Some questions seem to occur regularly about development with Visual Studio and a screen reader. Here are some points to help address them. Please save this information if you are not yet developing with C# or Visual Basic, but may do so in the foreseeable future.
The JAWS scripts for Visual Studio -- developed by blind programmers on these lists -- work with either VS 2005 or VS 2008. They do not work with VS 2010, which uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls rather than Windows Forms controls.
The script installer now works with Windows 7 and 64-bit Windows, http://EmpowermentZone.com/msenv2005.exe or for a manual install, http://EmpowermentZone.com/msenv2005.zip The documentation in msenv2005.htm gives steps for a manual install.If the executable installer does not work, please report specifics about steps taken, resulting error messages, etc, to this list. Remember to pick your JAWS version in the installer dialog. Otherwise, just press Enter to accept all defaults of that dialog.
A collection of tips related to nonvisual development with .NET -- also gathered from blind programmers on these lists -- is at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/ndn.htmAlso, the msenv2005.htm documentation, included with the scripts and put in the JAWS script folder, includes a list of hotkeys and a tutorial on developing a fruit basket program with C# and VS.
If anyone is interested in helping to develop JAWS scripts that improve the usability of VS 2010, please contact Justin at
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