[ddots-l] Re: Windows 10, JAWS 16, CakeTalking 8.8, SONAR 8.5

  • From: D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 13:39:17 -0500

Go Back to Windows 7. Windows 10 has no classic theme support. Even if you
copy or use one of the hacks online, it's a hack, windows will be unstable;
the engine that use to run the classic theme was removed starting with
windows 8. These hacks for example will crash windows when using a modern
app or any program that makes use of the newer graphics API. While this may
be an OK and viable solution for some, it is by far not a solid fix,
specially for a production environment, thus it's not recommended. Given the
way Microsoft is pushing updates to windows 10 as well, even requiring that
certain updates be installed, it's hard to say how long such "workarounds"
would work for anyways.

The closest thing in windows10 is the high contrast theme, but color
rendering is still different, so I doubt jaws would work fully well with
such themes.

Open source scripts might be able to be modified to work with the new color
schemes, but commercial products like CT would depend on the author to do
so. As far as I know, no scripts have been modified to work under windows 8+



HTH, D!J!X!



From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Roger Baccus
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 1:01 PM
To: Dancing Dots
Subject: [ddots-l] Windows 10, JAWS 16, CakeTalking 8.8, SONAR 8.5



What do I have to do to make this work? Do I have to go to an earlier
version of JAWS? Do I have to go back to Windows 7?

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