RE: jaws and seven:accessibility, settings, etc.

  • From: "D!J!X!" <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:37:53 -0400

Yea, it's a good lot of eye candy, things look glassy/transparent, with more
visual effects. Windows operate faster (visually)  as long as you have the
required graphics hardware. If you are running a display mirror driver, such
as the fs video interface/fs video display drivers, or some remote desktop
apps drivers, windows will automatically shut off aero. AERO is sort of a
separate direct x 10 application, which means that all of its processing is
done on the video card/GPU. As a system builder one thing that I run into a
lot, specially when building computers for recording is people wanting to
turn off aero to save power. This actually puts some of the load back on the
CPU to do the visual work with the windows, back to the old way of doing
things; aero as I mentioned is designed to run and completely take advantage
of the GPU and its power, saving the CPU extra  processing power. In tests
that we've done, turning off aero doesn't yield any faster results, it
actually slows the system down in certain occasions.
To keep this on topic, question: when programming for the newer windows, is
there a special/new API to make your program use aero, or does windows take
care of that automatically? Because I know some older programs run through
the desktop notification system or whatever it's called, where windows
notifies you of the program's dialogs, the program's interface does not
display...

HTH, D!J!X!

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donald Marang
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:51 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: jaws and seven:accessibility, settings, etc.

Aero will be hard for me to explain since it is the new visual style.  I can
not see or appreciate it even with magnification.  My artistic daughter
likes it. I am sure it is a waste of horsepower for almost all blind and
visually impaired users.  I think title bars are somewhat transparent. 
Older graphics hardware will not be able to support Aero.

Don Marang

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From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:38 PM
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: jaws and seven:accessibility, settings, etc.

> I don't have windows7 -- what is AERO?
> Thanks.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: jaws and seven:accessibility, settings, etc.
>
>
> I do not think there are any settings in either Windows 7 or Vista 
> that are required for JAWS.  I remember that XP did require several 
> setting changes for JAWS to work.  I do change several things for my 
> own preference.  Most of these are in the Folder options.  I prefer 
> the Details view in Windows Explorer.  In Windows 7, the details are 
> treated as a grid that can be navigated left and right as well as up 
> and down.  This makes it easy to check dates or size.  I think 
> Microsoft stole this concept from Linux.  I also set it to view hidden 
> files and extensions.  JAWS can not deal with Aero at this time.  JAWS 
> will turn this off automatically when started.
> However, if you install Windows 7 to a VMware virtual machine, it will 
> cause problems.  In this case, you need to turn off Aero.  The easiest 
> way to do this is to change the theme to Windows Classic.  Some people 
> can not get Windows 7 and JAWS to work in a virtual machine.  It just 
> randomly blue screens.
>
> Windows 7 works great with JAWS 11.  I certainly enjoy the new 
> features in Windows 7.
>
> Don Marang
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:03 AM
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: jaws and seven:accessibility, settings, etc.
>
>> Hello all,
>> I'm debating putting windows seven on my laptop, and was going to get 
>> jaws 11. I know in xp there were a few settings that made things work 
>> better, is it the same for seven? What sorts of things need to be set 
>> for accessibility?
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> http://tds-solutions.net
>> Twitter: sorressean
>>
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