RE: An Attendee at the JAWS 7.0 release in Austin, Texs speaks!

FS sales is now saying next week for the release.
 

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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Skarstad
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:26 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: An Attendee at the JAWS 7.0 release in Austin, Texs speaks! 

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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