The problem is vista is crap apart from all the accessibility probs there
are many programs that wont run on it packet programs, the streaming
programs I use wont basically anything that is not either a mail client word
processor or web browser or not Microsoft has problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lou Kline
Sent: 31 May 2007 05:31
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
Hi Jeff.
Yes, the patch is JAWS version 8.0.1163, or 8.0.1177, or 8.0.2107. By the
way, I have things that I like and dislike about the last two. JAWS
8.0.1177 broke support for 16 Bit apps like the Icom programming software,
which was fixed in JAWS 8.0.2107, but 8.0.2107 broke reading of active
appointments on the Outlook 2003 Calendar (I haven't tested it with Outlook
2000 or Outlook XP as I've already abandoned these versions).
Looking at the technical bulletins from GW Micro, things aren't completely
smooth sailing with Windows Vista or Office 2007 over there, either, but
they got on their feet a lot more quickly. I may be all wet, but I suspect
that the problem that Freedom Scientific is having is in the way they
sample information to be spoken. I suspect that they have a more difficult
challenge in trying to get JAWS to read Vista properly, and still maintain
backwards compatibility to older operating systems. I think they are doing
a lot of tweaking to get all of that to work, and I bet it is a busy time
for their scripters down there.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 08:51 PM 5/29/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>WHat about Vista and JAWS? I had heard back in December that Vista
>wouldn't work even with JAWS 8, but that a patch or something would come
>out later on this year?
>
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, 29 May 2007, Lou Kline wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Even if it will work with a plug in, do you really think that all of his
> > students are going to get the plug in? For that matter, they could save
> > their stuff as Rich text, and then you could open it on anything, but
you
> > probably couldn't get half of them to save it that way...
> >
> > This is not an unprecedented problem, either. While mostly compatible,
we
> > definitely did run into some minor compatibility issues between Office
2003
> > and Office 2000 at my workplace.
> >
> > My guess is that you are going to have to do some reading about how to
use
> > Office 2007 from the keyboard. I don't know if Freedom Scientific has
much
> > material on using Office 2007 yet. They may, because I haven't looked
for
> > it yet. One sneaky way to do it would be to look through the stuff on
MS
> > Word in GW Micro's materials, and by sorting out the Word commands from
the
> > Window-Eyes commands, you might be able to figure out how the thing
> > works. I suspect that in six months, Office 2007 won't seem any worse
than
> > Office 2003 does now. It's probably just a matter of learning a new set
of
> > techniques.
> >
> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> >
> > At 03:25 PM 5/29/2007 -0400, you wrote:
> > >I was told in 1 of my classes that you can but you need a plug in for
> 2003,
> > >and another person said not at all. I have yet to try it. I just
installed
> > >2007 last week.
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:13 PM
> > >Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
> > >
> > >
> > > > John:
> > > >
> > > > If you prepare a document on your Office 2007 machine, can it be
> read on
> > > > an
> > > > Office 2003 machine?
> > > >
> > > > I have been told that when I e-mail someone a document on the
> office 2007
> > > > machine, it cannot be opened by someone who has Office 2003.
> > > >
> > > > Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:49 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> I'm running office 2007 in windows XP.
> > > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > > >> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:36 PM
> > > >> Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> They may be right, because often times things are downward
compatible
> > > >>> but
> > > >>> not necessarily upward compatible. Like you may be able to read
> > > >>> documents
> > > >>> in previously produced versions, but not always in updated
versions.
> > > >>> But
> > > >>> I
> > > >>> wonder if Office 2007 works in XP or if it is designed to work
> only in
> > > >>> Vista.
> > > >>> Harvey
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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5/29/2007
> > >1:01 PM
> >
> > Louis Kim Kline
> > A.R.S. K2LKK
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> >
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>3:03 PM
Louis Kim Kline
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