Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
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-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca. On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote: hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
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*From: *David <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, December 5, 2016 3:12 PM *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject: *Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever
anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.")
So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software:
* if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved
* if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an
idiosyncratic problem with your own system
I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc.
I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a
detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this.
--
*Brian*
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you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
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-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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i realy wish and request that dont stop supporting of xp.
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On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10
*From: *David <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, December 5, 2016 3:12 PM *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject: *Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever
anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.")
So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software:
* if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved
* if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an
idiosyncratic problem with your own system
I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc.
I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a
detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this.
--
*Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
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-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Ph +61 7 3149 3306 Direct: +61 413 904 383 www.nvaccess.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
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-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Hi, The following may come across as a bit hard to swallow, but please bear with me: A building that began to crumble from its foundation will soon collapse completely, but one can save many lives by evacuating its occupants in an orderly fashion. Personally, I believe that we should prepare to say goodbye to XP soon, but do understand reasons why we should continue to accept patrons who comes from XP. In the old days, technology was a slow-moving car, but today, it is like a dew - fresh in the beginning, but dries up shortly after. This will accelerate more in coming months and years (for Windows 10 users, have you asked why there are two major upgrades in a span of one year?). In case of XP support, one of the crucial components NVDA uses is written for latest Visual Studio in mind, and if this component moves to drop support for XP, NV Access will need to choose between moving on or keeping old version alive. Another thing to consider is the fact that newer Python versions dropped support for XP, and this is an even bigger issue, given that some developers want to move to Python 3. Ultimately, the mindset of screen reader users will determine to what extent NVDA and other screen readers will support XP and for how long. Cheers, Joseph
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-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:54 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease i realy wish and request that dont stop supporting of xp. On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
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Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever
anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.")
So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software:
* if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved
* if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an
idiosyncratic problem with your own system
I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc.
I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a
detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this.
--
*Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
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-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Ph +61 7 3149 3306 Direct: +61 413 904 383 www.nvaccess.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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joseph, did you mean supporting of xp is depending on the programming language that you use? which version of python do you use now?
and did python 3 stop support of xp? how about visual studio? does visual studio 2015 that now you use, support xp and since which version of studio supporting of xp is stopped?
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On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, The following may come across as a bit hard to swallow, but please bear with me: A building that began to crumble from its foundation will soon collapse completely, but one can save many lives by evacuating its occupants in an orderly fashion. Personally, I believe that we should prepare to say goodbye to XP soon, but do understand reasons why we should continue to accept patrons who comes from XP. In the old days, technology was a slow-moving car, but today, it is like a dew - fresh in the beginning, but dries up shortly after. This will accelerate more in coming months and years (for Windows 10 users, have you asked why there are two major upgrades in a span of one year?). In case of XP support, one of the crucial components NVDA uses is written for latest Visual Studio in mind, and if this component moves to drop support for XP, NV Access will need to choose between moving on or keeping old version alive. Another thing to consider is the fact that newer Python versions dropped support for XP, and this is an even bigger issue, given that some developers want to move to Python 3. Ultimately, the mindset of screen reader users will determine to what extent NVDA and other screen readers will support XP and for how long. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:54 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
i realy wish and request that dont stop supporting of xp.
On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
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*From: *David <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, December 5, 2016 3:12 PM *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject: *Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever
anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.")
So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software:
* if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved
* if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an
idiosyncratic problem with your own system
I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc.
I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a
detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this.
