thought list members might be interested in the following info:
the  magic 8 press release as do many other freedom scientific materials
claim windows ME compliance however a colleague of mine recently contacted
their tech support over some problems he was having running the latest
version of jaws on windows ME.
after much to-ing and frowe-ing freedom scientific admitted they couldn't
simulate the problems he was having as they didn't have a single windows ME
machine.

is it just me who wonders how they can claim compliance if they don't even
own a copy of windows ME to test on?

Adrian Higginbotham,
SURFACE
Salford University, Research Focus on AcCessible Environments.
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tel: 0161-2954939
fax: 0161-2955011

web: http://www.scpm.salford.ac.uk/surface/

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Verhoeven <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: Maigc 8 with speech for Windows 9x/Me released!


> Dear list members,
>
> Freedom Scientific (Hneter-Joyce in the past), has released MAGic 8 for
> Windows 95/98/ME.
>
> This is the first MAGic release, that like LunarPlus, LP-Windows with
> speech and ZoomText level 2, include low vision screen reading (speech
> support).
>
> MAGic 8 is a professional screen magnifier, that magnifies all your
Windows
> 9x/ME applications from 2 to 16 times in any display resolution up to 32
> color depth.
>
> Important magnification options:
>
> - 7 different magnification modes;
> - Independent mouse magnification;
> - Very good font smoothing;
> - Very good tracking on Windows events;
> - Easy manual scrolling or panning by using your keyboard;
> - Color filtering;
> - Advanced mouse setinng options.
>
> Important speech options:
>
> - Speak aloud most Windows events like menus, controls and dialog boxes;
> - Typing echo and mouse echo;
> - Document Read to speak aloud E-Mail messages, documents and web pages.
>
> Nice in MAGic is, that it reads table column by column. A lot of web pages
> on the Internet include tables for layout reasons and other screen
> magnifiers read tables row by row. Reading column by column highly
improves
> accessibility to web pages.
>
> All software products include known and unknown bugs. MAGic 8 include some
> major known bugs  that will be solved in future patches.
>
> For more details about MAGic 8 features, known bugs and a free demo please
> visit The Screen Magnifiers Homepage at
>
> http://www.magnifiers.org
>
> And follow the links there.
>
> Regards Peter Verhoeven
>