Dave:
I have just a few questions:
1. What are the system requirements for HPR?
2. What is the cost?
3. Do you have to have netscape to use it? and if so where do I get it?
4. Can you switch back and forth between HPR and JFW, when on a web page?
Thanks,
George Marshall
----- Original Message -----
From: David Scrimenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 1999 2:21 AM
Subject: My report on HPR
>I have been evaluating IBM's Home Page Reader (HPR), and comparing it
>to JFW with IE4.
> Let me summarize before giving specifics. HPR makes the net easier,
>not more accessible. If you can't access a page with JFW, you will
>probably not be able to access it with HPR. But, the pages you can
>access are definitely easier to use.
> Positive points
>HPR reads a whole web page with one key stroke. There are no pauses at
>the end of lines. You can move up and down the page by paragraph
>rather than by line, which makes reading more logical. And if you do
>jump around, you don't have to reinitiate the say all command. You can
>just keep reading from the new position. If you stop in the middle of
>a line, you can start on the same word where you stopped, you don't
>have to hear from the beginning of the line. Links are read in a
>different voice so they're easy to identify. If you don't understand a
>link by its name, you can quickly read the whole sentence that
>contains that link without having to route the jaws cursor there. When
>you hit the back button to return to the previous page, you're put at
>the spot where you were last, not at the top of the page. Pages are
>automatically formatted so they read in the most natural way. It seems
>to work even better than the reformat command in JFW. You receive more
>information about the layout of the page than with JFW which helps you
>better organize complex pages in your mind. HPR works better with
>select menus or combo boxes. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but
>sometimes with JFW when I'm arrowing through a combo box, I'm taken to
>another page when I was just trying to look through the choices. And
>of course you have the good JFW features in HPR such as putting links
>in a list box and quickly moving between frames.
> Negative points
>In general, HPR works better than JFW with some exceptions. Filling
>out forms requires more key strokes with HPR. However, HPR identifies
>some form fields that JFW misses. HPR uses to many of its own key
>strokes. They're usually logical but it would be easier to learn if it
>used more standard Windows commands, menus etc. Finally, neither HPR
>nor JFW support Java.
> Thanks to all the folks who gave me tough web pages. If you want
>to try HPR, go to:
>www.ibm.com/sns
>
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