Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
I don't know of anything that sounds as good as eloquence that is understandable at very high speeds.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174625#p174625
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Re: Welcome back Audiogames.net
Thanks for fixing it. This url is much more pleasant on the fingers than audiogamesforums.captivatingsound.com URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175162#p175162
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Re: How do you break that addiction?
You can ask Dentin to freeze your character for some period of time. He has done that for people in the past during exam weeks.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175783#p175783
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the VIM text editor with screen readers
HiDoes anyone have experience on how I can use the VIM text editor with screen readers on windows? I'll require it for university coursework. There are some weird issues that I am not sure I can work around, such as the focus for some reason being stuck on
Re: accessible password collectors?
I probably wouldn't use keychain, as the documents apple released about their security architecture show that the keychain encryption is not secure, and is probably viewable by the NSA.KeePass is what I use, and even though it requires much setup, I like that
Re: the VIM text editor with screen readers
I was mistaken about having to use the windows version of VIM; I'll soon need to use VIM on my school's linux server by using SSH. However, i'm having trouble with moving about and positioning my cursor when in the document itself. E.G when pressi
Re: the VIM text editor with screen readers
I renamed PuTTY.exe, which was causing it to not be recognized as a terminal window. Unfortunately, I'm seeing much of the same issues when attempting to use vim with NVDA + PuTTY as I saw with Secure CRT. I'm now downloading vinux and installing
Re: the VIM text editor with screen readers
Ur, this is really odd. I'm not sure why, but I used the vimtutor command on an impulse to look at the tutorial. I was able to edit that tutorial file, following the instructions - it was really usable. I'm not sure why editing this vimtutor file
Re: the VIM text editor with screen readers
Update: after following the vimtutor tutorial and setting up default settings in the process, all the weird problems I was having with screen reader usage over SSH suddenly disappeared. I wonder which of the settings caused me so much grief.
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Re: accessible download manager
I'm not sure how much download managers would help you with ads. For that, you probably want something like AddBlock+ for firefox. I second the above recommendation for internet downloada manager; its the fastest download manager I've used, and is very access
Re: Accessible NAS?
Hi,Sorry to revive this topic, but I thought that it would be better to do so to preserve the context and aid searching.I've been thinking of getting a NAS, and was considering the DiskStation DS918+. This seems like a workable solution, based on this this thread on Syno
Re: Synology DSM: tips & tricks?
To long-time users of Synology products, how difficult is it to get around various parts of the DSM UI? I'm considering the DS918+ and although there's an online demo which lets you try the GUI, it would be helpful to hear from an existing user. E.g, are all
Re: What IOS podcast downloader do you use?
Overcast does read part of the summary when swiping through episodes, and you can view the complete summary too.
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Re: The best Twitter client for iOS?
Another vote for Twitterific
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Re: Coffee recommendations
Echoing @15, I'm also looking out for an espresso machine that is accessible. Besides the usual no nos (touchscreens / non-tactile controls etc), I'm still trying to find out if the process of tamping, using a steam wand etc are accessible.
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Accessible Coffee Preparation
Hi,I'm currently using a french press to make coffee and wanted to try out some other preparation methods such as aeropress, pourover, espresso etc.Does anyone have any experiences with any of these?After some initial research, it seems that the way that you po
Re: Accessible Coffee Preparation
Just got a V60 and a set of hopefully accessible scales, keeping my fingers crossed now. Need to wait for them to arrive to try it.
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Re: Accessible Coffee Preparation
@8 wow do you have an espresso machine? If so could you share your experience about using it, and do you froth your own milk? One of my main goals of doing all this is to eventually be able to make cafe quality espressos, lattes and mochas.@4 truer words ha
Re: Where to go next with my music collection
If you have a machine that runs 24/7, you could install Airsonic on it and connect to it from your desktop browser or with play:Sub on the iPhone. It also works as a personal audible - leeting you stream audiobooks off it and only download when
Re: Accessible Coffee Preparation
I tried making a cold brew once but it didn't go well. A lot of the flavour notes that I liked to taste was gone from the cold brew because it was extracted for too long.