--
*Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
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-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Ph +61 7 3149 3306 Direct: +61 413 904 383 www.nvaccess.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Hi, Mostly have to do with components NVDA uses. As for Python and other technical matters, I think it is a bit advanced for many, so let's move it to development list. Cheers, Joseph
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-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 6:07 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease joseph, did you mean supporting of xp is depending on the programming language that you use? which version of python do you use now? and did python 3 stop support of xp? how about visual studio? does visual studio 2015 that now you use, support xp and since which version of studio supporting of xp is stopped? On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, The following may come across as a bit hard to swallow, but please bear with me: A building that began to crumble from its foundation will soon collapse completely, but one can save many lives by evacuating its occupants in an orderly fashion. Personally, I believe that we should prepare to say goodbye to XP soon, but do understand reasons why we should continue to accept patrons who comes from XP. In the old days, technology was a slow-moving car, but today, it is like a dew - fresh in the beginning, but dries up shortly after. This will accelerate more in coming months and years (for Windows 10 users, have you asked why there are two major upgrades in a span of one year?). In case of XP support, one of the crucial components NVDA uses is written for latest Visual Studio in mind, and if this component moves to drop support for XP, NV Access will need to choose between moving on or keeping old version alive. Another thing to consider is the fact that newer Python versions dropped support for XP, and this is an even bigger issue, given that some developers want to move to Python 3. Ultimately, the mindset of screen reader users will determine to what extent NVDA and other screen readers will support XP and for how long. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:54 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
i realy wish and request that dont stop supporting of xp.
On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
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*From: *David <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, December 5, 2016 3:12 PM *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject: *Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever
anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.")
So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software:
* if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved
* if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an
idiosyncratic problem with your own system
I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc.
I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a
detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this.
--
*Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Ph +61 7 3149 3306 <%2B61%207%203149%203306> Direct: +61 413 904 383 <+61%20413%20904%20383> www.nvaccess.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
.
-- Quentin Christensen Training Material Developer Basic Training for NVDA & Microsoft Word with NVDA E-Books now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Ph +61 7 3149 3306 Direct: +61 413 904 383 www.nvaccess.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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I really do not understand how anyone can expect active support, as opposed to passive (as in, the last version compatible with XP being available for download as legacy and no longer actively maintained), for Windows XP. The operating system has not been supported by Microsoft for years now. It's just by sheer luck (and some effort, but not intentional in many cases) that a lot of software has remained able to be run under XP but was developed for a later version of Windows. Operating systems have finite lifespans. The finite lifespan of XP as an actively supported system ended a long, long time ago. I own a Windows XP laptop, Windows 7 laptop, three Windows 10 machines (2 laptops and 1 desktop), and a Linux box. I am under no delusion that any support of any meaningful kind can be expected for Windows XP. Also, I have carried forward a lot of non-screen-reader software that I liked from the XP era that still runs like a top under Windows 10. One example of that is Microsoft Photo Editor, which deals with creating transparency more easily than any other photo editor I've ever used. There are a number of others as well. I would really like to hear what people have under XP that they've tried running under a later version of Windows that doesn't work either with native Windows or using compatibility mode, which I've not had to do for anything, yet. -- Brian Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~ Lauren Bacall
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i wish that all my favorite programs support all operating systems and i have freedom of my choice to select them.
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On 12/6/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: I really do not understand how anyone can expect active support, as opposed to passive (as in, the last version compatible with XP being available for download as legacy and no longer actively maintained), for Windows XP. The operating system has not been supported by Microsoft for years now. It's just by sheer luck (and some effort, but not intentional in many cases) that a lot of software has remained able to be run under XP but was developed for a later version of Windows.
Operating systems have finite lifespans. The finite lifespan of XP as an actively supported system ended a long, long time ago.
