Hey folks
Well, I've had Window-eyes 9.1 on my machine for about a day now so I
figured I'd report my findings, to see if anyone else has had similar
experiences. For the most part, things are extremely stable, much more
so than 9.0 was. For whatever reason right in the middle of surfing a
web page or reading an email in Thunderbird, 9.0 would just go
completely silent. no error message was displayed on the screen, it
just closed, as if the program was never opened to begin with. Pressing
the usual hot key alt control w always brought it back so that was a
good thing, but i'm very happy that problem is gone. I noticed it once
or twice when I first installed 9.1 but after rebooting the machine that
little problem appears to have solved itself.
Also, in internet explorer 11, window-eyes still takes a few seconds to
load a web page. it's as ifWindow-eyes hangs for about 15 to 30 seconds,
but then if I'm patient enough, it usually comes back. I did have a few
issues where the 9.0 version would never recover from this issue and the
machine would completely lock up, forcing a reboot to get things on
track. Now, it does take a few seconds longer to start speaking a web
page, but it's a whole hell of a lot more reliable, so lots of
improovements there! it's also nice to be able to just copy plane text
to the clipboard. i would really like to have the traditional copy and
paste method back, but like i said before that probably isn't possible
with the way Window-eyes rhendors a web page now. If it is possible to
allow us to use the traditional method of copying and pasting with the
arrow keys instead of the f8 selection method, let me encourage the AI
Squared guys to offer that as an option in the WE control panel, maybe
something in the browse mode section somewhere?
As far as Thunderbird goes,I'm having pretty good results, but
occasionally, i'm not able to read an email as I type it. I like to read
back what I wrote to hear what it sounds like, just to confirm what I've
said to avoid any spelling errors and such. In 9.0 and 9.1 when
composing a new message or replying to one, Window-eyes will say about
blank when using the arrow keys after I've written something, so I know
text is there, but for whatever interesting reason, Window-eyes isn't
able to read it. The interesting part is there are times i can read it
back and other times I can't and there doesn't seem to be any real rhyme
or reason to it, which is really frustrating as I'd like to give you
guys some information so you can find a fix. Sometimes if I close
thunderbird and re-open it the problem will fix itself, but i never know
how many times I have to close and re-open it. I am using the TB
Enhance app, so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Firefox does seem to be a bit faster when loading web pages, but still
seems like it's a tad slower than internet explorer is. I tried google
Chrome yesterday, and was impressed with how accessible it is now! I
haven't quite found enough things I like it to make it my default web
browser, but it sure is nice to know I can have 3 web browsers to choose
from now. So, overall i'm pretty happy with 9.1.
Thanks guys!
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