[vip_students] Re: Preview of Narrator in Windows 8

  • From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:46:52 +0000

Sometimes Firefox can bring a more positive result. Ironic that it would not 
download in the Microsoft product.-----Original message-----
From: Cearbhall O'Meadhra
Sent:  25/09/2011, 4:43  pm
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Preview of Narrator in Windows 8



Aedan and Eleanor,

Amazing! I tried to open the mp3 file in Internet Explorer 8 with Jaws 10
and it simply slowed down until it stopped at 38% and never went any
further. Then I switched to Mozilla Firefox (latest version) and the file
started to play almost immediately. How do you explain that? 

Anyway, I listened to the podcast and was very impressed. The voice quality
is excellent in the new Narrator. I agree with the presenter that it looks
as though it is trying to match VoiceOver in its management of the voice
keys.  It sounds very useful indeed.


All the best,


Cearbhall 

T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 25 September 2011 15:14
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Preview of Narrator in Windows 8

Not Paul but try this. 
http://candleshoreblog.com/mark/podcasts/EP100-WindowsDevPreview.mp3
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cearbhall O'Meadhra" <omeadhrac@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 2:57 PM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Preview of Narrator in Windows 8


> Paul,
>
> Did you manage to download the podcast? I could nto get it.
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Cearbhall
>
> T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of (NCBI) Paul 
> Traynor
> Sent: 25 September 2011 14:48
> To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vip_students] Re: Preview of Narrator in Windows 8
>
> Hi Aedan,
>
> Nice one, I am interested in this as it is reported that Microsoft is 
> going
> to include a full screen reader in Windows 8 so any info on this is
> valuable.
>
> Paul.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aedan O'Meara
> Sent: 25 September 2011 10:33
> To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vip_students] Preview of Narrator in Windows 8
>
> Hi all,
> I came on this on the Access-uk list:
> Some of you might be interested in a preview of Narrator in Windows 8 due
> out some time later. The link to this demo is
>
http://mark.candleshoreblog.com/2011/09/23/ep100-a-demonstration-of-windows-
> 8-developer-preview-accessibility/
>
<http://mark.candleshoreblog.com/2011/09/23/ep100-a-demonstration-of-windows
> -8-developer-preview-accessibility/>
>
> The quality of the voice is excellent and functionality is greatly 
> improved.
> As someone on the access-uk list commented: i wonder how long it will be
> before the commercial screen reader providers will take to object to this!
>
> Kind regards
> Aedan.
>
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