[Athen] Free version of Window Eyes

[Russell Solowoniuk]

One more thing to add to this discussion... you can purchase additional
voices for the free version of Window-Eyes.  I bought the Eloquence
voices for $59 Canadian, and the Vocalizer Expressive voices for $79.  I
am also a Jaws user, so, haven't played around too much yet with
Window-Eyes, but, it does seem to work quite well, and, it will work in
all programs where Jaws or the full version of Window-Eyeswill work.

Thanks,

Russell

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>>> "Ron Stewart" <ron at ahead.org> 4/29/2014 9:13 AM >>>

Thanks all, your input has been very helpful.

 

Ron

 

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On Behalf Of Humbert, Joseph A
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Free version of Window Eyes

 

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

 

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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> 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>
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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