Re: Jaws and Vista
- From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:34:04 -0300
What saves jaws from being sometimes a poor designed screen reader is
definitely its scripting capabilities which makes possible to fine
tune it and support many applications. For me jaws didn't compete with
other screen readers in the same level untill a little time ago
because other readers couldn't be scripted and because of this had to
rely on factory support only. Now that windows eyes and system access
are becoming scriptable all of them will have the same power, so how
they react when used with applications that still have no scripts
written for will become a important comparation item.
Marlon
2008/4/11, Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Last summer, I did some relatively thorough Blind Confidential
> (http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com) articles on how the three screen
> readers I use (JAWS, System Access and Window-Eyes) behave while running
> Vista. There was no clear "winner" as all had weaknesses and strengths in
> the, what was then, the new OS. At that point, using JAWS 8.xx as 9.0 had
> yet to be released, JAWS definitely performed worse than the other two - I
> intentionally lead with weakenesses and one being "worse" than the others as
> none did a really good job but System Access performed the best of a group
> of poor performers.
>
> Now, nearly a year later, System Access still outperforms JAWS but, as has
> been SA's weakeness for a long time, it supports fewer applications. JAWS
> 9.0.xxx is a big improvement over the 8.xx series but I find myself
> refreshing the screen and performing a lot of rudimentary tasks more than
> once to get it to work properly - at the same time, JAWS worksin a lot of
> applications that go unsupported in the other screen readers.
>
> I have not tried Window-Eyes 7.0 so I cannot comment on it.
>
> For the longer articles, go to the blog (link above) and search for Vista
> and you should find the pieces I wrote last year. You can be certain that
> all have improved some since then.
>
> cdh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of inthaneelf
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:00 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Jaws and Vista
>
> hmmmm, there is a site that had such information for XP and office XP and
> some other applications, a college, I wonder if they have updated and added
> information on vista, I'll have to go check it.
>
> inthane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mario Percinic" <mario.percinic@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws and Vista
>
>
> > Yup, i agree, it would be really good info to have.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: Jaws and Vista
> >
> >
> > I'd be interested in any such notes as well!
> >
> > thanks,
> > inthane
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Dennis Clark
> > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:56 AM
> > Subject: Jaws and Vista
> >
> >
> > I am looking for peoples experiences using Jaws with Vista. Also, are
> > there any documents or websites which might help me configure Vista to
> > work best with Jaws and offer suggestions on using Vista. My
> > understanding is that it is quite different than XP Pro. Thanks for your
> > assistance.
> > Regards,
> > Dennis
> >
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