I own a Windows XP laptop, Windows 7 laptop, three Windows 10 machines (2 laptops and 1 desktop), and a Linux box. I am under no delusion that any support of any meaningful kind can be expected for Windows XP. Also, I have carried forward a lot of non-screen-reader software that I liked from the XP era that still runs like a top under Windows 10. One example of that is Microsoft Photo Editor, which deals with creating transparency more easily than any other photo editor I've ever used. There are a number of others as well. I would really like to hear what people have under XP that they've tried running under a later version of Windows that doesn't work either with native Windows or using compatibility mode, which I've not had to do for anything, yet. -- *Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 07:07 am, nasrin khaksar wrote: i wish that all my favorite programs support all operating systems and i have freedom of my choice to select them. This has never, ever been the case and never will be. The moment an OS developer officially ends active support for a given OS that means that third-party support for applications for same will soon follow. Given the number of really gross security holes in Windows XP that exist only because it's no longer supported or patched I encourage anyone who's continuing to use it to do nothing related to connecting to cyberspace or, if they absolutely must do so, to be certain they are taking full system image backups on a regular basis. Windows XP is dead. It runs on old hardware and will continue to do so, but that doesn't make it a safe or viable option for computing in a world where threats have kept on moving and official extended support for it ended on April 8, 2014, after which it has received no ongoing support nor security updates. I am well aware that untold millions of people continue to use Windows XP. I liked Windows XP immensely. That doesn't mean that continuing to use Windows XP unless you absolutely have no other option is a wise choice. It is absolutely playing with fire from a security standpoint and the last Microsoft supported version of Internet Explorer that is available for it is now blocked by a huge number of websites secondary to security concerns.
-- Brian Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~ Lauren Bacall
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i dont use internet explorer and only i use firefox. i read somewhere that xp is supported until 2019
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On 12/6/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 07:07 am, nasrin khaksar wrote:
i wish that all my favorite programs support all operating systems and i have freedom of my choice to select them. This has never, ever been the case and never will be. The moment an OS developer officially ends active support for a given OS that means that third-party support for applications for same will soon follow.
Given the number of really gross security holes in Windows XP that exist only because it's no longer supported or patched I encourage anyone who's continuing to use it to do nothing related to connecting to cyberspace or, if they absolutely must do so, to be certain they are taking full system image backups on a regular basis.
Windows XP is dead. It runs on old hardware and will continue to do so, but that doesn't make it a safe or viable option for computing in a world where threats have kept on moving and official extended support for it ended on April 8, 2014, after which it has received no ongoing support nor security updates.
I am well aware that untold millions of people continue to use Windows XP. I liked Windows XP immensely. That doesn't mean that continuing to use Windows XP unless you absolutely have no other option is a wise choice. It is absolutely playing with fire from a security standpoint and the last Microsoft supported version of Internet Explorer that is available for it is now blocked by a huge number of websites secondary to security concerns.
-- *Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 07:30 am, nasrin khaksar wrote: i read somewhere that xp is supported until 2019 That is quite simply incorrect. Microsoft ended all official support for Windows XP in 2014, and that was extended support. Base support ended in 2008. See this official announcement on technet.microsoft.com. -- Brian Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~ Lauren Bacall
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i am sure that its true i dont remember the site but i read it on many websites and i have no doubt.
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On 12/6/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 07:30 am, nasrin khaksar wrote:
i read somewhere that xp is supported until 2019 That is quite simply incorrect. Microsoft ended all official support for Windows XP in 2014, and that was extended support. Base support ended in 2008. See this official announcement ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-xp.aspx ) on technet.microsoft.com. -- *Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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It doesn't matter how many sites may say
this. Many sites may have incorrect information. It is important to
get information from reliable sites. Windows XP hasn't been supported for
a number of years. Do a google search for Windows XP support end and look
at results from good sources such as Microsoft's information or PC World or
other reputable sites.
Here is a quote from Microsoft.
"After 12 years, support for Windows XP ended April
8, 2014."
Gene
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Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior
to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported?
#NVDARelease
i am sure that its true i dont remember the site but i read it
on many websites and i have no doubt. On 12/6/16, Brian Vogel < britechguy@...> wrote: >
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 07:30 am, nasrin khaksar
wrote: > >> >> i read somewhere that xp is supported
until 2019 > > That is quite simply incorrect. Microsoft
ended all official support for > Windows XP in 2014, and that was extended
support. Base support ended in > 2008. See this official
announcement ( > https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-xp.aspx
) on > technet.microsoft.com. > -- > *Brian* > >
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
If > you’re alive, it isn’t.* > > ~ Lauren
Bacall > -- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the
creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic
narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of
salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different
languages al-islam.org
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Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote: It doesn't matter how many sites may say this. Many sites may have incorrect information. It is important to get information from reliable sites. Windows 7 support ends in 2020. Maybe that's what the poster was confused about.
