in say all. hope this helps.
Legend has it that on Saturday 6/17/2017 03:44 PM, Nick Sarames via Talk
said:
I didn't know you could do that with Window-eyes. Maybe I better learn
WE before I migrate.
On 6/17/2017 2:30 PM, Evan Reese via Talk wr
I'm having a different problem. I went to the site and when I entered my
email address, I was told that it was already registered. I can't imagine
how that could have happened because I had never been there before.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: bj colt via Talk
Sent: Sunday, July 23,
Hmmm, well, I'm running WE 8.4 on this Dell Windows 7 laptop, and I just got
the new Firefox 56.0 update. I checked and it says Firefox 56.0 32 bit. With
that version, I just went up to BARD, looked through a couple dozen books,
downloaded one book and one magazine.
So, at least with the BARD si
That was me, using WE 8.4 on a Windows 7 laptop with Firefox 56.0 32 bit.
I just had it open and went to three different sites, including the BARD
site. It works the same as always for me.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Lloyd Rasmussen via Talk
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2017 9:32 AM
gation.
Till now, these are my findings, and I hope others can contribute with
further findings, confirmations and ideas for solutions. Somehow seems
we have to trace exactly what causes the issue, before we can start
determining if WinEyes and Firefox 56+ can ever be made to work
hand-in-hand.
l Message-----
From: Evan Reese via Talk
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:22 AM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Cc: Evan Reese
Subject: Re: Latest Firefox, and accessibility
Hello Guys,
I'm the one who said that Firefox 56.0 32 bit was still working with my WE
8.4. Well, this morning it up
Yup, 7zip will do the job. I know because I've used it for .rar files
before, although it's been quite a while.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Michael Moore via Talk
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:48 PM
To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
Cc: Michael Moore
Subject: RE: Accessible .rar
I got one of those discs also.
A question I have is, is this a full release or just an update. I want to
install it on a second computer that currently has a much older version of
JAWS. Can I use this disc to install the latest version or is it just an
update to an already installed JAWS 18 ver
Hey thanks for this website. I am in exactly the same boat as you. I am a
reluctant convert, or more precisely a reconvert, since I did use JAWS until
I got Window Eyes in late 2007. I still use Window Eyes sometimes, but the
amount of time I have JAWS loaded is gradually increasing. Eventually,
alt-shift-k will put you in the center.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Donald L. Roberts via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:15 PM
To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com
Cc: Donald L. Roberts
Subject: Question re Winamp script
I question whether the balance in Winamp is 50%. But I can't
You don't have to be in the equalizer to use those panning keys. I just
checked. You can use them in the main window as well.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 6:16 AM
To: Donald L. Roberts via Talk
Cc: Larry Higgins
Subject: Re: a Wina
I've already had to do it.
My Window Eyes will absolutely not work with Skype anymore, and it won't
work with Firefox either.
But I still use WE whenever I can, for instance I'm using it now to write
this. It works great with Windows Live Mail, and it works better with
Winamp, my main audio pla
es and W10 1809
I never liked eloquence. I use dec-talk. Pam.
-Original Message-
From: Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 3:10 PM
To: Evan Reese via Talk
Cc: Larry Higgins
Subject: Re: Window-eyes and W10 1809
That's my take on it too.
I am also a Winamp user,
You also need to make sure the equalizer is actually on. Just because you're
in the window doesn't mean it's working. When you're sure you're in the
equalizer window, hit the letter n to make sure it's on. The way to be sure
is to set the preamp or one of the bands to an extreme high or low,
es
Well, I don't know what the Winamp equalizer frequency bands are. But in the
Playback settings, you can use ISO Standard instead of Winamp's frequency
bands, which is what I have mine set to. I haven't looked, but since it's a
standard, I'm sure there's info on the Web about what those ISO Stand
Thanks for sending this over.
Comparing these frequency bands, I can remember why I switched to the ISO
Standard frequency bands. (It was many years ago.)
