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<DIV>Hi list to follow up on that posting regarding screen readers and windows
10 have been fiddling around with narrator to see just how good it is and it is
vastly improoved, but it isn’t a replacement for jaws or NVDA first the good
points. with the new scan feature you have the single letter navigation
like jaws or NVDA I easily navigated the TV listings email with windows live
mail. also managed to log into pandora with edge and poked around on
facebook. there is something you have to remember though. to type
into an edit field you must toggle off that scan mode. this is done as
mentioned in the posts from yesterday by the caps lock with the space bar.
now the down side. you still can’t quite navigate pandora using the arrows
and from what I observed I couldn’t see my stations list. will have to see
about firefox and or chrome or explorer. also another down side. if
narrator is engaged, music ducks. this is a farely new feature similar to
an Iphone where if you are on a skype call and you are playing music, the music
volume is lowered. well I tried both pandora and groove music and even
when groove music volume is 100 percent the sound is ducked whenever narrator is
engaged. also on pandora since they messed up to begin with by setting up
it’s commands around the arrow keys, you can’t turn up or down, you can’t thumbs
up or down a track or skip. clearly microsoft was in a rush to get people
off of windows 7, 8 and 8.1 but I think they were in to big a hurry.
haven’t yet tested the windows mail app with narrator but that is next.
other wise though windows 10 is much much improoved with the anniversary
update. the groove music app now has a radio component similar to
pandora. I haven’t yet figured out how to create my own personalized radio
stations and I don’t like the list of stations it shows. it’s all that hip
hop and modern pop that I don’t like all that much. hopefully it will be
in the future a way to listen to online radio stations the way windows media
player used to be. I think we’ll have to wait for the nexst jaws and NVDA
updates before blind/visually impared can really take advantage of the new
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