Hi all Given the recent reduction in the prices of GW Micro's products, my other half decided that I would be allowed a copy of Window-Eyes 8.2. I have played with it quite a bit this afternoon and here are a few things I have found.
Firstly, using the BrailleNote as a terminal via a USB port, WE is way way more responsive than it used to be, not to mention reliable. It also easily out-performs NVDA in terms of Braille. There seem to have been some changes made to WE and a lot of the Braille configuration options seem to have gone. This is a definite regression, if it is so, and I'm hoping that they have simply been moved because things like whole word mode seem to have gone. Another thing I don't like is the fact that you now don't seem to be able to turn of the status cells. These are a total waste of space quite literally and if you cannot disable them it is a travesty. Also, the responsiveness in Office 2010 has deteriorated drastically, to the extent that cursoring up and down in a document sometimes results in entire lines of text being skipped. Sorry, this is in Word, not in Office, the latter is way too generic. I will play some more, but initial findings are mixed. I still kind of like the NVDA interface. What I did find though is that with WE, I was able to gain access again to RollBAck's entire interface. This is not visible at all under NVDA. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/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> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
