RE: songr

Here is the page to download the song r portable edition: http://songr-portable.en.softonic.com/ Kind regards, MIchael Michael Micallef Officer in charge of ICT Accessibility Certification and ICT Training for Persons with a Visual Impairment Foundation for Information Technology

Re: history of window eyes

I finally remembered the DOS screen reader I used before WindowEyes. It was Provox, written by Chuck Hallenbach. Truthfully, Grandpa DOS often wishes he could go back to those good old days! Smile! I still have my version 7 copy and just maybe I will do back. Grant Metcalf A.K.A. Grandpa

Re: history of window eyes

Another one that some may remember a bit more than I do was Berkeley Systems OutSpoken. If I remember correctly Berkeley Systems was sold to the Alva people. I think it came out some time in 1994, so was written for 3.1, and after that, I don't think it was any further developed Anyway, I

Re: history of window eyes

Many of us still miss word perfect. On Tuesday, October 18, 2016, David Goldfield via Talk < talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote: > I'd like to add a few tidbits to this most fascinating thread. > > In addition to the Windows screen readers which were mentioned, > Synthavoice's Window Bridge came

Re: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

Was there a Settlement in this sute?Any Dollar amount made public? I sort of remember F/S filing a sute, but wasn't as observant as I am today. Grumpy Dave -- Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email

RE: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

I have been and am still disgusted with the lawsute that they filed against GW. That victory should have dented FS;s reputation -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+skyt=shaw...@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Butch Bussen via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 7:33 PM

Re: history of window eyes

I'd like to add a few tidbits to this most fascinating thread. In addition to the Windows screen readers which were mentioned, Synthavoice's Window Bridge came out sometime in 1992, if my memory is correct. While I have not used that screen reader, another one that many have forgotten is

RE: history of window eyes

The Eyes on Success had a show captioned The Evolution of Screen Readers! I suggest you visit their website and search for this show. It should be fun to listen to! Incidentally, I was a student at Indiana University Bloomington back in 1984 when Computer Aids Corporation was well-strung all

RE: Printing Envelopes

Barbara, like you, I have a Canon printer. It is a rather high-end one though used primarily at work. I don't have a printer at home, although I am in dire need of one that's portable enough to stick in a laptop bag since I am always running after myself ! And I want to stay away from inkjets,

Re: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

You really are clueless. Spite doesn't have a thing to do with it, logic does. I needed the keys from them to make it work, no where else to get them. I just love it when people comment on something they don't know anything about. BTW, been doing this stuff since 1983, so if there had been

Casper 10 and WE

Hi, Using: W10 64 bit anniversary and latest WE Currently using Casper 8.0 but thinking of upgrading to version 10 and wondering how accessible it is with the latest WE. Also, I am having difficulties making the system boot from a usb 3.0 external drive containing a copy of the C drive

Re: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

Had similar experiences dealing with fs on the low vision hardware side of customer service. They customer service not so much. On Monday, October 17, 2016, Nick Sarames via Talk < talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote: > I'm sure if you really wanted to, you'd've found other ways to get >

Re: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

I'm sure if you really wanted to, you'd've found other ways to get help. If spite is more important, then one really doesn't need assistance. On 10/17/2016 9:20 AM, Butch Bussen via Talk wrote: > My opinion only, but I won't be buying jaws or any of their products. I > don't recall what the

Just a Cortana curiocity

Does anyone know if it isn't possible to go back to focus on a search after choosing one of the options in Cortana? There are times when I would just like to choose more than one or more of them, but the box disappears, and I have to type in the same thing over again in order to explore or

Re: Talk Digest, Vol 614, Issue 1

ok On 10/17/16, via Talk wrote: > Send Talk mailing list submissions to > talk@lists.window-eyes.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > or, via email, send a

FW: Audible's "The Great Courses" series and Window-Eyes.

Hi all. Resending, as replies did not reach me. Appreciate comments from those who might know. With thanks. Vaughan. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+vaughan.dodd001=msd.govt...@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Vaughan Dodd via Talk Sent: Thursday, 13 October

RE: Firefox, Flash, and WE

In fact, John's right. I didn't uninstall Flash but simply disabled it. I get a message that I don't' have Flash support. Don, if you're still watching this thread, the web page John mentioned reports: Adobe Flash is required to listen to this station, but you don't appear to have it installed.

