows Defender was anti spyware protection that came with Windows and could be upgraded to Security Essentials which adds anti virus protection.I too am
Re: LG, what's your experience?
Android's fragmentation and my experiences with Talkback were the primary reasons why I switched to an iPhone despite how much I don't like the way Apple does business. But then I'm a Windows user and Microsoft isn't what I'd call innocent either!
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Re: Security: what are you using?
The last time I tried Avast, which was earlier this year, the only way to navigate it was to use the touch cursor in JAWS. I believe NVDA's object navigation is essentially the same thing.I personally don't see the advantage of cloud based virus scanning.
Re: problem updating windows 7 home premium to ultimate
Tab around to see if you can find a progress bar. The upgrader might have to download 2 or 3 giggabytes of data before the actual upgrade begins.
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Re: Amazon users may wish to be aware at times
I know what you mean, I recently replaced my color inkjet printer with a monochrome personal laser printer. I had a really tough time finding one that was accessible. I almost sent the one I eventually chose back because I couldn't get it to
Re: Security: what are you using?
Slightly off topic, but somewhat relevant too. I was reminded of this by Crashmaster's comments about false positives.A couple of days ago I decided to take a look at GMA's Lone Wolf submarine simulation. I normally have Microsoft's Smart Screen filtering
Re: Security: what are you using?
Slightly off topic, but somewhat relevant too. I was reminded of this by Crashmaster's comments about false positives.A couple of days ago I decided to take a look at GMA's Lone Wolf submarine simulation. I normally have Microsoft's Smart Screen filtering
Re: LG, what's your experience?
I've always considered LG to be a generic brand name when compared to real brands like Panasonic, Sony, and others. Despite that feeling, I got an LG Spirit cell phone running Android 4.0 from Metro PCS back in 2013. What a big mistake that turned out to be!
Re: Amazon users may wish to be aware at times
Ah, I haven't had that happen to me yet.Mistakes can happen, my folks worked at an Amazon fulfillment senter one summer, and from what they told me about how it all works, the only way that could happen is if the returned item gets labeled as
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