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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Mohamed
Actually I think that registry hack gave you updates for Windows Embedded POS Ready, a version of XP that is primarily used in ATMs and the like, which is I think still being supported but will itself lose support this year if it hasn't already, not the updates governments are paying for.
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On 3/11/2019 8:09 AM, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io wrote:
Yes Our nhs and the folk who used into in ATMs paid for updates, and there was a registry hack to pretend to be one of the latter at the time and freeload off the back of that.
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Re: NVDA for Android and IOS
Vytautas Ziedelis
Sorry if this comment seems a bit off topic, I understand that but the reason for this is very important. Please read below and you understand why
Hello dear group members, I am looking for people who finished or currently attending higher education. I am doing a research for my 4th year project that involves analysis of experiences in higher education for blind and visually impaired individuals.
It is a questionnaire type of research, I totally get it if you think that not today, or someone else will do it, I'm really asking you to do it, because this research is very important,
I know answering survey questions is in the best time spent and it is annoying however please, please provide your feedback.
I struggled in higher education myself for 4 years, but I am finally in the 4th year last semester. of my IT course. From my own experience I understand that many blind and visually impaired individuals have a hard time while studying in higher education due to the various reasons related to visual requirements of the course or support and understanding from the lecturers.
That is exactly the reason for this project, and therefore every answer is very important not for my project only, but also for all of us.
Some of you may answered this questionnaire before because it was posted before , however it is a new survey because I screwed that previous survey, I had to fix the mistakes in the old one. And the outcome is that I had to create a new survey because platform didn't allow to modified the questions.
If you answered this survey previously I really appreciate that please do it again because I am lacking responses for the new one I had 44 in the previous one and a new one has only 11 responses thus far.
thank you very much for your help I really appreciate that, it is a tough job getting responses to the surveys, because I am aware that people like to skip them and understand why because it seems uninteresting, but this 1 I think is important for blind and visually impaired community I designed that myself and that comes from my own experiences.
I am Leaving the link below so you can participate in find more about the questionnaire
http://bit.ly/2tZaHse
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Hi, Don't worry, I'm still in vacation. I just happen to come across a note taped to the lab door asking for clarifications about a few things. Answers:
Cheers, Joseph
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Vytautas Ziedelis
Sorry if this comment seems a bit off topic, I understand that but the reason for this is very important. Please read below and you understand why
Hello dear group members, I am looking for people who finished or currently attending higher education. I am doing a research for my 4th year project that involves analysis of experiences in higher education for blind and visually impaired individuals.
It is a questionnaire type of research, I totally get it if you think that not today, or someone else will do it, I'm really asking you to do it, because this research is very important,
I know answering survey questions is in the best time spent and it is annoying however please, please provide your feedback.
I struggled in higher education myself for 4 years, but I am finally in the 4th year last semester. of my IT course. From my own experience I understand that many blind and visually impaired individuals have a hard time while studying in higher education due to the various reasons related to visual requirements of the course or support and understanding from the lecturers.
That is exactly the reason for this project, and therefore every answer is very important not for my project only, but also for all of us.
Some of you may answered this questionnaire before because it was posted before , however it is a new survey because I screwed that previous survey, I had to fix the mistakes in the old one. And the outcome is that I had to create a new survey because platform didn't allow to modified the questions.
If you answered this survey previously I really appreciate that please do it again because I am lacking responses for the new one I had 44 in the previous one and a new one has only 11 responses thus far.
thank you very much for your help I really appreciate that, it is a tough job getting responses to the surveys, because I am aware that people like to skip them and understand why because it seems uninteresting, but this 1 I think is important for blind and visually impaired community I designed that myself and that comes from my own experiences.
I am Leaving the link below so you can participate in find more about the questionnaire
http://bit.ly/2tZaHse
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Re: Invisible Dropbox pop-ups
Vytautas Ziedelis
Sorry if this comment seems a bit off topic, I understand that but the reason for this is very important. Please read below and you understand why
Hello dear group members, I am looking for people who finished or currently attending higher education. I am doing a research for my 4th year project that involves analysis of experiences in higher education for blind and visually impaired individuals.