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Re: Accessible Coffee Preparation
@18Which model are you using? Also, what are the features of the machine that I should be looking for from an accessibility perspective?I basically wanted to know in general whether the steps to preparing an espresso are accessible or not. Based on some res
Re: Lenovo ThinkPads
I recommend the T series without reservation. I baught a T480 2 years ago in Apr 2018 and have not had a single problem with it since. Its well constructed, has an amazing keyboard and has none of that disgusting audio driver crapware that you'd find on Dell machines.I
Re: Accessible Coffee Preparation
I just got a V60 brewer. Unfortunately it is pretty inaccessible because it requiring pouring hot water in a circular pattern for even extraction and also requires making sure that you aren't pouring too fast or slow.I suspect its possible to get better at
Re: Recommended 2020 Laptops?
I highly recommend either the T series ThinkPads from Lenovo. The reversed control and function keys can be changed in the bios. If you're willing to spend a bit more, I cannot recommend the X1 Carbon highly enough.You may want to wait a few months though becau
Re: Any data hoarders on here?
@21 do you have any strategies for using Synology's DSM interface? I have a minature version of your setup with a DS918+ with 4 x 4tb IronWolf drives in SHR 2 (raid 6) for 2-drive redundancy so that leaves me with 8TB of useable capacity.I find it extremely ag
Re: MacBook frustrations
@26: I'd be interested to find out how you can use Emacspeak on Windows. Particularly, how does it output speech? Through Sapi5?
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Re: MacBook frustrations
@24 Could you elaborate on why you find Emacspeak better than any other screen reader, even those on windows? It seems like a huge amount of trouble to learn how Emacspeak works, + the additional overhead of trying to get it working on windows with Eloquence (assumi
Re: preserving the BMMV TV shows
Does anyone have Iron Man and Avengers: endgame? These are the missing ones from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as far as I know, and I'd like to try getting up to speed in preparation for Endgame.
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Re: Mechanical Keyboard Recommendation, The Keychron K2
I can second this recommendation, haven gotten one a few months ago. I haven't actually used it in bluetooth mode.Something to note though is the lack of a dedicate applications key, which is obviously annoying. I solved it by remappin
Re: Mechanical Keyboard Recommendation, The Keychron K2
@6: wow, i didn't know that the K2 had that as the applications key, I haven't figured out yet how to use the switches on the left since I've so far only used it plugged in via USB.
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Re: Instapot experiences?
@4 I'm wondering how accessible the nova you got is?I've been hoping that they would make the smart wi-fi model available with 220v power but they don't seem to have any plans to, given that its been 3 years since the model was released. I know that model allows yo
Re: Windows Imaging Backup Tools: Questions and asking for recommendations
Terabyte's backup and restore suite is awesome.
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Re: Good Windows image-based backup?
I'd love to be able to use Image for Windows too. Unfortunately, I've tried several times to write into support about how the "accessibility mode" isn't working as it should. In particular, it doesn't seem to correctly indicate whether checkboxes are che
Re: Good Windows image-based backup?
NVDA, as well as trying it with narrator.
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Re: Good Windows image-based backup?
NVDA, as well as trying it with narrator.I'm on windows 10 2004 64-bit, as well as using the x64 version of the program.
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Re: Good Windows image-based backup?
@14 are you using jaws? That could explain why I've never gotten it to work, as that's the only screen reader that I have not tried.
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accessible file synchronization software?
Hi,I've been trying to look for software which can do realtime sync between folders. Unfortunately, most of them aren't accessible. Does anyone have any suggestions?The use case is to have 2 copies of the data locally and on a remote server, hence w
Re: Need an application which can convert Scanned files in to MS word/TXT
ABBYY FineReader is a superb application for this, but you will need to pay for it.
