Hi Michael, Ok, we are beginning to get off topic here, but I'll address your concerns quickly as a matter of info since you braught them up and then drop the topic.
First, the commercial screen readers Hal, Window-Eyes, Jaws try to support what they see as the most common web browser, e-mail client, office sweit, etc going for Windows. Since Jaws and Window-Eyes's goal is job access with speech they naturally tend to support applications you are likely to find in a job environment like MS Office, Internet Explorer, and so on. Something like Lebre Office may be free, should be supported, but if its not being supported by companies and corperations the screen reader developers tend to make accessibility for that application a low priority. Second, Other issues abount with languages like Java and Flash because they don't use the native Windows toolkits like the Windows API which makes getting access to the application written in that language difficult. If I write an app in Java using the swing graphics toolkit I have to get at that graphics toolkit through a third-party API, the Java accessibility bridge, which reports what is on screen to the screen reader being used where normally the screen reader would obtain that information from the Windows API itself. If something like Flash doesn't have an access bridge and doesn't talk to the Windows API directly then the application isn't going to be able to brodcast onscreen information to the screen reader being used. Finally, how Jaws handles the Real Speak voices has nothing to do with Freedom Scientific. Scansoft has changed the licenses for their voices, no longer offer Sapi 5 versions of their voices, and they are now integrated directly into an application. That's why the Real Speak voices on the Jaws site only work with Jaws and not anything else. HTH On 8/14/11, Michael Gauler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I know that many people here in Germany are considering to leave JAWS > behind and are going to switch to something else very soon or have already > done so. > But I would like it if some things were adressed in all screen readers. > While it is nice to have current MS Office support, I wish they would find a > way to adress other things, namely full access to all window and object > designs in all forms of Java and part Java applications and I do not mean > OpenOffice.org exclusively. > Same goes for web content created with Silverlight. > I had to use a professional website regularly for one year where Silverlight > was inded present and we had only JAWS 10 and XP SP3 and of course the > damnable Internet Explorer 8 which regularly crashed when pressing the tab > key apparently at the wrong time to move out of the adress bar when pressing > enter on a manually entered adress did not move the cursor and focus back > automatically into the website when it was loaded... > But I am going to far. > Flash and Shockwave are as old as Windows itself, and most screen readers > can only handle Flash embeded into an HTML file. But make an non graphical > Flash file which displays "hello world" and make the SWF file into a > standalone EXE and Bye screen reader. From oldest 3.0 modules up to > current... > I'll stop ranting here, I think you will understand now. > But one last thing I'll say about JAWS: I hate the way they deal with the > RealSpeak voices, allthough I think Nuance is to blame for this... > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
