That's totally whong! Duxbury works quite well, better in some
respects than it does with Jaws.
Kind Regards
Gordon Smith
Information Technology Accessibility consultant
Providing Support For Young People Living With Sight Loss:
Advice On Accessible Information Technologies And Braille
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From: adam morris <[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:24:33 +1100
Subject: Re: Jaws 15, initial Impressions
Hi Gordon,
I have heard that Duxbury doesn't work with NVDA but does with
Jaws.
I don't have it so can't confirm though.
On 20-January-2014 06:58, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hello everybody
I have just completed the process of installing, aceativating
and
configuring Jaws 15 on my primary computer. My initial
impressions are
somewhat mixed. I guess I'm just used to the way that orther
screen-readers on onether platforms behave. But it seems to me
that
Jaws still doesn't allow the kind of dynamic object interaction
available in applications such not NVDA and Window-Eyes. I am
deliberately avoiding making comparisons between Windows-based
access
solutions such as Jaths and Apple's VoiceOver. Since the two
operating
systems are so very different, it would be grossly unfair to
compare
them either at the access level or the basic operating system
level.
So, back to Jaws. I note that Freedom still doesn't seem to
allow the
active cursor to wander outside of the active application,
treating the
application window as a kind of sheet of paper whose boundrieeas
you
cannot cross.
Again, these are only initial impressions and I have no doubt
that I
still have lots to learn.
I know, I always said that I wouldn't ever deal with Freedom
again
following their disgusting treatment of me from several years
back. But
need's must, and in any event grudges get one nowhere. So last
week we
bit the proverbial bullet and bought a license for a single-user
client
of Jaws Professional 15.
Interestingly enough, although I do have an active Internet
connection, Freedom's automatic activation application refused
to allow
me to connect to their servers. I was, however, able to connect
to the
fsactivate.com system and obtain a license code from there
without any
trouble. So I just used the manual activation method and that
worked
great.
I'm also pleased to say that I've been able to configure Jaws
to use
my prefurred software speech synthesiser. That was quite a
welcome
bonus because I really do not like that awful Eloquance system.
I will
be most interested to go through some of the training material
to find
out what's changed since I last played with Jaws when version 11
was
current. I'm particularly looking forward to playing with the
Microsoft
Ofice applications to see how well those work. On this machine,
I also
have licensed versions of Window-eyes, Access To Go, Dolphin
Supernova
and, of course,
NVDA. I'm looking forward to seeing how well each system
performs
within the environments I need to work in. Mary may be able to
advise
me regarding Duxbury Braille Translator 11.1 SRBLED. I'm toying
with
the idea of attempting to remove Microsoft Office Professional
2010, in
favour of version 2013, for which we also have a license.
Hopefully the
Office experience under Jaws will be a good one.
I welcome very much any comment others may have regarding how
Jaws
works. Especially if such comment helps me to get the best out
of it.
And finally, I apologise for any errors in this message. It was
written
using my BrailleNote Apex and I still seem to get stray ghost
dots now
and then. I'm going to be talking in some detail about that in
a post
to our sister group "Techno-Chat" in the not too distant future.
Kind regards
Gordon Smith
Information Technology Accessibility Consultant
Providing Support For Young People Living With Sight Loss:
Advice On
Accessible Information Technologies, And Braille Transcription
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