[slikom] JAWS verzija 11.0
- From: "Gradimir Kragic" <bastono@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lista SliKom" <slikom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:33:04 +0200
Zdravo svima,
Mada se još ne piše o novoj verziji JAWS-a a koja će svakako biti verzija
11.0 već sada se ponešto zna šta nas u njoj čeka. Ona će svakako biti zvanična
verzija koja podržava Windows 7 mada i verzija 10.0 dobro radi sa tom verzijom
Windowsa. Ne treba očekivati neke velike novine kada je u pitanju korišćenje
JAWS-a. Više će se dobiti na kompatibilnosti JAWS-a i Windows 7.
Ovog časa se zna barem za dvije novine:
1. FSReader Demo, neće biti više demo verzija već puna besplatna verzija. Da
podsjetim ovaj FSReader je jednostavnije rečeno daisy player. Uz postojeći AMIS
player koji je po meni vrlo dobar, sada se dobija još jedan besplatan DAISY
player. Uz softvere koji kreiraju fajlove daisy formata a koji takođe postoji
kao besplatan, nema razloga da i na ovim prostorima ne počne nešto više
upotreba
ovog formata zapisa knjiga i ostalog materijala za učenje.
2. Novina je zanimljiva samo za one koji koriste Brajevi redak. Novina je baš
po meni novina. U nastavku ove poruke slijedi orginalni tekst na Engleskom
jeziku.
Freedom Scientific Announces Secure and Compatible Braille Display Initiative
JAWS® 11 to Offer Improved Security and Interoperability
St. Petersburg, Florida – August 11, 2009) — Freedom Scientific, one of the
leading providers of assistive technology for people who are blind, announced
its Secure and Compatible Braille Display Initiative today.
The goal of this new program is to follow Microsoft’s move to signed drivers to
improve security and compatibility for customers who use a Braille display
with JAWS. Under this program, Freedom Scientific will test Braille displays to
ensure compatibility with JAWS and then digitally sign the driver. Starting
with the JAWS 11 release later this year, only drivers that have been digitally
signed by Freedom Scientific will work with JAWS.
“A digitally signed driver means you can be confident that the driver actually
comes from the publisher it claims to and that it has not been altered,”
said Eric Damery, Vice President of Software Product Management for Freedom
Scientific. “This is important, as one of the most insidious ways that computers
come under attack is through malicious rootkits, programs that install at the
device driver level and take over the entire system. Such programs can be
very difficult to detect since they cannot be found with traditional security
scans, such as anti-virus or anti-spyware programs.”
For those currently using JAWS with 32-bit Microsoft Windows® and a Braille
display whose driver was included in a previous English version of JAWS, there
will be no change. Freedom Scientific will include signed versions of all those
32-bit drivers in JAWS 11. If you have questions about your Braille display,
please call Freedom Scientific technical support.
However, all Braille display manufacturers will need to develop new 64-bit
drivers to support 64-bit Microsoft Windows - most new computers now come with
64-bit Microsoft Windows preinstalled. To support this effort, Freedom
Scientific created the Secure and Compatible Braille Display Program. The
program
provides a driver development kit for third party Braille display manufacturers
and a test suite that Freedom Scientific will use to ensure compatibility
with JAWS before digitally signing the driver.
Freedom Scientific is the first company in the industry to develop a signed
driver program which improves the security and compatibility of Braille
displays.
Papenmeier, a German manufacturer of Braille displays, has already completed
their 64-bit signed driver, and other Braille display manufacturers are actively
working on 64-bit signed drivers for their Braille displays.
Dirk Kochanek, of Papenmeier in Germany, says, “We at Papenmeier appreciate the
signed driver concept of Freedom Scientific. Signed drivers improve the
security of operating systems and enhance the compatibility of hardware. This
also can help the acceptance of screen reader solutions in the professional
IT environment, especially with large employers. Papenmeier was the first
company to have their drivers certified and signed by Freedom Scientific and
is ready for 64-bit Windows operating systems.”
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