I also have been a longtime Window-Eyes user. Version 7.5 works very well for me and the only thing that I have changed is that I've put WE in the system tray to hide it from the tab order. Scripts or apps makes no difference to me, but apps is shorter and that's a good thing.
I'M STILL WAITING FOR BROWSER IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE PROMISED A LONGTIME AGO, but maybe in version 8? Bob Tinney, K8LR, [email protected] Skype, bobtinn Life is full of challenges, that's what makes it interesting! ----- Original Message ----- From: sandra fouts To: John Riehl ; gwinfo Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: a couple of comments on windoweyes 7.5 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 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
