Hi Daniel.
There has been some demonstrations, all being contraversial, on Windows
8. The demonstration confirmed that in one of the early, unofficial
builds Narrator became pretty much like VoiceOver. You can navigate the
operating system. It has more key commands thant it ever did since the
introduction in Windows 2000. And so on. So yes Narrator while will not
be a fully fledged screen reader it will be much improved and may be
regarded as a screen reader for those who don't want to use NVDA or
won't/can't a commercial product. Please note this is speculation only.
My prediction is the Narrator in the beta will be a lot better than it
was on the unofficial build. Talking of which, rumours have it the beta
will be out either at the end of this year or the beginning of next,
kind of like when Windows 7 came out in beta.
Hope this helps.
Chat soon.
On 10/09/2011 14:25, Daniel McGee wrote:
Hi all, Daniel hear. On another list Jaws-UK, I heard talk about in
windows 8 microsoft building in a screenreader into there opparating system. Of
course this is only a rumor and since I didn't want to ask about it on that
list as it is not relevant I thought it would be fine to ask about it on this
list since it is technolagy related. Of course bearing in mind it only what I
heard so I don't know if it is true or faulce so I'd like to hear everyone's
thoughts. Also as a side note to windows 8, I was just wondering is it in beta
now that's to say can people test it if they so desire? I ask this because a
few weeks ago I was going to buy windows 7 home premium me still being on
Windows Vista and after going to PC World and talking to an assistance there
asking about what's the difference between the upgrade disc or the full version
of windows 7 he mentioned windows 8 being in Beta which resulted to me deciding
to hang on until that comes out to the public. So in short
wha
t's happening on the windows 8 front?
Hope to hear from you techie infusieasts soon!
Thanks
Daniel
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