Re: An Attendee at the JAWS 7.0 release in Austin, Texs speaks!
- From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:25:45 -0500
Hi Beto
Excellent post. Skype can be gotten at
http://www.skype.com
A new version was *just* released so I'm not able to speak about its
accessibility or lack thereof, but if Eric was using it, then it must be ok
to use in most cases. There are excellent scripts for it as well which
leads me to the other link i'll provide here
http://www.jfwlite.com/programs.html
all of the programs on that page have been put up there because they are
speech friendly in some way or another. lots of programs are there and
links to scripts as well. Hope this helps.
At 04:18 AM 9/30/2005, you wrote:
Hello Everyone:
I have just now gone through a whole bunch of E-mails from the JFW List
Serve, and there were a couple about the show in Austin, Texas, on
Wednesday, regarding JAWS 7.0! If I remember correctly, if you have an
SMA, you will be able to download version 7.0 of JAWS today, September 30,
2005! It was three hours packed full of information; let me se what I
remember...
My first impression was that the group in Jacksonville, Florida is a very
friendly group. Eric Damery, if this is how you spell his name, got
on-line with some people from Freedom Scientific using MSN messenger 7.0--
I believe-- and he was explaining how well JAWS 7.0 works with MSN
7.0! Now, I did not take any notes, and I may be off in version numbers
etc, but I really came away with the impression that I have not even begun
to tap into how versatile JAWS really is, and this is coming from a user
since JAWS 2.0!
There has been a lot of work on having JAWS work in association with the
Microsoft Accessibility software which now enables JAWS to read certain
items, I do not remember what exactly, correctly. Eric used things like
Skype and FireFox in the presentation!
One thing that they did mention; Freedom Scientific is now dropping
support, and I hope I am stating this correctly, for all users which still
run Windows 95, and Win N.T. 4.0! He gave us a very good reason why as
well...
Eric stated that the technology which is being introduced in JAWS 7.0 now
cannot work in either one of those two environments. He made some kind of
statement that people have called into F.S. and complained that they were
unable to use new functions in new versions of JAWS which were just
released. When they investigated the matter, it was found that the
Windows environment being used was not able to manipulate the new
technologies which were put into JAWS. My thought was that if Microsoft
themselves do not support versions of windows like 3.1, 95, N.T. 4.0, I
don't see why anyone else should as well. My impressions are that if
there is anyone who still uses these particular environments (Windows 95,
NT 4.0) spend a couple of bucks and buy at least Win98SE, and this is
taking a risk as well!
There was no mention as to why the release was done in Austin, Texas, but
I was glad I attended. This is the first time I have ever participated in
an event such as this. As I was thinking about why the release was done
here, I told my wife (who drove me up to Austin) and I told her the only
rationale, I could think of, why F.S. did a show like this in Austin,
Texas was because of the new Operating System Microsoft is releasing-- I
believe the code name is Longhorn? Am I correct? Well, the University of
Texas athletic teams are the U.T. Longhorns! Hook Em Horns!
One lat thing; where can I download skype, if I am spelling it correctly,
as well as FireFox? Can anyone send me a list of programs which are JAWS
friendly?
Thanks,
Beto Escobar III, LMSW
CEO ACCESS San Antonio, Inc.
(210) 393-3524 mobile
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