Computer Update

[dogriver]

Here's the latest on my new computer. It appears to be only screen readers that do not work with this machine. I've tried SAToGo, Window-Eyes, and my screen reader of choice, JAWS. Other programs install without problem. I'm both getting better and better at using Narrator, and hating it more and more, simultaneously.

It must be something with the display adaptor, it's the only solution I can come up with. If I can ever figure out how to re-enable the integrated video card and disable the ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro, I think I'll try that.

Caroline is really emphasizing that she feels I should brave trying to deal with Dell tech support. What are they going to know about screen readers? I've got an e-mail in to Freedom Scientific, in which I have told them everything I can think of that might possibly be relevant. I can't call them from work, and besides, they work during the same hours I do, basically. This really sucks. First I unknowingly buy a computer that can't be expanded with the goodies I bought for it, then the thing won't even work. It's enough to make a grown man cry, but as it is I feel like such a bungling fool, utterly unable to get the slightest thing right. I feel very much like a money-wasting failure.

Comments

[kittytech.livejournal.com]

It'll get straightened out somehow. It has to!!! And, if you'd gone into this knowing you were making a mistake you'd be to blame. As it stands right now, you didn't know. We're all human, and we're all going to make mistakes. We learn from the experience, and hopefully grow in the process. One way or another, you'll get things worked out. *HUGS*

ATI cards and JAWS

[3kitties.livejournal.com]

If you had said ATI before, it would have been a clue... I won't buy anything with an ATI card, ever. Many, many ATI cards are on the JAWS no-no list.