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You know, you can lead a horse to the unequivocal, official Microsoft announcement . . . There are untold millions of bits of grossly incorrect information on the web. When an answer comes directly from the website of a given thing's maker that, and only that, is what deserves consideration and is definitive. -- Brian Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~ Lauren Bacall
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Windows XP stopped being supported 2 years ago. Why do you still want to stay with it?
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On 12/6/2016 4:53 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote: i realy wish and request that dont stop supporting of xp.
On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
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*From: *David <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, December 5, 2016 3:12 PM *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject: *Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.") So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software: * if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved * if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an idiosyncratic problem with your own system I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc. I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this. -- *Brian* *Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.* ~ Lauren Bacall
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-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Not to be rude, but I'm sticking with it, because number 1, this system running it still works, and hasn't yet died on me, and I bwelieve in pushing systems to their max lifetime. Secondly, one of the internal programs we use at work though supported by Windows 10 heavily relies on jaws scripts. Unfortunately, the developer of those scripts died from a massive heart attack, bless his heart, back when XP was! still supported. Enough things have changed with UI automation and such that the scripts do not work with anything above XP. This program is such that without the scripts, or an NVDA addon, the app is completely useless from a blind standpoint. I can't go into much, but I'll say it's our clientelle CMS system. I'm legally not allowed to reveal the actual name of the system we use for confidentiality reasonings, but I can! tell you this: the company did try outsourcing another dev to try making an NVDA addon, but no luck was gained. The developer evaluated the application and said it would be too complex, and too complicated to effectively deploy where it would be worthwhile.
Could we switch to another CMS? Well, yeah, if the CEO would agree to do so, but right now, that's not a project I can take on at my level of departmentship.
So, I really don't have much of a choice at this point. It's either keep XP around, or lose my job. Did I say it's ideal? No I didn't. But, it's what I have to work with, so, that's that. I do own a Windows 10 machine quite obviously, but for work purposes, I still have to often rely on this dinosaur, and trust me. I asked. There is no way to access our system from the mac, nor from Linux, or trust me, I'd do it.
Chris.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemarie Chavarria" <knitqueen2007@gmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease Windows XP stopped being supported 2 years ago. Why do you still want to stay with it?
On 12/6/2016 4:53 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
i realy wish and request that dont stop supporting of xp.
On 12/6/16, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Er, ordered a hamburger but got a chicken sandwich instead... Support for Windows XP depends on a number of things, the most important being compiler support (NVDA isn't powered entirely by Python; there are a couple components that are compiled by Visual Studio compiler, and thankfully, the one NV Access uses supports compiling NVDA to run on XP). There will indeed come a time when NVDA will drop support for XP, and this list will be one of the firsts to know when this happens well in advance of end of support date. Same fate is awaiting Windows Vista in 2017 - Windows Vista will be supported for a while though. Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of nasrin khaksar Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:25 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
please dont stop supporting of windows xp. nvda is extremely great, even with continuation of supporting of all operating systems that i love and also my softwares. quentin, i decided to migrate to linux, but i only love nvda, my current programs and cant learn new operating system and command lines when installing softwares. and one people replied that even i cant use nvda via vine on linux and via vine, i cant use my windows programs because they are not accessible even with using orca.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi joseph. yes, i use windows xp and i heard that .UIA is not supported on xp. i did not change an important option for accessibility.
hi david. my windows has problem and i dont know the reason. but i should say that my windows has not narrator at all! i tested this and and i am sure that i dont have narrator to test! moreover, microsoft sam is not understandable for me and i cant recognize what he says and what message does he read! and also for me, i could not install another screen reader beside nvda, because my system faces hangs, crashes and for me in my system, screen readers are not compatible with each other. you mentioned that having more than one screen reader does not cause trouble, but for me it causes!
