Redrawing the Screen Programs sometimes draw new text on top of old text. Visually, this hides the old text. Window-Eyes sometimes is able to see parts of both the old and new text and can result in confusing feedback when reviewing the screen. To minimize these occurrences, Window-Eyes itself redraws portions of the screen when it detects these kinds of changes. Use the Redraw hot key, accessed with Insert-Backslash, any time Window-Eyes is either not reading text you know should be displayed or it is reading text in some strange order.
Occasionally, automatic screen redrawing by Window-Eyes can be visible and can actually interfere with a program's screen activity. This option is on by default, but you can prevent automatic redraws by going to the Window-Eyes control panel, selecting the General/Other settings group, and Tabbing to the "Allow Auto Redraw" setting. This option is automatically saved when you change it, so you need not worry about doing so yourself. The Redraw hot key not only synchronizes the contents of the screen with the Window-Eyes off-screen model, but it also re-initializes your speech synthesizer. As far back as I can remember, this has been in the manual. -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 4:28 AM To: 'clark drew'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'; 'Jim Ruby' Subject: RE: WE 9 strangeness Hi Clark: WindowEyes was indeed, as they said the most stable screen reader out there perhaps a decade ago. There have been quantum changes in how accessibility has to be handled by screen readers over the past 5 or so years and We has been slipping in stability over that timeframe. It is possible they will get back to that status but there are major technical and legacy changes required. That said, they have some pretty good programmers as a base to build on. I cant even try to explain the hurdles they face - they are way too massive and complicated. But take my word for it, they do care big time about their reputation and are doing everything they can to get back to it. Whether they will be able to do it given other problems outside their control is another story. But I doubt that so much as one person who has been around the WindowEyes Development Community doubts they are trying their best within the limits of real-worrld situations. All we can do is to point out things that are not working as well as we might want and hope they have the resources to get them addressed. You always have other product choices but I think allot of us have built a sort of product loyalty to WindowEyes even though we slam the product when we think it necessary. They have provided much client interaction over the years and many of us would like to see them succede and prosper. That said, it is what it is and there is much room for bellyaching lately. Rick USA _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/fenderwal%40sb cglobal.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