It is a questionnaire type of research, I totally get it if you think that not today, or someone else will do it, I'm really asking you to do it, because this research is very important,
I know answering survey questions is in the best time spent and it is annoying however please, please provide your feedback.
I struggled in higher education myself for 4 years, but I am finally in the 4th year last semester. of my IT course. From my own experience I understand that many blind and visually impaired individuals have a hard time while studying in higher education due to the various reasons related to visual requirements of the course or support and understanding from the lecturers.
That is exactly the reason for this project, and therefore every answer is very important not for my project only, but also for all of us.
Some of you may answered this questionnaire before because it was posted before , however it is a new survey because I screwed that previous survey, I had to fix the mistakes in the old one. And the outcome is that I had to create a new survey because platform didn't allow to modified the questions.
If you answered this survey previously I really appreciate that please do it again because I am lacking responses for the new one I had 44 in the previous one and a new one has only 11 responses thus far.
thank you very much for your help I really appreciate that, it is a tough job getting responses to the surveys, because I am aware that people like to skip them and understand why because it seems uninteresting, but this 1 I think is important for blind and visually impaired community I designed that myself and that comes from my own experiences.
I am Leaving the link below so you can participate in find more about the questionnaire
http://bit.ly/2tZaHse
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
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thanks brian
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Re: Invisible Dropbox pop-ups
Dave Grossoehme
Good Morning: I read this information a little late. However, I check notifications, which are in settings and the notification for Drop Box is uncheck. Dave
On 2/25/2019 5:10 AM, Gene wrote:
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:55 AM, Kerryn Gunness wrote:
and also it is using NVDA to do itThanks for your clarification not only about specific need, but about using NVDA with said ripper software. We get lots of questions about software recommendations in general that there's not a single question about how to use them with NVDA (even though I presume that's how they're being used). Sometimes it's just obvious how to use them with a screen reader and sometimes it's not. Also, sometimes conversations are intended to focus on deep discussion of the feature set of a given piece of software, and all its keyboard shortcuts and the like. When it's pretty much strictly in that vein, it's really not NVDA related, either. I doubt that there will ever be a case where there is 100% purity with regard to "is NVDA involved," but those framing their questions know whether the thrust of what they want to discuss relates to using NVDA with a given piece of software or just about the other software itself. One could, for instance, have a weeks-long conversation regarding using Microsoft Office without ever once mentioning a screen reader command (though the occasional mention is almost certain to occur). Good luck in finding a solution that "plays well" with NVDA. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
It baffles me why nobody has shared the official blog post, but here it is, from Microsoft. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-support-will-end-on-january-14-2020
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
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thanks dan
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
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hi
If, by rip, you mean transferring to computer
storage for later viewing, that's something else entirely. Ripping
generally refers to doing this, but it's unclear here.
i mean above and also it is using NVDA to do
it
thanks for clarifying
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
If, by rip, you mean copy, then I don't know of any. Copy protections on DVDs is significantly tighter than on CDs, for example, which have been easily duplicated for years.
If, by rip, you mean transferring to computer storage for later viewing, that's something else entirely. Ripping generally refers to doing this, but it's unclear here. Also, even though I'm responding, I'm going to start making a point of the fact that topics such as this one, which have nothing to do with NVDA either directly or indirectly, should be started on the chat subgroup, not here. As there is not, as yet, a move function I'm allowing these to stay, for the moment, but in the coming weeks will be locking them and asking that people initiate any topic where the answer to the question, "Is this about using NVDA to accomplish some task or about configuring NVDA?," is, "No," in the chat subgroup. We have the privilege of a community arrangement where anyone in the community can ask about anything "not NVDA" or discuss pretty much anything in a dedicated venue where other community members can choose to join if they wish. The main group needs to come back to a much tighter NVDA focus, and will. For those who have not yet subscribed to the chat subgroup here, again, are the addresses for that subgroup:
Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Dan Beaver
Yes, but maybe someone else on here can tell you about them. I am not up to date on them.
Dan On 3/11/2019 10:19 AM, Kerryn Gunness
via Groups.Io wrote:
-- Dan Beaver (KC4DOY)
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Re: Zoomtext and nvda
One thing I'll point out here, and it's related to magnification in general, is that it has its limits and they get hit relatively quickly.