Office 7 and office 16

Hi, I am using the most current version of Window eyes and windows 10 anniversary edition and Office 2007. I have not had any problems with Office 07 or Window Eyes until the last two updates of Window Eyes. When I first went to Windows 10 in May I checked with the staff of Window

RE: history of window eyes

Yep, term talk was very cool indeed. Anyone remember transcend or the talking version of sensable speller? 73 Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks. On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Joseph Norton wrote: Sorry, not ProTalk. I meant to say TermTalk. Sorry for the confusion. -Original

RE: Firefox, Flash, and WE

Keith, oops, www.freefootballradio.com My mistake. earlier, Keith Wessel via Talk, wrote: Hm... When I go to freefootball.com, I get server not found. My DNS doesn't seem to know of that domain. Sorry, can't see what you're seeing. Keith -Original Message- From: john s

RE: history of window eyes

Sorry, not ProTalk. I meant to say TermTalk. Sorry for the confusion. -Original Message- From: Joseph Norton [mailto:joseph.nor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 3:09 PM To: 'Butch Bussen' ; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'

RE: history of window eyes

I bought ProTalk for my Apple IIe, and was very pleased with it. I did try ProTerm from Larry Skutchan (MicroTalk), but, it did not perform the way I wanted in certain situations. ProTalk, written by Doug Geofrey was what I stuck with. / Conversely, on the PC side, I used ASAP for DOS,

RE: Firefox, Flash, and WE

Hm... When I go to freefootball.com, I get server not found. My DNS doesn't seem to know of that domain. Sorry, can't see what you're seeing. Keith -Original Message- From: john s [mailto:jschw...@cox.net] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 12:27 PM To: Keith Wessel

Re: history of window eyes

I might add that Malcolm, who worked as a ranger at Yosemite near Fresno where I lived at the time, initially called his PC screenreader Vocal-Eyes and I was one of the beneficiaries. He had originally designed it for a fellow ranger at Yosemite who was only partially sighted. I still see

Re: history of window eyes

I got my first apple 2 e in 1983 and bought programs from Bill. I don't know the exact year, but it was about that time Doug started working part time for Bill. He was still in College as I recall. I know Doug was greatly involved in developing small talk which I think came out in 1985. 73

RE: history of window eyes

I still have my 1994 IBM computer running Windows 3.1 and, I think, Vocal-Eyes three point zero. Maudlin, eh? -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+fenderwal=sbcglobal@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Pamela Dominguez via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 11:34 AM

RE: history of window eyes

Yeas, I also had ScreenTalk before Window Eyes and I believe I used an Echo synthesizer with it. Best Regards, Bob Hicks -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+bob=seeinghandassociation@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Tom Fairhurst via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17,

RE: Firefox, Flash, and WE

Keith, I went to freefootball.com, then, ncaa teams, then big ten conference, then Iowa. Then, I chose the radio station, kcsi. earlier, Keith Wessel via Talk, wrote: Interesting. I simply disabled the plugin, and I suppose that might mean that Flash content is simply being ignored. I'm also

Re: Firefox version: how can you find out?

Try tabbing. That is how I found out. earlier, via Talk, wrote: Hey, folks. After reading the discussion about Adobe flash, I went into the Firefox Help> About dialog, but Window-Eyes will not read anything in the static box. I doubt I'm the only person with this problem, so how does one

Re: history of window eyes

I believe Window-eyes 1.0 came out around September of 1995, give or take a few months. Beyond that, I'm not qualified to go into the history of the product. As someone already indicated, the DOS screen reader which came before it was Vocal-eyes. I remember using 1.1 of that program in 1991.

Re: Firefox version: how can you find out?

do alt t then down arrow to add ons and enter now shift tab until you get the list of things you can look at look for apperence and then tab you will get the version of fire fox you are running. On 10/17/2016 9:41 AM, via Talk wrote: Hey, folks. After reading the discussion about Adobe

Re: history of window eyes

I can tell you that before window eyes came out, the dos screenreader used to be called vocal eyes. Pam. -Original Message- From: Drew Clark via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 3:56 AM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: history of window eyes hi, i am interested to find

RE: Unable to Save Default Set File/Window-eyes for Office/9.5.3

Hi, Unless it was a bad install, you can turn off apps, reboot and then nuke the GW Micro folder in %appdata% Window-eyes will rebuild the profile after you reload Window-eyes again. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On

Re: Unable to Save Default Set File/Window-eyes for Office/9.5.3

I solved my problem. After going into the factory settings dialog, I saw that none of the default sets were installed and, even after trying to install them, it kept saying na for the version number. I figured it was just easier to uninstall and reinstall Window-eyes, rather than trying to do

RE: Firefox version: how can you find out?