I noticed that the low end seemed a little too high with the Winamp
frequency bands. In other words, the lows were not very low. I don't thin
Hmmm, how about a screenreader company that charges more for their product
than a decent desktop these days? Some people might call that being
"penalized" simply to access their PC, something any sighted person can do
right out of the box.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Pamela Domingue
e price of a screen reader and the
price of a desk top has everything to do with supply and demand. Fewer
consumers are purchasing desk tops. Until most screen reader users
replace their screen readers with Iphone-like products, the price of a
screen reader will likely not decrease much.
On 3/1
The "vast number of electronic items that have unreadable Screens of all
sizes", includes household appliances now. We had a heck of a time a few
years ago finding a stove we could use. If you haven't looked lately, just
about all of them come with a screen that you have to use to set the
tempe
Well, the best advice I can give is when first trying to use a touchscreen,
take your time. Move your finger slowly around the screen.
When I first got my iPad Mini 4, I moved my finger too quickly across the
screen, causing me to have trouble finding out what was on the screen
because my finger
For me at least, the expense of a new PC plus the expense of having to
switch to JAWS if WE goes under, might very well equal or exceed the expense
of a new Mac.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Charles Adkins via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 12:51 PM
To: Janet Brandly ; Window-Eye
I know, and while I like my iPad Mini 4, and I've found a lot of fun and
useful things to do with it, it does bug me that I can't view the file
system and that I can't just copy and paste files to and from it as I can
with other non-Apple devices.
It also bothers me that I can't simply pop an SD
Yes, patience, I can confirm this.
When you first encounter a touchscreen, move your finger around slowly so
that the device has a chance to speak what you've touched before your finger
has moved halfway across the screen. That was the problem I had when I first
got my iPad Mini. I made things
The voice speaks whatever your finger, or the pen, touches. That's how you
tell where you are.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Pamela Dominguez via Talk
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 4:48 PM
To: net bat ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: fat fingers and touch screens!
How would a
Thanks much for this.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Tom Kingston via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 11:33 PM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: A great article for those considering a Mac.
This is by Jonathan Mosen, a very experienced user of virtually every
accessibility opt
For me, using Window Eyes, if I want to find out if there are any buttons on
a screen, including YouTube, I just hit the b key and, if they're labeled,
as they are on YouTube, I hear what they are.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Dave via Talk
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2017 9:50 AM
To: Ted
Hey Guys,
I’ve got a friend who’s made the switch to JAWS from the latest Window Eyes,
and while she can get it to indicate capitalization when arrowing through by
character, she wants it to indicate capitalization when she reads through a
document line by line with the down arrow key, the same
Well, I can say that I have this problem with WLM using Win 7 and WE 8.4.
I can start composing a message and I can read it just fine. But then, I'll
alt-tab over to a web page I've got open in Internet Explorer, to get a link
to paste into a message for example, and then when I get back to my e
Hey Guys,
I’m using Window Eyes 8.4 and I think the latest Winamp app and the most
recent Winamp.
I had a mild crash and my Winamp alt-3 hot key to get file information is
not working. Instead of sending me to the info with the file tags that I can
edit, it just says the title, artist, and song
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the wrong subject line back there.
I’m using Window Eyes 8.4 and I think the latest Winamp app and the most
recent Winamp.
I had a mild crash and my Winamp alt-3 hot key to get file information is
not working. Instead of sending me to the info with the file tags that I can
edit
I'm using WE 8.4 with IE11 and have used PayPal routinely with no problems.
I buy music regularly from artists on Bandcamp and I pay through PayPal.
I've never had a problem in many purchases.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Tom Kingston via Talk
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 12:47 P
Hey Guys,
I'm using WE 8.4 on Windows 64-bit with IE11. Something's happened to my WE
8.4 settings somehow. Now, when I enter passwords, I don't hear anything; I
used to hear star star and so on.
Also, I no longer hear certain keys when they're pressed such as caps lock
and num lock. I used to
Well, I've heard mixed opinions as to whether it is any good. Last year, GW
Micro recommended it as one of the three alternatives to Macafee, but others
on this list have said that it doesn't work very well.
