Re: JAWS playing nice with competing screen readers
- From: "Anders Holmberg" <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 15:03:11 +0200
Hello!
I have been using Jaws 4.51 and Hal 5.21 from Dolphin for a couple of months
now.
I think they work wel together and there has been no problems dealing with
the video interceptor.
I have some problems but these video problems is'nt any screenreader related
i think.
/Anders.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Epley" <gregepley@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: JAWS playing nice with competing screen readers
> Hi,
> I'm wondering what the experience has been here with any JAWS users
> installing screen readers from other vendors alongside JAWS. The reason I
> ask is that I find myself in a position of needing to know how software
> comes across to these other screen readers, not just JAWS alone. I don't
> recall the specific version of JAWS, but recall reading some time back
about
> how all the screen reader manufacturers were going to be using a new
> standard which would allow multiple accessibility products to be installed
> without causing one another various problems.
>
> Please understand I'm not talking about running three different screen
> readers at once, I'm referring to being able to load probably at most a
> current WindowEyes and a current Dolphin product along with my existing
JAWS
> 4.51/5.0, then run a particular screen reader for testing a software
access,
> unloading the screen reader, loading another screen reader, testing access
> of a software with that one, unloading that screen reader, etc., I think
the
> process makes sense.
>
> I would very much appreciate knowing any "gotchas" others here have
> encountered in doing this, if anyone has, so I might make an informed
> decision on how I want to proceed on this. It would also be helpful to
know
> version numbers of the screen readers you've used, rather than just
telling
> me "I loaded JAWS and WindowEyes" which doesn't really tell me anything
> specific enough.
>
> I would have posted this to a programming list since I'm primarily wanting
> to do this to test software, but felt I might get a better idea on just
the
> JAWS side of things by posting here. I'm really concerned here about
these
> other products working nicely with JAWS, since JAWS is where I've placed
my
> investment. I'm not planning to buy any of the other readers, just use
them
> to test with assuming they won't expire on me some period after
installation
> (e.g., JAWS can be run in demo mode as many times as one likes but only
for
> 40 minutes at a time). I'm thinking the other products I mentioned can
also
> do this but maybe some of you can comment to that.
>
> My primary concerns here again are what problems I can expect to encounter
> trying to load and use other screen reader products on a machine that JAWS
> 4.51/5.0 is installed on, along with the version numbers of those products
> so I won't be dealing with "apples vs. oranges". Many thanks for any info
> in advance!
> -Greg Epley
>
>
>
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