So if I understand right when I put 9.2 on my windows 8.1 machine I can install windows 10 using windoweyes and it will talk or do I have to use narrator?
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rkurlan=schools.nyc....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Doug Geoffray via Talk Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 12:39 PM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: Re: installing Windows 10 Don, There are four scenarios when it comes to Windows 10 and Window-Eyes. Let me address each. 1) You get a new computer and it already has Windows 10 installed You must have the full Window-Eyes 9.2 installer. Windows 10 will block the installation of any version less than 9.2. 2) You manually install Windows 10 on a system Windows 10 is no different than any other operating system at this point. Window-Eyes itself can not be installed until Windows 10 itself is fully installed so you would need to use Windows Narrator to help you with the Windows 10 installation. Windows Narrator can be launched with Windows-Enter. 3) You are upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 You must have Window-Eyes 9.2 installed on your Windows 7 system before the Windows 10 upgrade will allow you to continue. I have not seen the final Windows 10 upgrade which will start being pushed out on Wednesday so I can't say specifically what will happen but on the internal builds I've been testing I've seen the following. I had Windows 9.2 installed and running on my Windows 7 system when I started the Windows 10 upgrade. Everything was working well and speaking perfectly. However, there are eventually two back to back screens which have Window-Eyes unloaded and require you to launch Narrator. After those two screens the upgrade will continue and Window-Eyes will eventually launch and be working under Windows 10. However, under Windows 7 only there is a problem with the Window-Eyes accessibility driver. The issue is Windows 7 requires a mirror driver which Window-Eyes has. But after the upgrade, Windows 10 does not support mirror drivers so it blocks them leaving Window-Eyes without the driver causing there to be no off screen model. In most cases you don't even need an off screen model but it is still important to resolve this. The easiest way to resolve this is to simply run your Window-Eyes 9.2 upgrade on itself under Windows 10. So after Window 10 has been installed just download your Window-Eyes 9.2 upgrade and run it. This will install the necessary accessibility driver causing you to have a full 9.2 working copy under Windows 10. 4) You are upgrading from Windows 8.x to Windows 10 You must have Window-eyes 9.2 installed on your Windows 8 system before the Windows 10 upgrade will allow you to continue. Like Windows 7 there are a couple screens that come up without Window-Eyes running so you will need Narrator. After that Window-Eyes will come up and your Windows 10 will be running perfectly with Window-Eyes 9.2. There is nothing extra you need to do. Windows 8 and Windows 10 both use an accessibility driver, not a mirror driver, so life is good after the upgrade. Regarding how Microsoft is going to upgrading a billion devices to Windows 10, there is an interesting blog post you may find interesting: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/02/windows-10-preparing-to-upgrade-one-billion-devices/ Regards, Doug On 7/27/2015 10:44 AM, Don H via Talk wrote: > When Windows 10 becomes available can it be installed without sighted > help? Will WE 9.2 have to be reinstalled after installing Win 10? > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/dgeoffray%40aisquared.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rkurlan%40schools.nyc.gov. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