It is completely accessible. I don't think there's any disagreement about
that.
Evan
-
Subject line pretty much says it all.
I'm wondering if there's any torrent software I can use with Window Eyes.
Thanks much.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Tom Kingston via Talk
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 5:19 AM
To: Rick Thomas ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Read Syst
Hmmm, well, I guess that just goes to show how different points of view can
be. I'm on my second Dell laptop, which I bought in April of 2014. I just
got the microphone replaced, (having bought premium support), and it wasn't
nearly the hassle I thought it would be to get them to send someone ou
Well, we're on the same page on this.
The two Dell laptops I mentioned in the last message both have numeric
keypads on them. I travel two or three times a year, so for that often, it's
not a huge deal to pack one, even though they're a little wider than the
laptops with the cramped keyboards
I got the Dell Inspiron 17R in April 2014, with 8 gigs of RAM and a terabyte
harddrive. I just had to get the microphone replaced, but it wasn't nearly
the hassle I thought it would be. Overall, I've been very happy with the two
Dell laptops I've owned over the last seven years.
Well, both the Dell laptops I bought allowed you to disable the tougchpad
permanently. Someone sighted can reenable it if they need it.
On my older Dell laptop, I could make adjustments to the touchpad myself
with Window Eyes, so rather than permanently disable it, I reduced the
sensitivity so t
Well, I just got my microphone replaced on my Dell Inspiron, and the guy
came to my home and did it in about 45 minutes. True, I was on the phone for
about an hour and a half a couple days before that, but that was because the
technician, who knew what he was doing, was trying various things rem
Well, I got a Dell Inspiron laptop in April 2014 with the numeric keypad,
including a numlock key.
I use it just about every day.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: tchild via Talk
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 2:40 PM
To: net bat ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: no numlock ke
I just go to my System Tray and click on the Speakers and Headphones, then
the Mixer button and arrow through until I get to Internet Explorer and
adjust the volume from there. It's very quick.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Nick Sarames via Talk
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:44 PM
Well I just downloaded two albums from Amazon, but it wasn't exactly easy,
and I'm not really sure how I did it. It seems that rather than the Amazon
mp3 Downloader, which I still have on my system, they now want you to
download something they call the Amazon Music Installer, but Amazon claims
I agree with all of this. Still, we were promised a new version last year if
I recall correctly and nothing materialized, so I'm not holding my breath.
But, as you say, the program does most of what I want it to do, so I'm not
overly worried about when a new version will appear. I use it every d
Yup, got it. Doesn't surprise me at all.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 1:23 PM
To: Van Lant, Robin ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Forbes article on windows 7
Just to make sure that you go directly to the article, here is t
I admit, I'm a little behind on my updates on this Dell laptop. So I checked
my Important updates, and that KB3133977 is in there, and it's checked. I
have no idea as to whether I have an Asus motherboard in here, so I
unchecked the update, just to be on the safe side. I can't find anything
abo
Very interesting, and pretty much par for the course for Microsoft. But that
is not the Forbes article I read, the one about the Important update that is
checked by default, and, if you have a certain motherboard, and you install
that update, your system won't boot. That's the scary one, especia
Okay, here's the text of the article. Don't know whether the links in the
article will come through, but you'll at least be able to read the text. And
I haven't edited out the ads, so you'll just need to arrow down through them
and pick up the thread on the other side.
Earlier this year
Micros
Okay, so it basically comes down to a question of what Microsoft knew and
when they knew it. One author claims that Microsoft didn't see the problem,
the other claims they knew about it and changed the update from Optional to
Recommended anyway.
