Hello Gordon please take a look again at NVDA very soon as it is obvious
it's a while since you played with it. First of all, NVDA supports many
Braille displays natively, as well as those supported by Brltty. Also
most of the NVDA keys, if set to the laptop layout, involves use of the
caps lock key. If you want further help please feel free to ask. Thanks!
On 04/06/2012 11:45, Gordon Smith wrote:
I sincerely hope that Freedom, GW and the rest have seen what they're doing
with NVDA and are suitably worried. Maybe it'll convince them they need to
lower their extortionate prices. If not, I hope that NVDA, along with, of
course, Apple, eventually put them all out of business.
I confess that I haven't really played with nVDA all that much yet, I'm still
walking that long and difficult road to recovery. But I'm starting to regain
my old enthusiasm for this sort of thing, slowly but surely. My problem at the
moment with NVDA is finding all of the reading keys. My primary Windows
machine is a Samsung Notebook which has a Japanese style keyboard. It took me
a while to get used too, but now I am just about there. But the point is that
I haven't yet memorised all of the NVDA keys and I've forgotten most of the
Window-Eyes laptop layout. As I'm sure you'll be aware, control of mouse
functions is essential for some of the modern Windos software. For that reason
I've had problems with some newer applications.
My second major problem with NVDA is somewhat more difficult to resolve it
would seem. That being support for Braille displays. From what I've read,
NVDA doesn't natively support them at all, and you need to have another
application running, whose name I have forgotten. But even that would cause
problems for me I think if I need to go back to Window-Eyes for any reason. I
gather that it runs as a system service and, therefore, would be somewhat
difficult to terminate. That could cause a bit of a conflict with Window-Eyes,
even though WE relies on those rickety old dynamic link libraries, (DLL)
drivers.
Gordon
On 3 Jun 2012, at 17:11, chris hallsworth<[email protected]>
wrote:
Oh sorry Lynn forgot to post it. Yes very impressed indeed and as usual it's my
full time reader.
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