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@Dark that's wonderful.Dolphin made a PCMCIA card for the Apollo II family for use with notebooks of the time, called Gemini. It had a distressing habit of fraying at the seam between the card and the module bolted onto its exterior end, into which you plugged
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@Dark that's wonderful.Dolphin made a PCMCIA card for the Apollo II, called Juno. It had a distressing habbit of fraying at the seam between the card and the module bolted onto its exterior end, into which you plugged your headphone jack. In an exam, once
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[[wow]] Sebby, I remember the Apollo, great clunking box that it was, though it did give surprisingly quick reaction speed being a hardware synth. I did have one occasion in a history lesson where apparently the Apollo box had fused and it proceeded to melt
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I've been a long-time Dolphin customer, too. Ever since the days of their old external speech synthesisers (Mimmic, Apollo, etc) and Hal for DOS. Great years, great company. A shame they've come to this. Even Supernova for Windows was technically brilliant
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I've been a long-time Dolphin customer, too. Ever since the days of their old external speech synthesisers (Mimmic, Apollo, etc) and Hal for DOS. Great years, great company. A shame they've come to this. Even Supernova for Windows was technically brilliant
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I am going to make a bold, bold prediction here. But at any rate, I think that as Narrator and NVDA continue to evolve, paid for screenreaders will eventually go the way of the dinosaur in terms of knowledgable users. The only support and purchases I think
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Well Garret as I said, supernova used to be an exceptionally good screen reader I was happy with. It used to be that supernova didn't concentrate on extra bells and whistles such as keys to read time and battery life (though it was easy enough to switch
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Yes, I definitely recommend using NVDA as a primary. Jaws does the same basic things that NVDA does, accept that it has a few little fancy features here and there. Plus, it forces use of configuration profiles instead of just setting 1 thing to be used
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Well I just had another conversation with dolphin, and again got the annoying man I met before. unfortunately he was very much in the "well if you think it is better that's your view and I'm not listening because we support what we support", typ
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This probably makes the achievements of NVAccess all the more impressive which has been only funded through community support and the occasional grant to do X and Y (this is why you see NVDA versions for long amounts of time concentrating on fixing one thing
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Likely because Dolphin don't have as much cash as the likes of freedom scientific, Supernova has tended to have a late development schedule, but generally, at least up until windows 7 they seemed to get there in the end often as I said in a way that gave
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To an extent, the Dolphin rep was right. Windows 10 does use the new web rendering engine that was developed for Microsoft Edge, though it's really not too much of an excuse.One thing that could definitely trip up older screen readers in Windows 8 and newer
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@Seby I don't particularly know in terms of window eyes if the problem I had, problems which were pretty disasterous, were due to my inexperience, the fact that the computer it was installed on was a right royal mess (it literally self destructed soon after
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I am the one of the oldest NVDA users, but I've started using it fulltime since 2010 with no other screen reader installed. Recently I had to install licensed copy of Jaws 18 for another person, and I couldn't believe when I've discovered that JAWS 18, which
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FWIW, I have and maintain a license for all of the screen readers now (I got a head start from Dolphin courtesy of my work experience there). I can honestly say that, even today, every screen reader has its upsides and its downsides. Yeah, at the moment my
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@Chris, As I said, once upon a time, supernova was good for access by providing accessibility to most things, and mostly that access wasn't by specifically written scripts, since script files in supernova tend to be far more minimal than in many other screen
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@Sebby, I'm certainly not going to chuck supernova away, after all I paid for it, and it's entirely possible in the future there will be something that Supernova works with that Nvda doesn't. As far as other screen readers go, well my experience with Window
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I'm not surprised. It seems like all the commercial screen reader developers are behaving like this nowadays. All I'll say is that I'm happy with the current state of accessibility on Windows. I've been using NVDA exclusively since late 2012 and haven't given
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Hi.I don't have much experience with Supernova. I gave it a try many years ago, but found no reason to continue using it, because at this time, Jaws worked in more of my programs than Supernova.NVDA is an awesome screenreader for sure. I've used it every day
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Mmm-hmm. Had to happen, eventually.I wouldn't discard it outright. You need at least one "screen-scraping" screen reader. But you're right, Supernova, while very awesome in very many ways, is a highly traditionalist screen reader that only moves w
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That is true Blindncool. Dolphin have always been good to deal with in the past, everything from customer support to taking suggestions. Indeed, both my brother and I got to be fairly well known at Dolphin. We had a good relationship with them, for example
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I would expect such behavior from companies like Freedom Scientific, not Dolphin. Although I've never used Supernova, I think it's stupid that they're now having the attitude that IBM had regarding the IBM PC and printer compatibility ("If you don't use a
Supernova disappointments
e So, as people might gather, I'm seriously trying out Nvda, possibly with an idea of switching perminantly. The reasons for this are entirely due to firstly, inequities I noticed with Supernova, and secondly the attitude of Dolphin, (or at least that particularly
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