Thanks for the comments. I've noticed some unresponsiveness as well,
particularly when trying to read the current window with caps lock+f, so
I will do the same.
Baldev Shinder wrote:
Hello Chris
I also tried this program for about half a day or so but my experiences were also negative -- it was irresponsive most times and I couldn't work like that so I reverted to my normal screenreader.
It is a nice idea to have the free software but I think it needs to work properly and not mute itself whenever it felt like it.
I couldn't grasp it as it is at the moment but I think it can be improved and made more responsive - then I'll have another look.
Cheers
Baldev Shinder
West Bromwich, West Midlands U.K.
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*From:* access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Chris Hallsworth
*Sent:* 19 August 2006 13:38
*To:* access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [access-uk] Thunder comments
Dear all,
I'm <mailto:I@m> writing to report on my views of Thunder. I'm trying it again, and it is quite good, as stated previously. However, I am not impressed, as it definitely does not read out conversations in MSN/Windows/Windows Live Messenger. Also, when I want to compose e-mail in Outlook Express, Thunder does not announce what characters I'm deleting using the backspace key, although it does when pressing the forward delete key. Thirdly, Thunder hardly works in either Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird, which is quite annoying, since that's my favourite e-mail client to date as it's more secure. Finally, I'm using the Eloquence TTS Engine, and, if you press the right square bracket key, it says something like right score bracket, which is strange. Finally (and I mean finally), Thunder says quote when you press the apostrophe character, which is a bit confusing.
I hope you find these comments useful, and I look forward to hear from you.