[Athen] Free version of Window Eyes

[Humbert, Joseph A]

Hi Ron,

I have installed and tested Window Eyes Free version on our test machine here at IU. Office 2010 was previously installed on the machine.  Window Eyes activated and worked just fine with office and with Web accessibility testing in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Thankx.

Sincerely,
Joe

Joe Humbert, Principal Accessibility Analyst
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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Jeffrey A Dell
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:03 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Free version of Window Eyes

Yes, it is based on personal experience.
If someone is running a full paid version of WindowEyes there would be little reason to install the free version unless their license is old and not eligible for upgrades.
 I have installed the program on the computers in my computer lab to start to learn WindowEyes and make it available to my students.  We run Office 2010 in our labs.  It worked well on our Surface Pro 2 with Office 2013 until a recent update caused it to lose the activation for Office.  Then I got the error mesage that at this time in the morning I cannot remember what the dialog said.
If you are wondering if it works with something liek Open Office as well as MS Office I cannot answer that because I do not use Open Office.  It does provide accessibility to more than Microsoft programs.  It is the full version of WindowEyes with the minor limitations stated in my last e-mail.  My experience with it so far has been running it with IE, Mozilla Firefox, and MS Ofice to learn its hotkeys since I am regularly a JAWS user.
Jeff
Sent from my iPhone.  please excuse errors from using Apple's dictation feature.

On Apr 29, 2014, at 2:41 AM, Ron <ronrstewart at gmail.com<mailto:ronrstewart at gmail.com>> wrote:
So is this based on personal experience? Sounds not, what is the basis of your comments? Your fails reflect my concerns, it came up with error messages...

Ron

On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Jeffrey A Dell <jeffreydell99 at gmail.com<mailto:jeffreydell99 at gmail.com>> wrote:
WindowEyes works just as well with private or institutional licensing for Microsoft office.
The only difference between the paid version and free version of window eyes is that it includes access to fewer voices, does not include the accessible Skype client, and does not include all the technical support.
The free version looks for the activation associated with your Microsoft 2010 or 2013 product. I had installed on a surface Pro two and for some reason the surface lost the activation for my office 2013. When I tried to load WindowEyes it came up with an error message that it could not find an activation and would not work
Jeff

Sent from my iPhone.  please excuse errors from using Apple's dictation feature.

On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Ron <ronrstewart at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ronrstewart at gmail.com');>> wrote:
Thanks I have read their marketing stuff.

I guess that brings up a secondary question, does it work easily as well with private licenses as institutional licensing?

Ron

On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Patrick Burke <burke at ucla.edu<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','burke at ucla.edu');>> wrote:
Hi Ron,

I don't have it installed, but iirc it is the full version of WindowEyes. It just checks for an MS Office license  when WinEyes starts up.

Patrick

At 09:43 PM 4/28/2014, Ron Stewart wrote:
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Hi all a question came up recently and I wanted to see if this informed group could provide input.  Does the free version of WindowEyes provide a full screen reader experience or is it limited to the MS Office Suite?  I have the full version and do not want to do a duplicate install if I do not have to.

Ron


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