safe mode is not the bios is it? i ahve been able to get in to windows safe mode option easily enough in the past now if it can access the bios of a ocmputer that's what we need surely?
On 19 Oct 2012, at 14:52, "Martin G. McCormick" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the information. One thing that occurs to me besides > the extra expense of all these commercial Windows screen readers > is that the user experience is not standardized for any of them. > > If you get used to JAWS, for example, Voiceover is like > a foreign language and vice versa. > > This is bad for the concept of ubiquitous computing. You > walk up to X and need to do Y and the people who spent time and > money making it accessible decided to use a screen reader one > isn't familiar with so the whole thing falls flat despite the > best of intentions. > > So my question is, how similar are JAWS, Window-Eyes > and the Optiguide systems? I suspect they all do certain > things better than anybody else's product and totally explode on > other applications. They are too expensive to have one of each > and keep all those running meters humming along and they > probably install libraries and hijack interrupts that would make > product A kill Product B which is, of course, not acceptable. > > That's the nature of the technology and I am not down on > anything except the concept of extra cost screen readers, but > other than that, how easy is it to move between the 3 or 4 > commonly-used products? > > Sighted users who are used to Windows can go fairly > seemlessly to a Mac because the GUI experience is similar but as > far as I know, every screen reader from Voiceover to all the > Windows products are all their own little world. > > Martin > > Chris writes: >> I wonder if any of you have seen this. Got this via a tweet. >> http://www.utechaccess.com/Products/OptiGuide/ > > ======================================= > > 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> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= 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> ---------------------------------------
