[access-uk] Re: Taking the plunge
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 22:05:37 -0000
Andy. If its the 'truth' you are after about screen readers,
well, I have to say you are unlikely to get it. Its too bound up
with personal preference and often people simply like what they
have got used to using.
I have warned earlier that the old hornets nest of pitting one
screen reader's advantages against another could errupt here
again, and very acromonious it has gotten in the past!
You could do worse than to look at:
The Key to the Information Age: A Review of Three Screen Readers,
Part 1
(And just in case that does not reproduce as a direct link, then
try:
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050304
Which should take you directly to the page. Its an article which
appeared in AccessWorld in the US in summer of last year, and its
the first of a two part review. Out-of-date now of course with
the advent of JAWS 6 and Window-Eyes 5, not to mention the onward
progress of HAL.
HTH.
Ray
Personal emails: Email me at
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 8:37 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Taking the plunge
Good on you James.
I wish I had the courage to plunge in like that. However, I'd
really love
to hear the truth about screen readers. Is, for example, JAWS a
better
screen reader than WindowEyes? How about someone doing a study,
or a
competition, so that we will finally accept that the grass is
never greener
on the other side, and we have probably now accepted our
preference, in
terms of screen readers! I've a copy of WindowEyes and I am a
JAWS user,
but I've never bothered to sit down and get to know WindoEyes.
I'm Smitten.
Best wishes.
Andy from sunny Kilcreggan.
Drop me a wee line at:
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:47 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Taking the plunge
> Hi all
>
> I've just received my Copy of Window-Eyes which was included
> with the
> Brailliant Braille Display that I purchased. The last time I
> used
> Window-eyes I was being taught by a typing teacher who was very
> nice, but
> always yearning for the era of mechanical typewriters. We were
> battling
> with Window Eyes in aroudn 1998, but came to the conclusion
> that it wasn't
> very good, most probably because neither of us knew the first
> thing about
> screen reading or computers. I've been using JAWS more or less
> since
> then, but it will be interesting to see how the latest version
> of WE
> performs on a better system now I know what I'm doing. If I'm
> reasonably
> satisfied with WE then I think I'll just maintain that, and
> keep my
> existing JAWS for applications where I need to do scripting
> etc. It will
> be interesting to finally find out whether all the great things
> said about
> Window Eyes on here are really true!
>
> Seeyer later
>
> James
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