Hi all,


I just read an article about accessibility improvements to the Windows 
10 anniversary update. It's posted here:

http://betanews.com/2016/07/02/windows-10-anniversary-update-accessibility/

My sense is that the writer of the article doesn't know anything about 
accessibility because he just sort of repeated that there will be lots 
of fantastic updates, then copied a bunch of stuff directly from Microsoft.


I'm curious about the new TTS engines. I currently use Microsoft David 
with NVDA. Speed aside, the TTS engine is sluggish. In other words, 
there's a little bit of a delay between the key press and the response. 
I don't really notice it when I'm reading email and poking around on the 
web, but I notice it a lot when I'm trying to get work done.

If anyone here is a beta tester, please report on that and on anything 
else that seems interesting. For example, it sounds like the keystrokes 
for Narrator have changed. But is there new functionality? My experience 
with Narrator now is that it's close to being a screen reader, but not 
quite a screen reader yet. Is it closer or about the same?

Thanks.

Ciao


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