I meant to reply to this, but somehow I managed to delete it. My apologies Martin.
However, I did read it and get your point. I have been trying persistently for two days solid to install that darn software, but now I've given up. Somebody on list suggested that when the installer stalled, Jaws is probably installed. Not a bit of it! Only the temporary copy which loads after Jaws's installer has finished messing around with your system creating System Restore points etc. They cannot be too confident in their own installation procedure if they have to include the creation of system restore points as part of the procedure. In any event, Jaws is a disaster and I'm not at all pleased. I guess I could try installing in a virtual machine. yes, I'll try that in a few moments and see how we go there. But to the point. Yes, Martin, how on earth Freedom Science Fiction expect a blind person to perform that installation procedure without the help of somebody with eyes or without having an accessibility tool already installed to guide them is totally beyond me. I would also add that it shouldn't be necessary for them to install and use their own copy of Eloquance, as they do. Why can't they simply use the SAPI 4 or SAPI 5 voices which are already installed on every single system running Windows XP and later? In short, what a damned waste of time and if I'd actually bought that application I would have been very annoyed. The installer is a total joke. I don't doubt that once installed, (if you're fortunate enough to get that far), it's probably superior to other solutions in a number of ways. However, for me at least, the installer was a joke and the installation procedure was anything but a joke. It just wasn't funny at all. It might be worth pointing out that this is a 64-bit version of Jaws we're talking about here. Possibly the 32-bit version behaves differently, I wouldn't know. But it's a mute point for me because the 32-bit version won't run on my machines. Well, actually, perhaps it would. Thinking about it, it might be worth a shot. But I hope the installer is better. The problem here, of course, is that you lose some of the functionality. Gordon 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. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
