Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread dark
That is probably true Bryan, I've noticed that some people tend to assume every person using a screen reader will automatically use Jaws. I was for instance a trifle irritated when during one of my first experiments with muds, I wrote to the admins of Alterean to get things working, and t

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread Bryan Peterson
the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?) Interesting Tom

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread dark
Interesting Tom. I admit, i know very litle about window eyes at all, in fact I didn't even know it existed until about 3 years ago. i suspect this is for the same reason that many people in the Us do not know about Hal. I wasn't sure about window eyes and games, though as so much a

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, It is interesting you bring this topic up. As it happens I am a Window eyes user, have been so for a number of years, and haven't experienced any issues with having it running while playing a game like Q9 or Mysteries of the Ancients. The problem with the screen reader and the games l

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread dark
Fair enough Bryan, --- and good to here window eyes is so obliging, i must admit I've never even met anyone in this country who use window eyes, much less tried it myself, it's probably the one of the big three which i know least about. With hal, how necessary it is to turn the voice

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread Bryan Peterson
za? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:27 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?) Just as a vaguely informational point, with hal there

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread Hayden Presley
[mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Karl Belanger Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:22 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?) I have never had to turn either Window-Eyes or System Access off when playing almost any game. Yes

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread Karl Belanger
: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:28 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?) Just as a vaguely informational point, with hal there is never any need to

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread dark
er 29, 2009 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?) window-eyes doesn't need to be unloaded either but you actually don't need to even turn the speech off in that as it will just say the game name and not bother you with telling such obvias things

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-29 Thread peter Mahach
: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:27 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?) Just as a vaguely informational point, with hal there is never any need to actually shut the program down. The voice can be turned off with ctrl 0, and at

[Audyssey] Q9 and screen readers was: XP Gamer Woes (?)

2009-11-28 Thread dark
Just as a vaguely informational point, with hal there is never any need to actually shut the program down. The voice can be turned off with ctrl 0, and at that point all commands which do not directly interfere with hal's own commands are absolutely fine to use, --- in fact the only real reaso