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Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
This is a really good piece that does a better job than me trying to articulate my thoughts on jaws 16's release.http://joeorozco.com/blog_my_complaint_ … scientificThough I've not contacted technical support before and haven't
Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
The rationale is to charge business users or people who install jaws in schools more, because they should be able to pay more.
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Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
There are scripts that I've been using from the latex access project that convert latex into spoken speech. I find that a lot more valuable, because it would be more useful than Jaw's MathML support - MathMl is meant for readin
Re: syncthing, anyone?
Ur, what do you mean regular stuff? There should be a very long string that shows you your node id in the dialog.
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Re: syncthing, anyone?
Ur, what do you mean regular stuff? There should be a very long string that shows you your node id in the dialog.You may also find SyncthingTray useful - it lets you operate it from a system tray icon, and configure start on boot.https://github.com/iss0/SyncthingTrayI
Re: accessible bitcoin client on windows
I thought that stuff with qt-based guis were for the most part completely unusable (such as calibre, but it has an awesome command-line interface so its ok).
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=194121#p194121
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Re: a proposal, jaws lite shareware by freedom scientific
Lol, its amuzing that the page for the jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated thread on this forum is number 8 on google when doing a search for jaws 16.I wonder if anyone in freedomscientific will see this as a
Re: Persistent PC nonsense
Try the Free edition of AVG Antivirus if you don't want to pay for an antivirus product. Or, you could try the nortan power eraser, which is a standalone scanner that can be used in conjunction with other antiviruse products.
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Re: Persistent PC nonsense
I'd personally go with the nuclear approach of reformatting your hard drive, backing up anything important. Your system is already compromised, and reformatting lets you start off fresh.
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Re: Fan fic downloader and an interesting idea.
Is there a homepage for this programme?
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Re: Guess What! - Window-Eyes 9.0 Beta Discussion Thread
About time. Its amuzing how much they try to promote their enhanced web support, because its basically trying to play catch-up with other screen readers at this point.
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Re: Guess What! - Window-Eyes 9.0 Beta Discussion Thread
Well, how great this "intelligent web support" actually is in practice remains to be seen.
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Re: bios update: to update or not to update
agreed, best not to fix what ain't broken
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The limitations of audio interfaces
While reflecting on the state of audiogames, and how it differs from traditional games, a big factor is the limitations imposed by the use of an audio interface. While a sighted person is able to comprehend the macro aspects such as layout, artistic style
The limitations of audio interfaces
While reflecting on the state of audiogames, and how it differs from traditional games, a big factor is the limitations imposed by the use of an audio interface. While a sighted person is able to comprehend the macro aspects such as layout, artistic style
Re: Anyone Using the Latest Skype Scripts?
latest version of Skype v6.22 and the latest scripts work perfectly for me.. Using jaws 16.
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Re: Leasey has been released! Every JAWS user should have Leasey!
Meh, I might get flamed for saying so, but it feels like a scam. Its basically a repackaging of things that already exist into something new to get people to buy it. Beginner mode/advanced mode functions? leasi connect? All t
Re: Leasey has been released! Every JAWS user should have Leasey!
In my opinion, the reason why I wouldn't recommend this for instructional purpose is that if you're so used to leasy's custom hotkeys for doing stuff and do not try to learn the actual keystrokes for commands, you'd be left f
Re: Leasey has been released! Every JAWS user should have Leasey!
The reason why I wouldn't recommend this for instructional purpose is that if you're so used to leasy's custom hotkeys for doing stuff and do not try to learn the actual keystrokes for commands, you'd be left floundering when
Re: Leasey has been released! Every JAWS user should have Leasey!
Well said, Camlorn. I always thought it was kind of stupid that freedomscientific for instance was baking in research it into jaws; it is far from an essential feature.
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Re: Leasey has been released! Every JAWS user should have Leasey!
Well said, Camlorn.
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himachi alternative
Does anyone know of an accessible, free and easy to use himachi alternative? I've tried pretty hard to find one, but the ones that I've found require complex setup.
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Re: himachi alternative
Its for gaming purposes. The reason why i'm using himachi is to avoid having to do port forwarding.