hi gene. i tested many versions of potplayer and the result of testing all versions, was crash of nvda since version 2015.4 so, its a regression in nvda 2015.4, because in 2015.3 i did not face such problem. yes. the current stable version of potplayer as you and quentin mentioned, is 1.6.63856 but as i said i tried different versions and could not solve the issue myself. also, i did not change any settings in potplayer including: skins, visual appearance, and its other settings. vlc is not accessible for me, not has great quality and needs powerful system. i tried it and the result was only system resources consumption and crashes of the program for me! and the only satisfactory program for me is potplayer. i found this in many month research, many program tested and going to the many websites. also, thanks so much for your link. i joined this and repeated my problem. the problem for me is only crashing of nvda, not potplayer!
hi quentin. thanks extremely for your kindness. i dont think that my problem is related to specific version of windows and also specific version of potplayer. i am sure there is one problem with nvda and potplayer which is regression from nvda 2015.4 and later versions.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi jacob. thanks so much for helping me.
can you please test many files with potplayer? eventually for me nvda is not responding and i dont know how to solve this problem.
On 12/6/16, nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> wrote:
hi david and quentin. i use xp and also i do all of my works with it. i use internet, libreoffice, notepad, potplayer and one conversion software. i dont have the security programs because realy i dont trust them!
On 12/6/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> wrote:
You're more of an expert on what works under XP than me Brian, that's great info!
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Brian's Mail list account < bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Well, as far as I am aware, the basic plan is to not break XP if it is at all possible, but just occasionally this might not be possible as the windows code changes. Indeed at the moment xp portable versions of even the next snapshots are very good. Try running portable copies of nvda on, say windows 10 and you will find lots of things that no longer work due to the security of that operating system not allowing access to parts of windows from a portable app. the big problem at present for those using XP is the web browser. Depending on your processor, 50 is the last version I can get to work on xp with intel processors, and 48 is the last one on xp with amd processors. This is due to the lack of sse2 instruction set support on the amd chips. Dropbox, no matter what Dropbox say, is working fine again on xp intel processors at version 15, though they do warn that this could change as its officially not supported. AMD chips last working version of Dropbox is 13, and one has to disable updates by nefarious means to keep it working on such hardware.
The hack to continue to get xp updates is still working for MSSE, but his month no xp security updates came down. whether this means they have blocked the loophole or just they have given up I cannot say. I notice that Flash for IE8 is seemingly not being updated by Adobe, but seems to be working in Firefox 50 at the moment. Adobe reader DC is not usable on XP and 11 is the last version.
I'm sure there are many other issues but that really depends on what you are doing. Its gratifying to note that the hacked copy of Outlook express that works in 10 is still supported by nvda, and its only issue is that its preview pane has to be turned off or it will fall over sometimes.
Brian
bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Is XP REALLY not being supported any longer?
Could be. But I did read an article - think it is about a year ago - where it was stated that Microsoft continue to support XP for businesses, of course not free of charge. Cannot speak for the validity of the article, and do not know if I even bookmarked it either.
A whole other thing to keep in mind, is this:
Do you have an XP machine, and only connect it to the net to update your security software, you might still be able to use it offline for a long time yet. And if you only update the database of your security software, that software will keep rolling under XP for who knows how long.
From what I can see, several users still use XP. Even for those of us who happen to have made the step forward, to some newer flavor of Windows, many of us still keep XP machines hanging around. Personally, I do join the ones who have an XP machine, simply because I have software that is needed for certain tasks, which would not impose a security risk, but which cannot be run under newer Windows. That is, my XP machine is not going online, but I still need a screen reader for it. And, as the commercial screen readers tend to stop supporting an OS, whenever Microsoft does, I am happy to learn that NVDA apparently continues to run under XP. Hopefully, that will leave many of us the chance to continue using our older equipment, for tasks that totally well could be run on an offline, XP system.