For anyone who's had sight and used same for reading, we do not read letter by letter or even word by word, processing tends to take place in multi-word chunks at a time and we also possess a lot of predictive ability (and that applies regardless of reading modality) based on context. I have had clients for whom magnification on a standard (and by standard I even mean large, but that would be used as a typical monitor) monitor needed to be boosted so much that by the time they could use the magnified version it robbed them of the needed linguistic context. In this age of very large screen TVs, coupled with either HDMI output from the computer itself or casting ability (though the latter is more of a pain), it is well worth considering whether using a large screen TV as a monitor is the better way to go. The can be positioned such that they're where a monitor would be, if that proves to be preferable in the first place, and everything ends up magnified by default, preserving context. Even if you have to magnify some, a tiny bit of magnification for "the normal monitor" translates into quite a bit more when it's displayed on a big-screen TV. I learned all of this when I had to get creative with a client who had macular degeneration but who still wasn't ready to give up reading with her residual vision, and for whom no amount of magnification on "the small screen" produced a result that would allow that. We ended up putting her big screen TV on an articulating wall mount, which allowed her to pull it away from the wall and down when she needed to use it as a monitor. Also a cheap UHD TV, which would be more than adequate for purpose, is far cheaper than most things in the world of accessibility are. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
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thanks dan, but is there any free
software?
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:09 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:
As Joseph seems to have to keep on updating the essentials add on the changes have to be significant.Joseph can (and will) certainly jump in on this himself, but what I've observed suggests that these updates were far less about Windows 10, per se, than staging for future NVDA development. The last update was at the end of last September and is noted for NVDA 2018.3 to 2019.1. Add-On Updater seems to be in constant spin as other add-ons "jump on the bandwagon" that allow it to work with it, and that's separate from Windows 10, per se, too. I'm sure I'll be corrected, and accept it, if I'm wrong. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Dan Beaver
Hi,
I use a program called freemakeVC. I bought the upgrade
version because it works faster and some of the features seem
to be more accessible. This program takes some playing with to
get used to the parts that are not quite accessible but once you
learn it it is easy to use.
I use it for DVD ripping and burning. I also use it to convert audio files to other formats.
Dan Beaver On 3/11/2019 10:04 AM, Kerryn Gunness
via Groups.Io wrote:
-- Dan Beaver (KC4DOY)
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o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
hi friends
do you all no of a program to wripp dvd's
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Re: NVDA for Android and IOS
What people need to remember here is that accessibility software, regardless of platform, has generally arisen due to a couple of factors, with different emphases:
It is no surprise that Windows, the world's most widely used computing platform, has more than its share of screen readers because all of the above have been at play with the various players in the field at one point or another. I leave it to you, the reader, to decide which were bigger factors for each product. Factor #1 is utterly lacking on iOS and Android. Whether one likes VoiceOver or TalkBack, both are fully mature products that do their job admirably. There can almost certainly be nothing as far as factors numbers one through three are concerned in these environments, and given the degree of maturity and broad acceptance of what is already available, factor number four has almost zero impact. Who's going to hail "the next VoiceOver/TalkBack"? Not many, that's for darned sure. There are limited resources for implementing accessibility software, both monetary and otherwise. It makes absolutely no sense to try to open a market that's not really a market in the first place. Choices have to be made, and the probability of an entity that has the history of NVAccess doing a radical gear shift to other platforms makes very little sense from virtually any angle. My dear departed Aunt Lila used to quote a rather salty old relative of hers when people brought up wishes such as this, that have all the odds stacked against them, and for good reason, "Wish in one hand, s*^t in the other, and see which gets full first." That sums up my thoughts about the feasibility and likelihood of NVDA leaping across computing ecosystems. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
That's why I only use Windows Defender.
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It does get the job done and don't cause me any trouble. Just wonderful I'd say. Em 11/03/2019 09:16, Shaun Everiss
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To be honest with exception of bgt, antimalware tools seem to go after a lot of blindness related programs for no reason I can see.
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