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Re: math in university
@camlorn: what's this mathtype accessibility thing that NVDA already supports? I didn't know that NVDA worked with math type.I'm probably a little late to this thread, but I found learning latex fairly easy. I used InftyReader to perform OCR on math documents, saving
Re: math in university
It really depends on the source materials. If you can get a true pdf ebook version of your course text for instance, then that is when it works really well. I had to rely on it entirely to get my math tutorial questions in an accessible form. Unfortunately, InftyReade
accessible logical circuit simulators
I'm taking a course, with logic circuits being a substantial portion of it. The software used for designing and simulating digital logic circuits, Logisim, is unfortunately inaccessible. Does anyone know of an accessible logic simulator?
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accessible logical circuit simulators
I'm taking a course on computer organization at uni, with logic circuits being a substantial portion of it. The software used for designing and simulating digital logic circuits, Logisim, is unfortunately inaccessible. Does anyone know of an accessible
Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
I've been experiencing some stupid bugs and issues with InftyReader, the most concerning for me is the poor quality of recognition results of anything more complex than 1-column matrices. This sucks because i'm taking an introductory course in li
Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Braille wouldn't be a feasible solution in my case. I've written to the InftyReader developers to see if they can improve recognition of matrices.
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Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
As to why braille isn't feasible for me, its expensive (financially and time-wise) to obtain material in braille, so much so that I've switched to using latex for my math needs wherever possible. I took a closer look at the book and it seems
Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
I don't think that I'll have to do math at a higher enough level to require braille.I was looking for something to alleviate the pain of reading tonnes of formatting spam in a latex source document for tests and such, and I found a programme
Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Converting in.tex to html:pandoc -f latex -R -s -m -t html -o "out.html" "in.tex"pauseThere are other possible switches you can use for math rendering, one of which renders the math in graphics but with accessible latex captions.I do see your
Re: Why do screen readers struggle to read math?
Converting in.tex to html:pandoc -f latex -R -s -m -t html -o "out.html" "in.tex"pauseThere are other possible switches you can use for math rendering, one of which renders the math in graphics but with accessible latex captions.I do see your
Re: greedom science fiction, what did I just agree to?
Yup; it is clear that freedomscientific is willing to put accessibility of software and sites in general a very far distant second to profit. I'm just thankful that we have NVDA, and eagerly await the day where I can ditch jaws for good
Re: best speech synthesizer
Eloquence always if I can. I've found nothing that can rival its responsiveness and voice quality, and it sounds better than espeak.
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Re: Which SSH client should I be using?
I've had great success with secure crt in combination with the jaws scripts at http://chrisnestrud.com/projects/jfw/scrtIts unfortunate that secure crt itself is pretty expensive, and that all of the free ssh clients out there i've tried all don't wor
Re: suggestions for new powerful laptop
Look at laptop reviews from technology sites. One that i've heard very good things about is the XPS 13. Its light, but has outstanding performance and battery life.
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Re: suggestions for new powerful laptop
@smoothgunner: oops lol. I somehow missed the fact that dell laptops weren't being considered.
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Re: suggestions for new powerful laptop
Since this is the audiogames.net forum afterall, I didn't consider that it would be used for mainstream games.
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Re: A Modern Day Comparison of JAWS and NVDA
Its a real pain to get jaws to work properly with audiogames because of its intrusive keyboard hooks.I do like NVDA a lot more than jaws especially when dealing with large amount of content like a 1000 page book in a single html file. Jaws takes
Re: BitTorrent Sync anyone?
Bit torrent sync's new interface in v1.4 isn't accessible. I hope they will fix it, but they have been pretty unresponsive when it comes to requests for accessibility fixes (e.g in utorrent).I would consider an alternative like SyncThing, which is in addition to
jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
The latest jaws 16 beta has just been released: http://www2.freedomscientific.com/downl … c-beta.aspI've been seeing this trend for a while now, but I think that this version just perfectly illustrates the death of screen reader in
Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated
That is word 2013 performance, nothing mentioned about word 2010. I really hate the lag on massive word documents, especially when NVDA does just fine. @john: the language profiles thing basically boils down to being able to se
Re: The Best Means of Editing Config Files via SSH on Windows?
