Re: JAWS 5.10 Unattended Installations
- From: "Steve Britt" <swimmer953@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:08:27 -0500
I guess that goes to show that when we lose the sound card, we're in a real
pickle, aren't we? I've always felt that braille display support should be
added for installs, just in case the user is deaf-blind.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Stone" <alex.stone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: RE: JAWS 5.10 Unattended Installations
> Steve, Certainly at the moment the jaws installer doesn't support Braille
> during install. I've been involved in many debates about this over the
> years, and I believe the fs position is that unless you have to tell the
> installer at the beginning of the install which Braille display you're
using
> then it won't be able to tell.
> Cheers.
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Steve Britt
> Sent: 16 October 2004 15:15
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: JAWS 5.10 Unattended Installations
>
>
> Steve, this brings up an interesting question: suppose you have a braille
> display. On these installs, when you lose the sound card, would the
braille
> display still tell you what's going on during the install?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Hicks" <Steven.Hicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 5:10 AM
> Subject: JAWS 5.10 Unattended Installations
>
>
> > Hello friends,
> > rather than asking a question, I thought that I would share some
> > information with you all for a change :-)
> > I have been thinking of workarounds on new systems and new installs etc
> > and the accessibility issues this provides us with.
> > You can use an Unattended installation script to install MS-Windows XP
> > and this appears to work fine. The problem I was then faced with was
> > that on new
> > systems, often, the sound card is not recognised automatically by the
> > new installation of MS-Windows leaving us with no access to install the
> > sound card
> > drivers manually.
> > I have now discovered a way to perform an Unattended installation of
> > JAWS with an Unattended Answer File. this is ideal if you have a
> > hardware synthesiser
> > as in theary, you can do an Unattended installation of JAWS then
> > memorise the keystrokes to set your hardware synthesiser running e.g.
> > Insert+S, arrow
> > down to the required hardware synthesiser and away you go.
> > Feel free to give me a shout if you have any questions or comments that
> > I may be able to help with but I have just tried it on a test machine
> > with an Apollo
> > 2 installed and it appears to work fine.
> > Steve.
>
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