[access-uk] Re: Narrator

  • From: pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:03:12 +0100

hi jackie,

sorry i didn't make it clear in my message that it was windows 10
anniversary edition that i installed last week.
i've played around with narrator a little including on the web and it
does work but i still don't think it is as good as any of the screen
readers i have on my computers which are, window-eyes, system access,
and NVDA.

pete.

-- 
pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:59:02 +0100
"Jackie Brown" <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Pete

I updated to Windows 10 some weeks ago now and quite like it.  But I was 
really referring to the Windows 10 Anniversary update which hasn't arrived in 
Windows Update for many of us Windows 10 users yet.  I understand that 
Narrator has some new features, and it is this new release I am particularly 
keen to look at once it is rolled out properly.  The Anniversary Edition was 
released on 2nd August, but there is no sign of it here yet!

Kind Regards,

Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ;
pete gurney
Sent: 11 August 2016 16:05
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Narrator

hi jackie,

yes i updated last week.
i had to do it the difficult way removing my speech drivers and using
NVDA           to do it and then re-install them afterwards.
personally although narrator is much better than it used to be it certainly 
isn't on a par with the dedicated screen readers yet.
but windows 10 i am very pleased with as it seems far more stable on the 
windows 7 and 8 machines that i upgraded compared to how they were before.
-- but when there were more problems before i think it was the screen readers 
causing those problems rather than the operating system.
i will mention one problem i had which wasn't easy to solve as i tried lots 
of things before finding the solution by accident.
i was having problems with window-eyes not speaking context menus, combo 
boxes on the web, and some tree views and i was trying all sorts of things to 
correct it without success but then purely by accident i found what was 
causing it. 
i was having a look around in all the different "ease of access center" 
settings and went into the section for setting up high contrast. 
when i tabbed down the screen at the bottom i found a section labelled as 
"other programs installed" which has a warning saying "running more than one 
of these programs at a time might cause conflicts.
and in this section on my computer it shows two programs, jarva access bridge 
which was ticked to allow it, and window-eyes which was not ticked which 
obviously interfeers with window-eyes because as soon as i ticked window-eyes 
 everything started working correctly again.
so this obviously means that if there is more than one assistive technology 
program installed on the computer windows 10 could interfeer with one of them 
because it will automatically only give one of them full access and that will 
be the first one in alphabetical order.
  
pete.

pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:26:29 +0100
"Jackie Brown" <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Pete

So have you upgraded, and what do you think of Narrator?  I wonder why it 
is taking quite a while for the upgrade to appear in Windows 10 Updates?  
Thanks for clarification of the Media tool issue.


Kind Regards,

Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of pete gurney
Sent: 11 August 2016 14:54
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Narrator

hi john,

the answer now should be no to the first question and yes to the second.
when the windows 10 anniversary edition came out last week there was a 
problem with the media creation tool that prevented people who had 
window-eyes or jaws installed from installing the windows 10 anniversary 
edition and the only way around it was to uninstall the display drivers for 
those programs and then re-install them once the windows 10 installation 
was complete.
it seemed to mainly be effecting people who were upgrading from windows 7.
but even when that was happening you could still use NVDA to do the 
installation.
microsoft have since corrected the problem and i understand you can do the 
upgrade with either of those screen readers running.

if you visit:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade?tduid=(
987140d86cc457c48e81c1d6e3c2bdc7)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-gcP3sqV
EUXEMbAgHFGI6mQ)()

and click on the upgrade now button you should be ok.
i also understand that this method of upgrading wont be around for long as 
apparently there are a huge amount of non disabled people using this method 
because they didn't do it via the normal root before the 29 july.

pete.


pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:09:38 +0100
john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi do we have to uninstall the jaws or window eyes driver before 
installing the new window 10 update. also i wonder if one could just use 
nvda.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jackie Brown  <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, 11 August 2016 2.04 pm
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Narrator



Hi Saqib

Have you got the new version of Windows 10 yet?  If so, I would be 
interested to know how people are getting on with Narrator.  Mine 
hasn't come into Windows Update yet, and I'm not going to look 
elsewhere for it in case something screws up my machine.

Kind Regards,

Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Saqib Hussain
Sent: 11 August 2016 13.59
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Narrator

Hi. Thanks for that and I'm looking forward to setting it up later

On 11 Aug 2016, at 13.57, Jackie Brown <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

Hi Saqib

Try Windows key and enter.

Kind Regards,

Jackie Brown
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On Behalf Of Saqib Hussain
Sent: 11 August 2016 13.53
To: Access UK <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Narrator

Hi. How do I launch narrator on the  HP stream on set  up?
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