I believe that JAWS and any level of Zoom will conflict and crash.
However, they can reside on the same machine but just not run together.
Norman Coombs
At 05:10 PM 2/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>About a month ago I posted a question about furniture and software we were
>tentatively planning to put in an adaptive technology lab in a new library.
>We were suggesting putting Jaws for Windows and ZoomText Extra Level 2 on
>our workstations.  I got one response that we might want to consider
>ZoomText Level 1if we are putting Jaws on the same workstation.  What's the
>collective wisdom on which would be a better combination of software?
>During a site visit to another library's adaptive technology lab, I made a
>note that ZoomText Extra and Jaws can't run simultaneously since they both
>use the same speech card.  If I remember correctly, that library purchased
>Jaws in addition to ZoomText Level 2 because it can voice text in dialogue
>boxes and highlighted buttons that ZoomText does not read.  If we did
>decide to downgrade the ZoomText software, how difficult is it to run
>ZoomText Level 1 and Jaws together?  Would we make things easier on our
>users to spring for the ZoomText Level 2?
>Thanks much!
>
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EASI's online workshop on accessible Web design,
Barrier-free Web Design, begins Feb. 22.
Making your Web pages accessible is the right thing to do,
and it is the law.  For information, go to
http://www.rit.edu/~easi and click on workshops.