Listers,
I know that this is a list devoted to our beloved Window-Eyes, and
die-hards like you and me, so excuse having to bring up the fish.
As it is, I am an occasional user of said screen reader, but for me
there has been a major turnoff since the very first time I
attempted to befriend the thing <smile>. It goes as follows. And I
really hope that some of you have dealt with this issue successfully.
It would seem that the folks who write the codes for JAWS have chosen to
muck with their version of the Eloquence synthesizer, and by doing so,
have messed up the pacing of it's delivery.
The problem as I have experienced it is the matter of how Eloquence
manages sentences. Instead of an appropriate pausing between sentences,
JAWS Eloquence takes no pause at all for periods, but continues in a
kind of blue streak affect that doesn't give one even enough
time to digest the sentence as its own entity, you might say.
I definitely prefer WE's pacing when it comes to sentences in
particular. I'm not talking about a pregnant pause between sentences
like you would get if you set it up to make such pauses, but a more
natural pause in the manner of the Window-Eyes presentation.
I hope this is all making sense, but it seems to me that some of you
Eloquence users might know just what I am talking about, and also how to
solve the problem. But who knows, maybe JAWS has simply created through
their own version of Eloquence this issue,
and that their is no solution at all other than a slight rewrite of
their code which I'm sure I would have to move heaven and earth to
convince them to do.
Speaking of code, when I use my Code Factory Eloquence, the sentence
pacing is correct, but they have their speed settings such that it goes
a step either above or below my preferred reading level.
I don't consider myself to be a total slow-poke when it comes to
reading, though I like to set my reading speed at 41 when using
Window-Eyes, a leisurely pace for me, but I am not quite sure of the
exact speed that WE would indicate if they had been using Code Factory
as their default version of Eloquence.
Anyway, if some kind user would please tell me if indeed there is or is
not a solution for this, and for me anyway, major issue, I would really
appreciate hearing from you.
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to get serious about learning JAWS, as
my yearly subscription started in September of last year, but WE is
still working reasonably for the apps I most often use, though less and
less so it seems with each new update. But, I'm going to have to decide
if it is worth paying that annual subscription fee to maintain it, or
start focusing on NVDA or Narrator as my screen reader of choice.
A big thanks in advance for any advice you all might have on this issue,
Larry
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