Thanks Vic for this great reply. I can't believe I forgot one of the most wonderful features of Window-Eyes: it is not copy protected! How great is that!
This was the cause of one of my multi-month support sessions: I could not get the copy protection on jaws to work properly on my Vista laptop (vista was relatively new back then). I had to keep being escalated up and up, because no one new what the real problem was. I finally ended up having to install eight copies of jaws (using eight copy-protection keys I mean), to get it to work on my vista laptop. And as soon as the next version came out ... well who knows, I left before then. It took me months to get to that "solution". What a great thing it is for us to be allowed to install it as we need, without fighting copy protection. Thanks Vic, Chip > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Making Comparisons > > This note is slightly outside of the purpose of the GW Info > list, however I feel it is important that I say this here. > > GW Micro gets a lot of negative comments on this list. It is > understandable, because the nature of such a list is to > report a problem or a challenge to see if there is a solution > available. I have no doubt that GW Micro staff have tough > skins and realize this. Yet it is important to also let them > know what is working well. Nothing wrong with a little balance. > > now as for claiming that another screen reader is better, I > feel that this is not appropriate. Why? simply, because it is > not true. It is OK, in my humble opinion, to say that another > screen reader is different; after all this is closer to the truth. > > Even without the up and coming browse mode enhancements, WE > 7.52 works nicely with IE9. Yes I had to learn some > additional keyboard commands and investing some time in using > the mouse pointer makes the IE 9 experience much better than > I have been able to achieve with NVDA or JFW. In managing > Novell servers through the Netware browser management tools, > I have not been successful with any product other than > Window-Eyes. Netware claims that they have tested these tools > with JFW, but how they managed to get them to work as they do > with WE, I haven't a clue. > > While we are on the NVDA topic it has a definite role in > today's market. > And if you can get a new user to accept the quality of the > free synthesized voices that come with it, all the power to > you. Yes, there are a couple of better ones available for > NVDA that are free, but you better have the horse power to > make up for their lack of responsiveness and you better have > the knowledge it takes to install additional voices for NVDA. > It is easier than Sun Micro Systems Windows Bridge, but not by much. > > To share a recent experience in a Microsoft Server 2008 R2 > course, I was on a server and I was connected to eight other > servers using Microsoft's virtual environment. Window-Eyes > was running in all eight environments including the server at > my workstation. Can this be done with NVDA? I welcome anyone > wanting to try.. Does that make WE better? no, of course not. > It is just different and it is the tool for that specific situation. > > Oh, someone might be tempted to say that what I did could > also be accomplished by JFW or System Access. Again, see how > easy it is to install nine versions of either of those > products without incurring additional costs. > > Vic > > > 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. > 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.
