Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Technology - W-E 6.0 Beta1

Window-Eyes 6.0 Beta 1 available.

After 10 months of testing and teath grinding on the part of GW Micro the latest Window-Eyes is with us in its first beta form.   I am rather pleased with the new PowerPoint support as nothing else can touch it, and the Outlook Calendar is now fully accessible along with other parts of the ap that didn’t work well in the past.

They have also improved Braille support meaning one can read a full document from start to end from the display with the advance key, plus half a dozen other new Braille features.

Help has been given a face lift making it more usable and controllable, plus they have added a key describer, tip of the day feature and simplified the learning time for Jaws users.

Skype support is much improved along with extra keys to get info on your battery and to quickly shut down the product.  Stability and responsiveness have taken another step forward and support for Office 2007 beta, Vista RC1 IE7 and Firefox 2X round off my favourite features.

Check out the readme file for more information.

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