Accessibility Advances in Windows Vista

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Darragh — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:16:10 GMT

Thanks to the people at MS Ireland, I got a chance to briefly take a look at Vista and it's accessibility. I agree that the new Microsoft voices are very nice but I am still kind of worried at the lack of speech output from the Windows User Account Control window. Take a look at my review on my own blog at http://www.14u.ie/node/88 Your comments are welcome. I'm really looking forward to the release of Vista. I just hope it can widthstand all this hype. It's also a pitty I'm going to have to shell out over 600 Euro to upgrade my screen reader just to avail of a few new features though.

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Gustavo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:43:24 GMT

Hello

On Windows Vista Official Web Page i read that Vista supports up to eight speech recognition languages, but i can't figure out how I can add spanish speech recognition I only have English US and UK

What I am doing Wrong?

re: Accessibility Advances in Windows Vista

Annuska Perkins (MSFT) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:34:23 GMT

In response to the Comment about the accessibility features - I wanted to chime in. I'm a product planner on the Windows Accessibility Group. Our team does customer research throughout the product cycle to gather feedback from people using Ease of Access features. Allow me to list a few new features customers have been pleased with - in addition to speech recognition, which allows you to operate the UI and applications via speech. For example, Windows Vista comes with a new, more human-like Text-to-Speech engine, which is used by Narrator. The Simplified Chinese SKU of Vista is localized to Mandarian. Actually, Narrator works with any SPAPI-compliant TTS engine, so users have the choice of downloading their preferred voice in their language.

Also, Windows Vista has more display Personalization features – from changing Color attributes, font size, and many more in the Personalization control panel.

To make configuring the computer easier, the Ease of Access control panel is organized by disability-type, plus has a questionnaire that will map a user’s preferences to the Vista and 3rd party assistive aids on the computer.

There is more detailed information about Windows Vista accessibility features - plus 3rd party accessibility products - at http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsvista/.

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Brandon LeBlanc — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:13:11 GMT

drcursor,

Sorry you feel that no one is listening. Instead of going to the newsgroups, how about trying the Windows Core Networking Blog? I know these guys read their comments and respond accordingly. I believe you will most likely get a better result for your question by posting there.

Here is the link:

http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/default.aspx

re: Accessibility Advances in Windows Vista

drcursor — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:28:42 GMT

SIdeBar Geek : unfortunately nobody seems to be listening...

I've reported it on MSs foruns and 2 microsoft,network related newsgroups...

re: Accessibility Advances in Windows Vista

Brandon LeBlanc — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:13:22 GMT

drcursor, you're question would much more likely be answered over on the Windows Vista newsgroups. There are folks there that can offer technical assistance to questions such as yours and your DNS issues with Windows Vista.

re: Accessibility Advances in Windows Vista

Nick White — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:43:48 GMT

Hey wjohnsons: not absolutely sure that if you were subscribe now you'd have 2007 Office available to you, but my suspicion is yes. WV should also be there for you as well.

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wjohnsons — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:36:20 GMT

Is it possible to obtain a technet subscription to uptain a version of vista rtm or an office 2007?

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someone — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:06:10 GMT

I feel accessibility is exactly the area where Windows was ahead once upon a time but eventually has fallen behind. The accessibility features, except for speech have largely remained the same since Windows 95. If you've run out of ideas, here are some for the next version of Windows:

- Ability to make the display turn gray for color blind people

- Put SerialKeys or new API back

- Add a full-fledged screen reader application and a still better voice, MS could really do with 5-6 voices instead of just 1 or 2.

- Volume control is not accessible. Make it easily adjustible.

- Make the built-in programs and entire UI operable by speech.

- Support braille touchscreens, embossers and keyboards

- Add something significantly new, dont simply revise the features as you've been doing since Windows 95

- UI Automation an an API is great but MS should produce an app using it which makes it easy to automate things.

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drcursor — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:30:31 GMT

Sorry for being off-topic...but I'm getting really worried about this and can't seem to get an answer anywhere...

I'm having problems with Vista's DNS Suffixing:

- My entire network has the dns suffix : work.intranet and I have a BIND dns server that resolves a.work.intranet and *.a.work.intranet to 192.168.0.2 so that if I ping bbb.a.work.intranet or ccc.a.work.intranet they all resolve to 192.168.0.2 (at least up until Vista)

- If I ping a.work.intranet it correctly resolves to 192.168.0.2;

- If I ping a it correctly resolves to 192.168.0.2;

- If I ping bbb.a.work.intranet it correctly resolves to 192.168.0.2;

- BUT IF I ping bbb.a it no longer resolves. (could not find host)

- If I do a nslookup bbb.a it correcly resolves to 192.168.0.2

So what appears to be happening is that it isn't adding the dns suffix when the domain has more than two parts (xxx.yyy).

There's something similar reported on microsoft's foruns : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=884630&SiteID=1

Any ideas how to solve this?