I don't know whether there is any way to settle t
Is there some reason they couldn't have built accessibility into the Edge
browser from the beginning? Now they have to bolt it on, which is never as
good.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Tony C via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:41 PM
To: Chris Skarstad ; Window-Eyes Discussion Li
Indeed. And Windows 7 will be supported until 2020. By that time, I'll need
a new computer and I'll get what OS is out then. In the meantime, I have a
scanner here that won't run under Windows 10 and I'm not replacing it until
it quits.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Dennis Long via Ta
Perhaps, ironically, Bing is the default search engine when I search on my
new iPad Mini 4. I can change it, but Bing is what you get by default.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Tom Kingston via Talk
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 3:03 AM
To: Tom Fairhurst ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Sub
Hmmm, I just got an iPad Mini 4 a couple weeks ago, my first foray into the
Apple world. But from my admittedly still somewhat limited experience, I
don't think Microsoft's Narrator is in the same league of accessibility as
VoiceOver.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Rick Thomas via Talk
Hmmm, that kind of sounds like the way Facebook does things. Think you're
Privacy settings are the way you like them? Well, maybe, until the next time
Facebook makes a change that is, then you have to do it all over again.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Pamela Dominguez via Talk
Sent:
Oh, I'm not afraid of it, I just don't see why I should bother if what I
have is being supported for four more years and it's working fine.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Darrell Bowles via Talk
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 2:13 PM
To: Kevin Huber ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re
Dennis Long via Talk wrote:
Exactly I agree so what something new is out wow big deal. I won't
upgrade
until things I want fixed are fixed.
-Original Message-
From: Talk
[mailto:talk-bounces+dennisl1982=gmail@lists.window-eyes.com]
On Behalf Of Evan Reese via Talk
Sent: Friday,
Well, it is a legitimate question. Why would you keep two separate screen
readers going. Seems like a waste of resources to work on both. Would be
more efficient to just have one and devote the resources that the other one
would take up to something else.
Evan
-Original Message-
From:
One thing I can say for GW Micro was that when I needed a new screen reader
back in 2007, GW Micro let me pay for Window Eyes on installments. I could
never have afforded it otherwise. As far as I know, Freedom Scientific does
not, and never has given people that option.
Evan
-Original Mes
If his equalizer is turned on, he can also adjust the volume by increasing
the preamp setting.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 4:17 PM
To: Rod Hutton ; Window-Eyes Discussion List ; 'Russ Kiehne'
Subject: Re: Wimamp problem
Hey Rod,
I’m using WE 8.4, and some setting got changed somewhere along the line so that
now, on some websites, and in some email messages, WE starts speaking in
foreign accents. I’ve looked around a fair bit to see what setting I need to
change to turn this language recognition back off, but haven’t bee
I'm still using Window Eyes 8.4 and PayPal is perfectly accessible with it.
I've been using PayPal for 8 or 9 years now, I forget exactly when I got my
account, and it's been accessible all that time.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015
I use the regular site all the time with IE11 and WE 8.4. I don't use the
accessible site because it's limited. Last time I checked, I couldn't buy
downloadable music on it, so I went back to the main site.
One thing I can't do on the main site is leave seller feedback. There's
supposed to be th
I've got some recent CDs that I've bought in the last few months, and Winamp
seems to know the artist and track title on those even without the database.
But older CDs I check are unknown.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Pamela Dominguez via Talk
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 6:26 PM
To
A couple of years? That's interesting. I bought an Inspiron laptop with a
numeric keypad exactly one year ago last week, and it has a numlock key on
it. I'm sure glad I didn't get burned by that one.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Lloyd Rasmussen via Talk
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Same here. I go on Amazon regularly, and I signed in just a couple days ago
in fact. I was never asked to fill in a CAPTCHA, or however you spell that.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: George Savory via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 2:14 PM
To: carl wake ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
I don't get a CAPTCHA on the main site either.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: net bat via Talk
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:31 PM
To: Terri Pannett ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Amazon
i don't get the captcha.
but if useing firefox try getting a invite for the webvisum
I think you want insert-h. You'll get quite a long list of commands, not
only the ones in Winamp, but also the commands provided by the Winamp
script. Modifying the left and right channel are in that list.
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Donald L. Roberts via Talk
Sent: Monday, Novembe
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