From that podcast I understood that jaws will have to turn off all the eye candy to function properly. Also I gathered that something like dcm will exist for vista but the guts are radically different. Really no more than that on the dcm issue. Nice that we'll be able to revert back to the classic start menu and use the add/remove dialog like a list view again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:13 PM Subject: JAWS, Vista and Mirror Drivers
Hi,Last night I finally got around to listening to the recent FS podcast about Vista and found it very interesting. I'm curious about something, though. My impression is that Vista offers a lot of "eye candy" and that video handling is quite different, involving the use of mirror drivers. On a recent Main Menu program, the same thing was discussed with regard to Window-Eyes, so apparently mirror drivers must be necessary for screen readers to function properly on Vista. So what's the deal with using mirror drivers and why are they necessary? What does that do to the visual appearance of the screen and would screen appearance be radically different enough to completely throw off a sighted user who might be looking at the screen while I'm using JAWS? I'm really curious about this.Tom -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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