[brailleblaster] Re: Window-Eyes, 32-bit Windows and Braille Blaster
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:28:26 -0400
John,
I am also a beta tester for window-Eyes and I sent a message to the GW Micro
beta list describing this problem. I don't know if they might have any time
to take a look at it or not. I will get back to you when I hear from them.
You said that you knew people who were using the 32-bit version of BB. Do
you know what screen reader they are using? Are there any different quirks
with that setup for them?
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Window-Eyes, 32-bit Windows and Braille
Blaster
Hi Vic,
It's interesting that NVDA works. Somebody on the NVDA development list
might have an idea why there is a difference. Unfortunately, I'm not on
that list. Maybe I'll sign up.
There are other quirks with BrailleBlaster and Jaws. There is no cursor
on a line in the wordprocessor until a key is pressed. On the other
hand, with the latest version of Jaws ctrl+tab switches between the
Daisy view and Braille view, so that is fixed. A Java oddity is that if
you give a file name with a path containing backslashes on the command
line Java removes the backslashes. You either have to put the file name
in quotes or use double backslashes. Eclipse gets around these problems
somehow.
John
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 02:52:09PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>
>
> I just determined that Window-Eyes doesn't work well with Braille Blaster
on
> 32-bit versions of Windows. It acts similar to how all screen readers work
> with the open/save dialog. It is tremendously sluggish and sometimes it
> seems that you lose speech completely. I noticed this first in my 32-bit
XP
> virtual machine. I sent a copy of the latest build to a friend running
> 32-bit Windows Vista. He observed the same thing. In fact, he said that
> there was no speech in Braille Blaster at all. I think if he would have
> waited long enough for the keystrokes to speak they would have. In both
> instances NVDA spoke flawlessly with BB. This proves that there was
nothing
> wrong with the BB build. Window-Eyes does work perfectly with BB on 64-bit
> Windows 7 on my main PC. Any idea what might cause this difference or how
we
> can pin it down?
>
>
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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