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/
> 
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