Seemingly too, there will be many places in the world, where they still commonly use XP. Not everyone could afford the upgrade of the OS, and basically there might not be too much more holes in XP, than in any newer flavors of Windows. According to what I read, both Win8 and 10, seem to have open holes. Some even are well known, but for whatever reason are not being cared for. And many times, the biggest holes are not in your OS itself, but more in the communication between you and the Internet. Such net related holes, might be independent on which OS you are running.
Just some thoughts to keep in mind, when advicing.
David
On 12/6/2016 6:49 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Xp is dead, it will probably stay in core for a while but to be honest microsoft has deemed it unsupported so its crap os now and any computer with it will have malware and be crappy to because microsoft says so and I really don't aggree with microsoft but its the way it is. Xp like win98 and other good versions of windows is history, soon 7 will be then we will have to struggle with 10.
On 6/12/2016 3:10 p.m., Michael Capelle wrote:
please, do not get rid of xp support. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Christensen" <quentin@nvaccess.org> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
That's true Gene. I had a thought in mind about Windows XP as well, although when I looked back at Nasrin's original question re Potplayer, it was using Windows 7 - although there are multiple versions of Windows 7 as well (for the record, I have Windows 7 home premium, SP1 64 bit).
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Gene <gsasner@ripco.com> wrote:
And, of course, you aren't testing with XP. That may be the cause of
these problems.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Quentin Christensen <quentin@nvaccess.org> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 6:08 PM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Hi everyone,
I downloaded the version that Nasrin linked to, which was the same one Gene tried - version 1.6.6385619.7.
It doesn't have a traditional alt menu and you also can't tab around the main screen to read the information which is displayed visually. However, you can get to the commands via the applications key, and there are keystrokes for most things, once you know what they are.
I tried it on both Windows 10 and Windows 7, and found that I could play MP3 files with it, pause and play again, and alt+f4 to close when I finished listening to a couple of songs, and everything seems fine? I'm using NVDA 2016.4rc1 Actually I just realised I still had 2016.3 on the Windows 7 machine so I've gone back and tried with 2016.4rc1 and again, I couldn't reproduce the crash, even after listening to a few songs.
Kind regards
Quentin.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, David Moore <jesusloves1966@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, That is true,
Narrator, in win10 anniversary update, has enabled me to access controls that I could not access with JAWS or NVDA. I highly recommend that one learn how to use Narrator, because it is getting more and more powful in win10, and can do a few things that high-end screen readers cannot do. Think that you have three screen readerrs, Narrator, NVDA, and JAWS or Window eyes that you can use in demo mode.
David Moore
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*From: *David <trailerdavid@hotmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, December 5, 2016 3:12 PM *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io *Subject: *Re: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Just for your correction.
You said you do NOT have any other screen reader to test? I do
understand what you mean, but it is not fully and completely true.
ALL, and I mean ALL flavors of Windows - from at least XP and up - holds
Microsoft's embedded screen reader, named NARRATOR. Though far from
being a full-fledged screen reader, it many times can help you out. For
instance, due to its very basic functionality, it at least could give
you some idea to what extend a piece of software is accessible at all.
If NARRATOR cannot help you out, then chances are that the software at
the minimum requires some more advanced features of the screen reader.
I do, and have don so in other settings, on a general basis encourage
all: If your high-end screen reader cannot do what you want, give
Narrator a go. Then com back and report your findings.
Might sound a bit awkward at first glance. But sometimes the high-end
screen readers might have settings, that complicates the usage of a
software. Running Narrator, finding that things work, you might be able
to start tracing why the high-end screen reader does not do what you expect.
Furthermore, most - if not all - of the high-end screen readers, do have
downloadable demo-versions. Might be an idea, to download and install at
least one such demo, and use it for cases when you want to determine if
NVDA is the bottleneck of your issue. Far as I know, they all provide
you fully working products, with an up-time of anything from 30 to 60
minutes; Enough time to get an idea of whether your third-party software
is workable or not.
