[Athen] Windows Vista Keyboard shortcuts

[Berkowitz, Daniel J]

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

>Behalf Of 'Ron Stewart'

>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:03 AM

>To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

>Subject: Re: [Athen] Windows Vista Keyboard shortcuts

>

>Good morning,

>

>Here is an update as of yesterday afternoon from a variety of sources:

>

>GW does foresee any problems with their products,

>

>FS will release Vista compliant Betas at the end of the month probably

go

>to

>release at CSUN.  VISTA is requiring a total rewrite of their products

so

>expect a lot of issues early on, remember the Windows NT fiasco.  WYNN

is

>going to be a real problem so probably about a year out.  MAGIC has a

lot

>of

>other issues as well with compatibility with other AT but once they get

the

>JAWS issues dealt with, Magic typically is the next problem child.

>

>Dolphin (yes there is a third player that we need to remember!) does

not

>foresee a lot of issues, but projects a late stage beta by CSUN.

>

>Kurzweil has made no public announcements but expect K3000 to be at

least

>in

>Beta by CSUN, K1000 is always way behind and will have more issues to

deal

>with.

>

>AiSquared got bought this year so we will probably see some kind of

>tangible

>beta by CSUN.

>

>Scanner engine problems with both Omnipage and Abbyy, so all the

products

>that are based on the Abbyy engines will need to be upgraded to the

latest

>engine.

>

>

>

>Anyone else got some gossip to add to the pot.  Here is a reality check

as

>well, less than 15% of commercial organizations will migrate to VISTA

in

>2007, 25% of HE is planning on migrating, and at the Federal level it

may

>be

>a couple of years based on past history.

>

>Ron Stewart

>

>

>

>-----Original Message-----

>From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

>Behalf Of Pratik Patel

>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:46 AM

>To: ea at emptech.info; 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

>Subject: Re: [Athen] Windows Vista Keyboard shortcuts

>

>E.A., (with a copy to the list)

>

>Happy new year to you as well.

>

>	According to the public statements that Freedomscientific and GW

>Micro have made, screen reader updates will be released at

approximately

>the

>same time as Vista's expected launch--end of january.  I've been told

by

>Freedomscientific reps that Magic will be ready a few weeks after

vista's

>launch.  By that, I generally expect Magic timetable to be slightly

more

>delayed.  I would think that magic should be ready by csun.  I've not

heard

>anything about ZoomText and its expected readiness.  I am also not

familiar

>with dolphin's time table.  (Ron, can you comment?)

>

>Nuance expects to release a service pack update to Dragon 9 for Vista

>compatibility in late january.  Earlier versions of Dragon do not

expect to

>be supported.

>

>Institutions using Nuance's Omnipage 15 will have to purchase new

licenses

>for the product.  There will be no service releases for some reason.

>

>I posed the question to kurzweil about Kurzweils 1000 and 3000

>compatibility

>earlier today.  I'll let you know when I hear more.

>

>As I understand it, there will be an update to WYNN late summer to

early

>fall.

>

>As to a blog, stay tuned ... Where's Dan when we need him!

>

>I hope that's somewhat helpful.

>

>Regards,

>

>Pratik

>

>

>-----Original Message-----

>From: E.A. Draffan [mailto:ea at emptech.info]

>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:54 AM

>To: pratikp1 at gmail.com

>Subject: RE: [Athen] Windows Vista Keyboard shortcuts

>

>Thank you so much for this update - folks are getting a bit eager over

here

>to try Vista, but I have a feeling they need to wait and I wondered if

you

>knew of any blog or discussion that was advising about suitable

timescales

>for using Vista with screen readers and other A.T?

>

>Many thanks for your help and Happy New Year.

>

>

>Best Wishes E.A.

>

>Mrs E.A. Draffan

>Assistive Technologist

>Mobile: 07976 289103

>http://www.emptech.info/

>

>

>

>

>________________________________

>

>From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

>Behalf Of Pratik Patel

>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:08 PM

>To: pratikp1 at gmail.com; VICUG-L at LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG;

>blindtech at yahoogroups.com; 'Access Technologists in Higher Education

>Network'; 'Alternate Media'; access-l at access-l.com

>Subject: [Athen] Windows Vista Keyboard shortcuts

>

>

>Hello all,

>

>In anticipation of the upcoming Windows Vista operating system release,

>please see the following page to learn more about the keyboard

shortcuts

>that will be available in the new OS.

>

>

>Keyboard shortcuts

>URL:

>http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/2503b91d-d780-4c80-

>8f08-

>2f48878dc5661033.mspx

>

>Pratik patel

>

>

>

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