Amen! I'm not crazy about the new interface either. The best thing is the
global setting. And I have read a bunch of the manual.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Riehl
To: gwinfo
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 10:46 AM
Subject: a couple of comments on windoweyes 7.5
I've been a long-time 'windoweyes user and, with a couple of exceptions, love
the product -- I think it's in most ways much better than the competition.
I have a couple of comments on 7.5. these are based on limited use and some
attempts to find information in the manual; I haven't gone through the entire
manual or tutorial yet.
1. I do like the fact that one can set all voice and other parameters from
one menu rather than having to go in and out of menus each time you change a
parameter. Nice innovation, Gw Micro!
2. However, I do not like the new interface. first, windoweyes is far too
verbose when alt-tabbing to it from other programs. I don't want or need to
hear menu choices, and I find it annoying that I end up on the last menu choice
I made, whether I'm in minimize or in some other part of the Interface. One
thing I like about JAWS is that it says "JAWS when you tab to it.
If there's a way to just make windoweyes say "windoweyes" when alt-tabbing to
it, or just the associated setfile, as it did before, I'd like to here it. I
think this needs to be improved for the next release.
3. I find the new interface hard to navigate; some of the categories aren't
obvious. Part of this is my unfamiliarity with the new interface. for me, the
new interface isn't better, on the whole; it's just different, requiring a
learning curve that, at my advanding age (smile) I'm less and less willing to
engage in.
4. I haven't figured out how to actually change voices. I can find voice
rotor, and how to add or delete a voice, but I haven't found where to actually
switch voices. It was not obvious from where I looked in the manual.
5. I would never have thought to look for the Voice rotor in the Apps
menu. I think this menu needs to be renamed, or another menu needs to be
created. I found voice rotor only by stumbling across it, so to speak.
I'm finding the menus less intuitive.
6. As I'm tabbing through the menus, I keep hearing "xxxx toggle scope,
button", then another tab brings me to where I can set or change the parameter.
Again, this is probably due to my lack of familiarity and not fully reading the
manual, but I don't' understand the purpose of the "scope toggle buttons" .
I'm finding it confusing and a pain to tab through to get to the actual
parameter I want to change.
there may be a quite logical reason for this added thing; I just haven't
found it.
I hope Gw Micro will be working with Mozilla to come out with an update
which fixes Firefox 4's problems.
Thanks for all of your hard work, Gw Micro;p I hope these comments are
helpful.
John riehl
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