I'm able to tab through the Help -> About window and have it speak the version. You can also go to Help -> Health report. The version is displayed in there. It's probably a good idea to enable Firefox automatic updating if you ahven't. That's not a piece of software that is good to let fall too

RE: Unable to Save Default Set File/Window-eyes for Office/9.5.3

Hey. Disragard my reply. My bad. Thought you couldn't save the syhth. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+fenderwal=sbcglobal@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of David Goldfield via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 9:36 AM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject:

RE: Unable to Save Default Set File/Window-eyes for Office/9.5.3

Hi, Dave. Did you press the activate button in the synthesizers dialog? Lou N. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+fenderwal=sbcglobal@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of David Goldfield via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 9:36 AM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com

Firefox version: how can you find out?

Hey, folks. After reading the discussion about Adobe flash, I went into the Firefox Help> About dialog, but Window-Eyes will not read anything in the static box. I doubt I'm the only person with this problem, so how does one find out what version of FF is installed? Lou N.

Unable to Save Default Set File/Window-eyes for Office/9.5.3

Hi. For quite some time, I've installed and used several versions of Windoweyes for Office. As I was a version behind I decided to install 9.5.3 on my Windows 10 Anniversary Update PC. I downloaded and installed it and the installation seemed to go without any issues. However, when I ran

RE: Firefox, Flash, and WE

Interesting. I simply disabled the plugin, and I suppose that might mean that Flash content is simply being ignored. I'm also on the latest stable Firefox release. Would you be willing to share a URL that, when you visit it, is prompting you that Flash is required? Keith -Original

Re: history of window eyes

Hi, Drew. While I believe we should not spend much more time on list for this, I bought my first home computer frojm Computer Aids Corporation in 1989. It had ScreenTalk installed on it. I have used Vocal-Eyes and Window-Eyes ever since. -Original Message- From: Drew Clark via Talk

Re: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

if window eyes can run on 1 gb of ram and 1 ghz processor and does not eat up a lot of processes maybe i will use it during my first time finding this screen reader. it was during window eyes 7.0. and, now since i have faster pc, i am using it! yay! On 10/17/2016 9:20 PM, Butch Bussen via

Re: Contacting VFO Regarding Window-Eyes

My opinion only, but I won't be buying jaws or any of their products. I don't recall what the thing was even called, but was a portable device put out by freedom that did everything, e-mail, gps and so forth. The v a bought a friend of mine a new one so he gave me his old unit, about three

Re: songr

can you give a web address where i can get the portible edition of songr? timelor...@comcast.net There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See William and Leader Dog Lynerd -Original Message- From: Micallef Michael at FITA via Talk Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 01:34 To: Tom

RE: dectalk with nvda

Unfortunately that sapi 5 DECTALK that comes from over the net is of not so good quality like DECtalk32 or dectalk original synthesizers. I tried to make it sound like dectalk access32 but without success. Thanks, Michael Micallef Officer in charge of ICT Accessibility Certification and

RE: Firefox, Flash, and WE

I uninstalled flash from programs and features in win 7 but I still get the message that adobe flash is required. I'm running firefox 49. earlier, Keith Wessel via Talk, wrote: Disabling is sufficient, but if you really want to get rid of Flash in Firefox, you have to completely uninstall

Re: history of window eyes

I don't have time to write a very long message, but here's a little of the story. In the early 1980s Bill Grimm formed a company, Computer Aids Corporation, to create software for the Apple II family of computers. They teamed up with Malcolm Holser to create a screen reader for DOS called

Re: sound forge tutorial

go to visions for the blind call 646-486- ask for ruth or william they are in charge of the computer lab where they teach every thing  there and its free too. On Monday, October 17, 2016 3:07 AM, Drew Clark via Talk wrote: Hi, does anyone know where

history of window eyes

hi, i am interested to find out the history of window eyes, who created it and how it was started. is there any webpage/audio podcast that interviews the g and the w behind gw micro? thanks -- Sent using window eyes. ___ Any views or opinions

sound forge tutorial

Hi, does anyone know where can i find tutorial that teaches window eyes users to use sound forge? it's ok if the tutorial is out of date. -- Sent using window eyes. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author

dectalk with nvda

Hi, are you long time wineyes user? wow! impressive! i am learning window eyes. so did you purchase window eyes from it's first release to current without missing even one release? ok back to business, you can install the dectalk sapi 5 and use with nvda or any other sapi compatible.