I've never had good experiences with Windows, JAWS, or NVDA touch gestures.
I used to have a Windows 10 computer where the monitor was the touch screen
and I couldn't get she same accuracy I can from IOS. The one and only time I
tried Windows gestures on a Surface computer in a Microsoft store the
Surface crashed.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't gotten good support from Freedom
Scientific with regard to touch interaction. It seems like they reluctantly
support it. I haven't tried Narrator so I can't comment on it.
Dan
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Hi, Jeff.
While I don't use it anymore I think I needed the touch cursor with
Kaspersky Antivirus as navigating with the tab key was rarely providing me
with any speech feedback. However, I admit that when I need to review the
screen in the Windows Security Center I find myself using the touch cursor
rather than the JAWS cursor. I'm not sure why I started doing this but since
the JAWS cursor isn't always available and the touch cursor will pretty much
always work I'd rather use what works rather than something which might or
might not behave as expected.
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Hi David, and thanks for the information. I know that with a lot of
programs it's a matter of trial and error, but what programs have you had
use for the touch cursor?
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Hi. The touch cursor is something that I often rely on and which I have had
good success in using although not with the particular program which you
mentioned. Users who only use standard software such as Edge, Word and
Outlook likely won't need to rely on the touch cursor that much, if at all.
However, some programs might not make good use of the PC cursor and some
don't offer good keyboard support, at all. Also, sometimes the JAWS cursor
doesn't work as expected in later versions of Windows. In cases such as
these the touch cursor can make an otherwise inaccessible screen or even an
inaccessible app somewhat if not totally accessible.
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Hi everyone, I've been experimenting with the TOuch Cursor in JAWS with
sentinel, which is a radio scanner programming software. For the most part
it is accessible with a few exceptions. I can tab through the things that I
normally would miss with just the PC cursor, but can't activate anything.
What have others luck been with the Touch Cursor?
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