[nfbcs] any experience with JAWES and open office

[Doug Lee]

2008 qualifies as "years ago" for what I originally said. :-)

I don't know if problems like this still occur. The very nature of
drivers required by JAWS has changed as Windows itself has changed.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Actually the first time this happened to me was at home.  The second time it
happened I was at work and had to go to the tech support office and assist
tech support.  Tech support ended up calling freedom scientific and freedom
scientific found out the video driver that was needed was in a version of jaws
not yet authorized for navy use.  So tech support ended up downloading the new
version and extracting all video driver files and updating the drivers on the
work computer then deleted the new version of jaws.  That if I remember
happened in 2008 and the first incident happened at home and I ended up buying
an early nversion of Window-eyes.  So long as Freedom Scientific persists in
failing to make all video drivers available downloadable as an additional
package for valid users gymnastics like this especially in security-sensitive
environments will continue to be necessary.

On Thu, 28 May 2015, Doug Lee via nfbcs wrote:

>Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 10:22:22
>From: Doug Lee via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>To: Jude DaShiell via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org>
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] any experience with JAWES and open office
>
>I know this sort of video trouble occurred years ago with JAWS, but I
>am not aware of any problems of that sort in modern versions of JAWS.
>There are issues with high-DPI laptops running old non-DPI-aware
>applications with JAWS or any other screen reader, but that's a
>different kettle of fish entirely.
>
>Do you know of any video drivers that do not work with JAWS 16?
>
>On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:02:31AM -0400, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
>It's entirely possible jaws won't work with that new computer once purchased.
>If the video driver is too new, jaws won't have anything available to talk
>with it so when a new computer gets bought be sure jaws already accommodates
>that driver before you get it home or else.
>
>On Mon, 25 May 2015, Aaron Cannon via nfbcs wrote:
>
>>Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:47:46
>>From: Aaron Cannon via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>Cc: Aaron Cannon <cannona at fireantproductions.com>,
>>   Graham Mehl <blind at trailstone.com>
>>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] any experience with JAWES and open office
>>
>>In my experience, NVDA works much better with OO than Jaws does.
>>
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>>>On May 25, 2015, at 16:41, Graham Mehl via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi NFB CS list members,
>>>
>>>Does anyone on this list have any experience with using JAWS and Open
>>>Office? Both my wife and father are sighted. My father swares Open office is
>>>the best thing since sliced cheese. My wife has tried to use it, and most
>>>things workes well. However, there are issues she has experience with it,
>>>like formatting. I am looking into buying a new computer. I believe I have a
>>>nice one picked out - Intel 7 processor with 8 GB of RAM and 1 TB hard drive
>>>and comes with Windows 8. I have JAWS 16.  On my new computer I am trying to
>>>decide if I should pay for the Microsoft suite (including Outlook), which I
>>>have used most of my life. Unfortunately, I am under an extremely tight
>>>budget. To help me make my decision, it would be nice to know how well JAWS
>>>works with Open Office?
>>>
>>>Thanks for your feedback in advance.
>>>
>>>-- graham
>>>
>>>blind at trailstone.com
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