I'm using 6.0. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that. Under XP Home with SP2.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Easy CD/DA Extractor accessibility Which version of JAWS do you use, Daniel, I honetsly can't remember. Running the latest version of JFW, I have personally not come across these accessibility issues ... which isn't to say they don't exist. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Yardbird wrote: > Just recently, I purchased the newest version of this program when I saw > its > release announced on another list. The reason I went for it was because > I'd > downloaded and tried out the previous version, just weeks earlier, and > found > its controls, settings and menus almost entirely accessible to my Jaws 6.0 > under XP Home, with few exceptions. Maybe, now that I think of it, I just > wwasn't aware of some features that Jaws didn't speak, but managed to use > its basic functions anyway, without knowing I could actually tweak > important > settings. > > > But now that I've installed the new version, which I'd hoped would be at > least as smooth-functioning with Jaws as its predecessor, I'm > disappointed. > Although the menus are still as accessible as before, the tabs and > settings > in the modules for burning, ripping and, I suppose, file conversion > (though > I didn't explore that function) are full of gaps and things that Jaws > can't > pick up just moving about with the Tab key and arrow keys, as before. > Some > items can be tricked into speaking, if you know they're there in the first > place, by using the Say Line command, but others just are invisible or > completely impossible to make sense of. I hear "blank" where I'm sure > there's a setting or control, "true" as an alternative to check about > something, I have no idea what, and the browser views and list views > involved in finding files and listing them to burn, for instance, are not > possible for me to figure out. I just wind up tabbing around and around. > Once, I managed to create a CD from files on my hard drive, but I was so > confused that I don't remember how I managed it. > > Has anyone else had trouble with this new version? I've contacted the > developer, who wrote back to me very quickly, though he seemed surprised > and > a little taken aback at my inquiry, and at first just asked if there were > some Jaws patches that could be used, or something like that. I explained > that when possible, a program interface was coded in a way that let Jaws > identify its features, and when that failed, there were volunteer script > writers. But that this was an informal arrangement, so that you can't > just > order something to compensate for a poorly labeled interface. > > I offered to help find him resources and links for learning more about > coding or whatever you call it to interface with Jaws, but he hasn't > written > back again, yet. I'm hoping to maintain a respectful relationship, > because > I'd like to support his work, and the program seems nicely designed, very > clean, from what I experienced with the earlier version. > > Anyone else have experience with this new version of the program? I got > the > impressing that it's popular with screen reader people, so I wonder if > others are having less trouble with this than I am, or know how to improve > the situation. > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 7/14/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 7/14/2005 _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
