to answer your question FS is still dealer based and they do not offer any payment plans on anything so I recall. Sorry to be the barer of bad news. I hope someone can be the bareer of good news. lol! On Jan 2, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> Hi all > > This is my first E-Mail to anybody for a very long time, so I must say it's > good to be back. > > In the hope of securing a teaching position in the not too distant future, it > looks like I'm going to have to start learning the ins and outs of Jaws for > Windows, as well as refreshing myself in the use of Microsoft Office > application, especially Word. > > Lynne downloaded JFW13 a few days ago, along with NVDA211, but we haven't had > the opportunity to try them out as yet. So, to my questions. > > 1. What's the latest version of Microsoft Office and where do we stand, > please, in terms of accessibility with the aforementioned screen-readers, > plus GW Micro's Window-Eyes? > > 2. Does Freedom Scientific sell online to overseas customers, or is it one of > those dealership rackets still, as it was when I got my fingers severely > burned with them in 2000 when they re-sold my serial number to another > customer and also my SMA, and they flatly refused to honour it with a > different S/N and SMA. > > 3. On the assumption that Freedom Scientific does indeed sell > internationally online, do they operate any kind of monthly "Lease To Own" > programme, similar to that which GW Micro offers? Currently my outright > budget wouldn't stretch to the £1200 USD which Freedom seem to be asking for > JFW Professional and that doesn't even cover remote access; shocking. > > Having spent most of the morning playing around with various aspects of > Windows 7 Ultimate Sp1 and Window-Eyes, I'm sorry to have to say that I'm > distinctly unimpressed with GW's latest offering. Having become somewhat > accustomed to the lack of a "Browse Mode", I find it irksome to say the least > when I have to keep continually pressing enter on edit boxes etc. before I > can insert or modify data, and then having to re-enable browse mode to find > out what a consecutive edit box's data should be. Pressing tab when outside > of browse mode now yields only "Edit", and not the content descriptor field > any longer. > > I also find Window-Eyes 7.5.2 unacceptably slow at times when it's loading > web content. Indeed, sometimes I fid that it doesn't even finish loading at > all, and I have to turn browse ode of and back on again to make it work. > Actually that's a bug which has been around forever, but it's much much worse > now. Many times I also see problems after entering my password in the log-on > window when loading Window-Eyes. Windows itself contuse down the log-on > chain at normal speed but the Window-Eyes task often freezes or responds very > very slowly. Thus, it takes often up to five minutes to gain access to the > desktop and even then I sometimes get "Not Responding" notices regarding the > Window-Eyes main executable, or one of the dynamic libraries upon which it > relies. > > I'm also finding GW Micro's so-called "Industry-Leading" technical support > extremely poor. Often, they don't even respond at all and when they do, they > don't usually provide adequate responses to questions. > > I have seen opinion expressed in a couple of places on the Internet that > Window-Eyes's overall quality has been severely depleted since the so-called > innovative and, again, industry-standard scripting mechanism was incorporated > into the application. I share that opinion! Were it not for the fact that > Window-Eyes 7.0 is not compatible with 64-bit operating systems, and were it > not for the fact that it won't run under Windows 7 at all, I would seriously > consider reverting. As it is. I'm going to have to really turn full circle, > have a serous look at JFW and NVDA, and perhaps also System Access as well. > > I am aware that there has been some discussion pertaining to screen-readers > on list recently, sponsored initially as I understand it by my wife. I have > read through the ensuing thread and found some of the comment very > interesting. However, the angle I am hoping to discuss is more a practical > one, rather than a financial debate. I'm going to try JFW because for one > thing, I just cannot figure out how you configure NVDA for Braille output; > which I need. > > Any comment welcome, and did I say it earlier? It's great to be back, > finally. > > Gordon > > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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