[nfbcs] Ed Sharp versus Homer Editor & HTML Editors

[slery]

Can someone pass along the website for Ed sharp?

Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Ed Sharp versus Homer Editor & HTML Editors
> 
> 
> Joe,
> 
> I don't know if Jamal Mazrui is on this list or not, but he 
> may have comments to add to mine since he is the author of Ed 
> Sharp and Homer, and he may even 
> disagree with me which is fine.
> 
> I am only familiar with Homer as a set of scripts, and if it 
> is also an editor, it is likely far more basic than Ed Sharp. 
>  As scripts, Homer gives some of Jamal's programs a 
> uniform way to talk to screen readers and provides a sort of 
> common user interface.  There is both a JFW and Window-Eyes 
> version of Homer.
> 
> I have only a limited exposure to EdSharp, but it has a lot 
> of good features.  By all means, you should take a good look 
> at it and if you like it go with it.  I have not 
> used it a lot because I have found a number of text editors 
> to work pretty well for me including UltraEdit and NoteTab 
> Pro.  These two editors are not free, but they 
> have demos and are inexpensive.  I like the idea of using a 
> program whose primary function is to be a text editor which 
> is not as trivial an undertaking as one would 
> think.  At one point, I found some of EdSharp's features to 
> be more sluggish than say UltraEdit, but I do not think that 
> makes them unusable by any means.  In my 
> case, I was using UltraEdit long before EdSharp was 
> developed, so I was comparing it to an editor with which I 
> was very familiar.  That makes the comparison not 
> completely fair in some ways, and I just didn't find enough 
> reasons to switch.  
> 
> The bottom line here is that there are some good alternatives 
> to NotePad for text editing.  EdSharp has many good features 
> and has been written to send speech 
> responses directly to screen readers making its response very 
> predictable.  Also, many keystrokes have been added to do all 
> kinds of things that you might find very 
> convenient.  A program such as UltraEdit also has many 
> keystrokes built in, but certainly not all of the keyboard 
> functionality of EdSharp.  However, it has a pretty 
> good scripting language and scripts can be attached to 
> keystrokes so you can fairly easily create a keystroke that 
> you may find you need.  For my use, some of the 
> things that are built into Ed Sharp are just not things I do 
> often enough to remember the associated keystroke.
> 
> The point here is just to say that there are alternatives 
> that are quite accessible in addition to EdSharp, and many 
> are going to be superior to NotePad even as text 
> editors.  However, EdSharp has a lot to offer and the price 
> is right, and there is a strong commitment from the author to 
> fix problems that are discovered.  However, I 
> would at least take the time to compare feature lists to see 
> if there is anything that you see in other editors that you 
> really need.  At the very least, you can then lobby 
> with Jamal to add those features if EdSharp doesn't already have them.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve Jacobson
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:23:39 -0500, Joe Orozco wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> 
> >The subject line pretty much sums it up.  Can anyone shed 
> light on the 
> >difference between Ed Sharp and Homer Editor?  I was looking for an 
> >accessible HTML editor and came across both programs, downloaded Ed 
> >Sharp and found it to be far superior to NotePad.  Anyway, if anyone 
> >can help on distinguishing the two and then maybe offer some 
> >suggestions for an HTML editor, that would be great.  I've 
> been using 
> >NotePad for web design, and while I intend to stick to text 
> editors as 
> >my primary tool, I wouldn't mind the occasional break on redundant 
> >tags.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> >Joe Orozco
> 
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