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downloadable copy of the "Black Viper" speed Tweaks for windows XP Home and Pro
you can find black vipers work at www.majorgeeks.com, but here are his main two XP tweaks pages in a zipped up text file.
Black Viper XP Tweaks
Screen Readers and windows XP,
this is a pair of help sheets, one for setting up XP to run for most screan readers, the second is for jaws use in XP.
XP Setup for screan readers files!
Screen Readers and windows Vista,
here are the current sheets i have collected from the blind Vista Group for Windows Vista and Screen Reader use, they are unedited, but some folks asked for them, so here they are for your use!
Vista Helpful Notes ZipFile
here is the txt version of the NewsFactor Network article "Google Has Your Data: Should You Be Afraid?" by Jack M. Germain.
download it, read it, and decide for yourself...
Googling it, what happens when you use google search
If you are, or wish to use Partition Magic for work on your computer, and have trouble with there .PDF documentation, or didn't get it, here is a downloadable zip file with the original 2 documents in PDF, the flash presentation which runs on flash player, and 2 translations of the .PDF documents into .txt ones using adobe and Jamal's PDF2TXT program. Please let me know which conversion you think is better, so I can trim this package down some!
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Partition Magic documentation
The Official Windows XP Service Pack 2 "WinXPSP2 Documentation" straight from microsoft and still in its original zip, find out more about what they did to your computer, and some of the "how to undo it's" from this Microsoft Kit.
*NOTE: you must have MS Word, or Word Viewer to Read these, But I can translate on request!.
windows XP SP2_documentation.zip
This Zip is a file on accessing the Information Bar with Jaws 6 and up in Internet Explorer 6 and Service Pack 2 for Windows XP.
A most helpful little bit of stuff to know.
Accessing the information bar.zip
here is a collection of modifications that you can make to Jaws and the Visual Studios.Net IDE, for using it. There are jaws scripts Being Created, and links to the most current ones are posted below, but if you would rather work without scripts, or are a user of Window Eyes, Hal, or some other form of screan reader, or a magnification program, these notations should be of aide.
VS.net IDE's and setting them up for Screen Readers
The group on the Blind Programming.com programming mailing list have been working on a tutorial for the Visually Impaired and using the Visual Studios.net 2005 IDE, this is a work in progress, and i have only the files assembeled for it and the rough draft, but if you wish a copy here it is!
VIVSTutorialWork.zip
Visual Studios Default Shortcut Keys list
In this package, Ken Perry has turned most of the Microsoft VS.net default shortcut keys list into a html file, you can bring it up in VS.net or Internet Explorer and use it while you program. the document is divided up into sections and contains many keystrokes that most never know exist in the IDE. this one was created with a macro that you can find below, and was based on the C++ version of the VS.net ide, Though it will work in most of the Visual Studio's IDE's, including the Express Versions.
VS.Net default shortcut
keys (2005Version) file download
The Compiled Win32 API (Windows 32-bit application programming interface). documentation, Collected and Compiled by: Jamal Mazrui
A set of Extensive, accessible documentation about concepts and functions of the Win32 API Includes examples for several programming languages. Provided in CHM (compiled
HTML) and plain text formats.
Win32 API Documentation
For more information packages created by Jamal Mazrui, on a variety of subjects and programming topics click the link below to go to:
Jamal's Documentation Page
this is a collection of documents on developing games for the visually impaired, but the information is as well useful to programmers developing any type of accessible program! some of the links sighted in the files may not still be valid, this is a collection of works, from assorted sources, including a list of links on useable documents that i have gathered up for developers
accessible Game Development Information
Eclipse
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and
nothing in particular. The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments (IDE's) that can be used to create applications as diverse as web sites,
embedded JavaTM programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise JavaBeansTM and many other
platforms. the ide is extremely accessible with only a few adjustments and a easy learning curve.
Eclips download page
Arachnophilia 4.0
A Powerful Workshop for web development and more. easily accessible right out of the install, with a well built interface and very few trouble spots for visually impaired users. the IDE is also one of the easiest I have seen to use for accurately manipulating and placing of images on a web page.
*Note: version 4.0 is accessible, but unfortunately the author switched to java without using the swing classes in version 5, so it is not accessible.
TextPal
A full featured Text and code editor developed by Jamal Mazrui with careful consideration on the needs of VI programmers. Many of the features of this editor were suggested by programmers on the blind programming list. .
