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Goldberg, Aleaza Sarah
aleazag
Mar 8, 2010 6:58 am
Hello all, I am passing on a question from an interested consumer who is considering purchasing the MonoMouse electronic magnifier. Any input from anyone who...
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John Cunniff
johncunniff
Mar 23, 2010 9:54 pm
Hello, Everybody. I plan to shop around new laptops with friends soon. But, I thought I would like to drop you a line to see what you suggest. I live in Boston...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 24, 2010 2:00 am
Hi Johnny,  I actually had a friend ask me this very same question recently with regard to ZoomText and a new laptop. The advice I gave him was as follows:...
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John Cunniff
johncunniff
Mar 24, 2010 2:31 am
Hello, Karey! Nice to hear from your wonderful comments to me. Thank you very much for your wonderful suggestions. Yes. I agree what you said. Smile. That is...
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Griffiths, Steve
stevegriffit...
Mar 24, 2010 6:01 am
Johnny, The Windows 7 Magnifier is good if you use low magnification and standard colours. Low magnification because there is no smoothing. Standard colours...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 24, 2010 5:55 pm
Hi Johnny,  You're welcome and it couldn't have been better timing! I hadn't had a chance to post my friend's questions as I've been swamped with work. ...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 24, 2010 6:03 pm
Thanks Steve,  This is very helpful to know! I knew that the Windows Magnifier wouldn't have some of the screen reading capabilities of ZoomText, but...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 24, 2010 7:49 pm
@laptop buyers: go for fast graphics! The new W7 magnifier squeezes your GPU to run circles around ZoomText. Yes, it's basic, but how many of the ZT features...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 24, 2010 9:53 pm
Bas,  How high of magnification do you use? Does Windows 7 Magnifier tmake 1 or 2 inch high characters so rough that they are barely readable? I use ZT...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 25, 2010 7:12 am
Hi Karey, I'm using the W7 magnifier at 6.5x on a 22" Samsung LCD. I can see that my fonts are not so smooth, but the response times are so short that I prefer...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 25, 2010 3:46 pm
Thanks Bas, Â I'm not on Windows 7 yet here at work as it doesn't work with one of our database products that we use all the time, but probably will be...
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T H
mrstish05
Mar 26, 2010 7:19 am
I recently had Windows 7 installed on my laptiop and its ok. I take online classes and its not compatiible with Blackboard which is a site I use for my...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 26, 2010 2:13 pm
Sadly, ZoomText is not 100% compatible with everything either. I've had issues with ZoomText and Blacboard, although the college I work for no longer uses...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 27, 2010 1:31 pm
To activate Java-Zoomtext interoperability you need to install the Java Access Bridge. Download URL: ...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 27, 2010 1:36 pm
According to the Blackboard web site their product line should run fine with W7. Compatibility matrix URL: ...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 28, 2010 2:57 am
Thanks Bas,  I did this about 2 years ago, roughly 3 days after I first saw the problems with the newer versions of SPSS. That did NOTHING, and SPSS said...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 28, 2010 9:24 am
Hi Karey, I googled a bit and I found this PDF: http://bit.ly/c3st2N It suggests that the JAB is already packaged with the SPSS JRE, but it is not active by...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 28, 2010 9:27 pm
Thanks Bas,  This is interesting. I really appreciate you taking the time to Google this for me! I never even thought to Goole something like SPSS and...
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Donald Richards
donzzz77
Mar 29, 2010 12:41 pm
Karey, I am about to have cataract surgery. Any advice? Donz ... -- Donz ISC (Innovative Synergtstic Collaborations)...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 29, 2010 3:42 pm
Hi Don,  I'm sorry, but I'm not that familiar with cataracts, or the surgery to remove them. My condition is actually one that I've had since birth, and is...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 29, 2010 5:07 pm
Bas,  After reviewing the PDF file you referenced, I believe we did all of this about 2 years ago. I have to schedule with our IT department to verify...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 29, 2010 5:25 pm
Hi Karey, Please inspect the contents of the accessibility.properties file that is included with the SPSS JRE. The standard Sun JRE activates JAB with the ...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Mar 29, 2010 5:55 pm
Thanks again Bas for your help!  I found the file in the .../jre/lib directory, under the SPSS directory. These 2 lines are the only lines in the file,...
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Bas Cancrinus
bascancr
Mar 31, 2010 9:41 pm
So Zoomtext does not track the UI controls of SPSS with the correct values of accessibility.properties? Very strange, I can't tell you from here what's wrong....
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Apr 1, 2010 1:31 am
Thanks Bas, and thanks for your help! Its possible that the instuctions you sent may be the key if my system is not pointing to the SPSS Access Bridge. I...
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Karey Carbaugh
kareycarbaugh
Apr 1, 2010 5:14 am
Hello All,  I received this information today and thought it might be of interest to some on this list. Thank you, Have a Great Day! Karey Carbaugh  Save...
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lbabus
Apr 7, 2010 6:19 am
My dad just got a new computer with Windows xp (he's legally blind and 98 so we didn't want to change too much) and I was unable to replicate for him a feature...
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Kathy Seven Williams
k7will
Apr 9, 2010 12:12 am
It doesn't work everywhere, but in Internet Explorer and I think in word and Outlook Express, but I"m not sure as I don' thave them on this computer, just hold...
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lbabus
Apr 12, 2010 6:05 am
Thanks, though this isn't exactly what I was looking for it will help....