In the older days, installing more than one screen reader, sometimes
caused system trouble. To the best of my knowledge, such is NOT the case
any longer, and have not been for a decade or so. In other words,
encouraged are everyone, to go get yourself at least one backup screen
reader, if nothing else go for a demo. It further might help the tech
team of NVDA getting to the core of your problem, if you can describe
what is taken place when running an alternative screen reader.
How do you know, if you prefer McDonald burgers, if you never tasted
anything but Burger-King?
David
On 12/5/2016 5:22 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
gene. thanks so much for helping me to test the program. i dont have any screen reader except nvda to test. me too, use windows xp service pack 3 you dont need to use nvda cursors to intract with potplayer menus. you should only press the application keys and you can access to all menus and options by normal arrow keys. only nvda freezes and says nothing in the windows except unknown. i should restart nvda to work as normal. On 12/5/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, this thread has taken an interesting turn that I hadn't ever anticipated (and, to quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with
that.") So I'll use this to get back on my soapbox about when anyone encounters an
issue with any software or combination of software: * if you cannot give steps necessary to replicate the problem there's
virtually no hope that the problem can or will be solved * if you can give steps necessary to replicate the problem, but others
running the same operating system and similar overall configuration that you
are don't have it when they perform those steps, this suggests an idiosyncratic problem with your own system I cannot count the number of times when I've spent hours on a given problem
only to find out that it was a weird interaction between two programs that
are installed, that a system has not been updated and old DLL files >> are
being called that have errors that have long ago been fixed, etc. I'm not saying that anyone is directly "at fault" for anything, but these
are factors that you must consider and there will be occasions when "it's
just you" as well as many more when it's "not just you." Having a detective's mindset is essential in instances such as this. -- *Brian* *Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.* ~ Lauren Bacall
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-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Chris, I think that anyone who's ever worked for anyone else who supplied computer equipment knows that you're at the mercy of your employer's decisions, and those decisions often have nothing to do with what makes the most long-term sense. That being said, I think the question, "Why are you sticking with XP?," is directed at those who have the ability (and that includes finances, we all get forces of economics) to change, but don't. The most frequent reason I hear is a variant on, "Because that's what I'm used to." Well, you weren't when you first started using it and every version of Windows except Windows 8, which was a weird change in a lot of ways, has a very strong set of roots in its predecessors. I see that more in Windows 10 than I ever did in 8 or 8.1 - those two releases seemed to be when Microsoft was thinking about the world as if it was all touch-screen and tablet oriented and that desktop computers would be passe. Win 10 has wedded pretty much all that I liked up through Win7 with the few things I liked in Win8 as well as throwing in some very useful new stuff. My clients who have gone from Win7 to Win10 seem less traumatized by the transition than going from Win7 to Win8 or Win8.1. At this time, barring outside forces such as the ones you're dealing with, it makes very little business sense or computing sense to keep nursing Windows XP along if you're using it in cyberspace connected environments. It's a huge security risk just do to what's not been patched for almost 3 years now in the OS and sometimes longer in the third-party software on it. I've said it before, and not only about Windows, either, but there is a great advantage to transitioning to a newer OS not on the bleeding edge, but when there's a huge cohort doing it at the same time. Right now the ability to find Windows 10 information that's up to the minute and widely available is very high. As time goes by that decreases, and people no longer have it "fresh on their minds" when it comes to questions about what they did to get a specific setting tweaked, for instance. I couldn't tell you now probably way more than half of what I used to know like the back of my hand about Windows XP because it's been years since any employer I've worked for used it or I've used it as my primary OS. In certain respects the same thing will occur with Windows 10, too, well before it's replaced because so many things are "set it and forget it," both literally and figuratively. Back to the subject: Third-Party developers tend to drop active support for a given OS very shortly after the OS manufacturer does. Backward compatibility may exist for a while "by chance," but it will eventually be terminated when there's a conflict between being able to create what the developers believe is an improved product that runs on a supported OS and backward compatibility. -- Brian Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~ Lauren Bacall
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Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07@...>
I agree with every single thing you're saying, but
again, I'm not the one who makes the decisions of what systems and OS's we
run.