I as struggling with this problem for a long time, as I had to programme with vim over SSH for school. The best solution that I found was using Jaws, Secure CRT and the Secure CRT scripts for jaws at http://chrisnestrud.com/proj
Re: The Best Means of Editing Config Files via SSH on Windows?
I was struggling with this problem for a long time, as I had to programme with vim over SSH for school. The best solution that I found was using Jaws, Secure CRT and the Secure CRT scripts for jaws at http://chrisnestrud.com/pro
Re: The Best Means of Editing Config Files via SSH on Windows?
@Aminiel: network lag is an issue. The scripts along with secure crt does enable the cursor to track properly.
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Re: does processor matter much?
Highly doubtful for audiogames. Its an entirely different matter though for day-to-day use; i'd recommend getting an I5 at least.
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SyncDriver - an accessible and free OneDrive client
I was trying to get OneDrive working on windows 8.1, but the annoying metro app on the win8.1 version forces you to change your pc's sign in from that of my local account to my Microsoft account. The Onedrive for desktop app also doesn't w
wireless earphone recommendations?
I'm getting irritated with how often I burn through headphones (once about every 2-3 months) because the wires inside get damaged over time, causing one side to not play any audio. Rather than replacing them, I'm looking for recommendations on wireless ear
wireless earphone recommendations?
I'm getting irritated with how often I burn through headphones (once about every 2-3 months) because the wires inside get damaged over time, causing one side to not play any audio. Rather than replacing them, I'm looking for recommendations on wireless ear
Re: wireless earphone recommendations?
Headphones with detachable chords are definitely an option i'm considering. Banishing tangled wires is a pretty compelling reason to go wireless though, but screen reader lag has always been an issue for all the ones I've tried.
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Re: SyncDriver - an accessible and free OneDrive client
You can use the official OneDrive app with windows 7.
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Re: SyncDriver - an accessible and free OneDrive client
Just google it...
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awful accessibility-breaking lollipop update
I have a galaxy S5 and to my eternal regret, decided to update to lollipop when offered. Big mistake. I can't seem to type properly now; after pressing the first letter that is auto-capitalized, talkback doesn't read any subsequent letters on th
awful accessibility-breaking lollipop update
I have a galaxy S5 and to my eternal regret, decided to update to lollipop when offered. Big mistake. I can't seem to type properly now; after pressing the first letter that is auto-capitalized, talkback doesn't read any subsequent letters on th
Re: awful accessibility-breaking lollipop update
Hm, I am on lollipop now, not kit kat. The process of downgrading probably isn't that simple though I think, as I'll have to get the right firmware to use. I'll give the keyboard a try and hope it works out for me.
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Re: awful accessibility-breaking lollipop update
Ugh the problem seems to persist regardless of what keyboard was used. Ideas? It seems that my only option is to downgrade.
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Re: awful accessibility-breaking lollipop update
I figured it out, there's nothing wrong with the talkback or keyboard applications itself. Its a stupid bug in the tts framework that causes it to cut off very short sounds generated by tts. I experienced this with both eloquence and google's
Re: Composite Rational Functions
Do you want the function f(g(x))?
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Re: Composite Rational Functions
@CAE_Jones is right. A function takes an input and produces some output. f(g(x)) means "put the result of the function g(x) as the input into function f"
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Re: Ebook reader needed
I highly recommend calibre. Its gui is totally unuseable with screen readers, but if you're willing to learn your way around the command line for the ebook-convert tool, it can convert to and form numerous formats including epub and mobi. It doesn't handle pdfs well
Re: Good accessible calculators that will work under Windows 10
Try the built-in calculator that shipped in windows from 7 and up. Jaws works a lot better than nvda with it i believe.
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