Well, as I said, I'm not fully knowlegeable on the OS, and there might be
things I'm just not getting. Also, I'm using JFW 11, and I can neither
afford nor am I willing to go for an upgrade.
My son's computer, which has Windows 7, uses NVDA.
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Ok, reminds that it was either jaws 11, or jaws 12 that specifically needed
to be used with windows7 to make it really viable as well - biggest issue
there was that jaws would keep on seeing that you'd changed hardware, when
you hadn't...smile
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
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Hi. This is only one reason why I switch to NVDA, because of the fact that I
could not upgrade from my old version of Jaws. It was simply getting worse and
worse, with me on one version, and every six months to 12 months, a new version
comes out with new abilities, and guess what! I can't use
Hi Dallas,
Not only that but the way Jaws does things aren't exactly the best way
to handle them. Take for instance the way it handles keyboard
commands. Jaws sets a low-level keyboard hook that intercepts keyboard
events, taking it away from the application and the operating system,
filters them
Yes, exactly. Not the most efficient way to do things, and like you said,
probably one of the reasons why jaws does not access Windows 7 or windows 8 as
fast as it should.
But unfortunately, like Microsoft's own business model, jaws has not been
stripped down and redesigned for too long.
well till I started using nvda I realised how much others dolphin,
gwmicro jaws and the rest had relied on mostly their stuff and not
what was there.
Bar a few external libraries and modules nvda gets most of its info
from everything thats installed in the os.
Ok a few things that need
