Topic by malthe 2008-10-21 21:13:08

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Hey.
Just wanted to shamelessly advertise for my own program here, since it might be useful for some of you.
I've had issues with the signal strength bars in the wireless network connection dialog in windows, so I wrote a program to speak it whenever you press a custom hotkey. Sapi is required.
You can get it at:
http://dl.uwod.net/
Enjoy, and if you have any issues just reply here or write at me or whatever. The only slightly tricky bit might be that you need to define your wireless card in the settings.txt file, but just do a copy-paste from the network connections dialog or the device manager and you'll be fine.
Hope this isn't too OT, enjoy. Malthe.

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Reply by cw 2008-10-21 22:24:05

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What versions of windows will it work with?

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Reply by malthe 2008-10-21 23:01:23

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I ran it on xp home with no probs, not sure about vista , 2k or 9X but I'd asume vista and xp Pro will work at least. Wont hurt to try it anyway
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Reply by cw 2008-10-21 23:57:55

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OK. I'll give it a try sometime.

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Reply by harrylst 2008-10-22 04:03:04

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Why did you write the essay evader? It's great to do your homework.

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Reply by malthe 2008-10-22 08:02:14

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Mostly because I was bored.

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Reply by cx2 2008-10-22 15:33:50

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No it isn't off topic, that's why this is the "off topic" room. So long as it isn't offensive or otherwise of dubious legality or morality and is a genuine topic it's fine.

I'll have to check this out, it's something I've struggled with myself. You would think either FS or M$ would take the hint, but guess not.

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Reply by malthe 2008-10-22 15:45:51

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Ok, cool.
Yeah, especially when windows actually shows the signal strength as text when showing the tooltips but graphically in the network connections, reactivating your connection all the time is kinda clunky.

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Reply by cw 2008-10-22 19:45:13

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I know, at least most of the time, my connection status shows up in text in the syst tray. Let's say that CW is the name of the network. it would currently say "cw speed: 54.0 MBps signal strength: very good". On the other hand I'm using 0config over the software that came with my card do to access problems. In short I would not recommend the linksys wireless-n WUSB300n card. I couldn't get the software install without sighted help, but that's for another topic. Anyway good piece of software, and it does what it does well. Doesn't require any help and best of all, it's free.

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Reply by Mike 2008-10-22 23:02:37

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Could you make this work with the JFW API?

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Reply by cx2 2008-10-23 10:18:53

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That would be useful, of course the SAPI version would probably still be handy for non Jaws users so best to keep the SAPI version available whichever way you go.

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Reply by malthe 2008-10-23 15:15:50 (edited by malthe 2008-10-23 15:18:48)

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I could port it to work with the jfw API, although not sure how the other screenreader APIs work, but I could try to research that and do it over the weekend. Does system access even have one? But I can implement jaws as a start. I just opted to use sapi since it'd be the broadest range of people that could use that. Then I can just have a toggle in the settings file between the various speech options.

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Reply by pitermach 2008-10-23 17:04:39

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the other readers that have such apis are system access and window-eyes. dolphins hal and super nova don't have it.

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Reply by cx2 2008-10-23 18:13:54

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And nor does NVDA I suspect, but you primarily use Sapi with that anyway.



I suspect the biggest possible change would be detecting the available network adapters, but this might be asking a lot. If for example you could choose from the ones on your system in a combo box or a list box.

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