If it were me, we'd not have an xp machine in this
whole company, but, lamentably, I don't get that luxury.
Chris.
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Subject: Re: Windows XP support was: RE:
[nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC
release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
Chris,
I think that anyone who's ever worked
for anyone else who supplied computer equipment knows that you're at the mercy
of your employer's decisions, and those decisions often have nothing to do
with what makes the most long-term sense.
That being said, I think the question,
"Why are you sticking with XP?," is directed at those who have the ability
(and that includes finances, we all get forces of economics) to change, but
don't. The most frequent reason I hear is a variant on, "Because that's
what I'm used to." Well, you weren't when you first started using it and
every version of Windows except Windows 8, which was a weird change in a lot
of ways, has a very strong set of roots in its predecessors. I see that
more in Windows 10 than I ever did in 8 or 8.1 - those two releases seemed to
be when Microsoft was thinking about the world as if it was all touch-screen
and tablet oriented and that desktop computers would be passe. Win 10
has wedded pretty much all that I liked up through Win7 with the few things I
liked in Win8 as well as throwing in some very useful new stuff. My
clients who have gone from Win7 to Win10 seem less traumatized by the
transition than going from Win7 to Win8 or Win8.1.
At this time, barring outside forces
such as the ones you're dealing with, it makes very little business sense or
computing sense to keep nursing Windows XP along if you're using it in
cyberspace connected environments. It's a huge security risk just do to
what's not been patched for almost 3 years now in the OS and sometimes longer
in the third-party software on it.
I've said it before, and not only
about Windows, either, but there is a great advantage to transitioning to a
newer OS not on the bleeding edge, but when there's a huge cohort doing it at
the same time. Right now the ability to find Windows 10 information
that's up to the minute and widely available is very high. As time goes
by that decreases, and people no longer have it "fresh on their minds" when it
comes to questions about what they did to get a specific setting tweaked, for
instance. I couldn't tell you now probably way more than half of what I
used to know like the back of my hand about Windows XP because it's been years
since any employer I've worked for used it or I've used it as my primary OS.
In certain respects the same thing will occur with Windows 10, too, well
before it's replaced because so many things are "set it and forget it," both
literally and figuratively.
Back to the subject: Third-Party developers tend to drop active
support for a given OS very shortly after the OS manufacturer does.
Backward compatibility may exist for a while "by chance," but it will
eventually be terminated when there's a conflict between being able to create
what the developers believe is an improved product that runs on a supported OS
and backward compatibility. -- Brian
Here
is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If
you’re alive, it isn’t.
~ Lauren
Bacall
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there you have it thanks Gene.
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On 06/12/2016 16:21, Gene wrote: It doesn't matter how many sites may say this. Many sites may have incorrect information. It is important to get information from reliable sites. Windows XP hasn't been supported for a number of years. Do a google search for Windows XP support end and look at results from good sources such as Microsoft's information or PC World or other reputable sites.
Here is a quote from Microsoft. "After 12 years, support for Windows XP ended April 8, 2014."
Gene ----- Original Message ------ *From:* nasrin khaksar <mailto:nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 06, 2016 10:07 AM *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> *Subject:* Re: Windows XP support was: RE: [nvda] Is any release prior to the latest stable release, and thenext RC release, officially supported? #NVDARelease
i am sure that its true i dont remember the site but i read it on many websites and i have no doubt.
On 12/6/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@gmail.com <mailto:britechguy@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 07:30 am, nasrin khaksar wrote:
i read somewhere that xp is supported until 2019 That is quite simply incorrect. Microsoft ended all official support for Windows XP in 2014, and that was extended support. Base support ended in 2008. See this official announcement ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-xp.aspx ) on technet.microsoft.com. -- *Brian*
*Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.*
~ Lauren Bacall
-- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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