[gui-talk] Upgrade tool available for windows 7.

[James Pepper]

First you should not get into any new technology until you check out AFB
Tech's webpage and find out if they have tested it.  AFB Tech is the testing
arm of the American Foundation for the Blind.

The new accessibility featurees built into Windows 7 may work, they might
not work depending on what you have installed on your computer.  But the
shift in Microsoft is for the new ARIA standards for web design and
unfortunately most people do not know how to design for that standard.  So
that leaves the blind standing around waiting for this to be implemented and
if you upgrade, you will not be able to use you current stuff.

We already know that the new Internet Explorer does not work with JAWS 8,
has limited support for JAWS 9 and works sporatically with JAWS 10 and the
reports are now only coming in as to how good it works with JAWS 10.  This
information is from the Freedom Scientific Website.

You need to concentrate on what actually works and what may work in theory.
AFB Tech is made up of engineers who are blind and not blind and they
actually determine if things work and they test all sorts of devices,
software and computers.

Dolphin just came out with their new software today and they claim it will
work with the new Windows 7.  It may, it may not, you have to get things
tested to make sure.  Also the Jeringan Institute tests technology at the
National Federation of the Blind.

James

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM, albert griffith <
albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Many people are interested in it but they're of the tech variety.  There's
> been a list created for it too.  There's no reason for anyone to upgrade
> until it's released and then not for a year or so.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:57 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>  Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Upgrade tool available for windows 7.
>
> Al,
>
> do you know of any regular, published article in a print or online magazine
> that introduces Windows 7 and explains which computer users have to install
> it, whether they feel like it or not? For instance, must Vista users like
> you upgrade or lose something in the way of capability? And do XP Home SP3
> users like mine have to think about it at all until we buy our next
> computer
>
> with a new model chip of some sort?
>
> thanks. Or do we have to find out about this new O.S. pit by bit, no pun
> intended, through sporadic threads on various tech support email lists like
> this one? Do you think, for instance, that Blind Tech is using most of its
> 2,000 or so posts per day discussing this operating system, instead of the
> usual obsessions like the Roomba vacuum cleaner or the Creative Zen Stone
> and whether it's really the ZenStone or the Zen Stone and where did such a
> name come from, anyway? No, I don't want to discuss that. I get it. Just
> saying, is someone talking about Windows 7 and we're just missing the
> action
>
> here for some reason?
>
> Me, sleepy? tired? Acting a little goofy? So shoot me.
> ? ?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:56 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] Upgrade tool available for windows 7.
>
>
> I just read Microsoft has published an upgrade tool for Windows 7.  It's on
> the Ms. Site probably with the windows 7 stuff.
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