Here is a downloadable listing of the hot keys and features available to you in Text Pal
Get your copy of the phenomenal TextPal Editor!
Note Tab light
Notetab is mainly designed for HTML and XHTML editing,
but it also supports plugins for perl and awk interpreting and expression evaluation.
The rest is pretty standard document and web page editing. It does support
searching by regular expressions and can be adapted to many other uses by some simple scripting.
The Note TabDownloads Page.
Boxer
The editor called Boxer is very good for the blind. The coder who
made boxer has always kept it usable for the blind. In fact back in the
Dos days he was one of the first to do so. Boxer came out with a new release. If
you have tryed the boxer editor before and had problems with it you should
try this new release. He has finally fixed the Boxer help files so
they are microsoft help files. So for the first time since Boxer went
from MsDos to Windows the help files are easily accessible. As for
everything else lets just say he has added about 100 new functions and
options. his web site is:
BoxerSoft.com & the boxer text editor
Crimson Editor
Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows.
built to be fast in loading time, and very small in size (Less than 1.44 Mb), it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java.
Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.
Other features include undo/redo, user tools, macros, spell checker and more.
To see other features of Crimson Editor, visit there web site at:
crimson editor download page
ConTEXT
By Eden Kirin, Freeware
ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers.
Unlimited open files, unlimited editing file size length, 4kB line length, powerful
syntax highlighting for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, and Tcl/Tk.
user defineable syntax highlighter, project workspaces, compiler integration, multilanguage support and many many more features!
Check ConTEXT out for Yourself!
Bloodshed Dev C++
Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler
Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
SharpDevelop
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source (GPL), and you can download both
source code and executables from the site.
The Download Page for the SharpDevelop IDE
MinGW
MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") refers to a set of runtime headers, used in building
a compiler system based on the GNU GCC and binutils projects.
It compiles and links code to be run on Win32 platforms... providing C, C++ and Fortran
compilers plus other related tools(If you see references to "mingw32"
instead of "MinGW", they are referring to the same compiler system(.
DownloadYourCopy of MinGW
The Windows Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA)
*Note: I have no idea how or how good this thing works, I put it here in case it could be helpful to some!
Microsoft says that this program " Converts Java applications to Microsoft Visual C#®".
Try the Java Language Conversion Assistant
here follows some of the text editors that we have discussed, that you can use to hand
program your projects.
Ultra Edit 32
An Advanced editor program that is a combination of Text, HTML, andhex editor.
* Note, i usually try the links out first and found the site for ultra edit rather confusing, so this link takes you to there download page on download.com, where the statistics are much easier to find.
Download.com's UltraEdit Download Page
Text Pad
TextPad® 4.7.3 is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.
The Text Pad Download Page.
Here is a very useful little program Jay Macarty found for us, called PrintKey. it takes a screen shot when you hit the "print screen" button on your keyboard, and will convert it to a .MDI (Microsoft Document
Imaging) format.
the MDI viewer allows you to do
an OCR scan of the image into a Word document, which withMS Word or Word Viewer, means we can read such items our selves
*Note: the OCR included in the MDI viewer is not of the highest quality, so such conversions are likely to have flaws, but its better than before!.
Dounload the PrintKey Program
Here is a useful Macro Found by Ken Perry, which extracts the full list of Keyboard shortcuts available in VS.net IDE's. the instructions and the macro file are included in this self extracting zip file.
Get the Visual Studios IDE shortcut list macro!
Here is the Microsoft "Bootstrapper" Plugin for the Visual Studio 2003 MSI installer. It adds the ability for the MSI installer to check for the .net framework and the newer ado database
dll's necessary to run VS.net built programs, and will install them if there not there
automatically.
MSI Bootstrapper Add in.
To make it handy for you, I also have the Microsoft Active Accessibility Downloads
packaged up and ready to go, this includes the MSAA SDK, The redistributable package, and a
set of Accessible format documentation on the MSAA SDK.
Accessible version of the MSAA
SDK.
For those of you Still working in VB 6, I have the Direct X 8 SDK, Which contains code
examples for VB 6. You will want to upgrade to Direct X 9.0 eventually, but this can give
you an idea of where to start.
Microsofts Direct X 8.0 SDK Installer
One of the members, Jamal Mazrui on the programming list run by www.blindprogramming.com, has produced a number of accessible programs to fill some of the needs of the VI programming community, along with being a contributor in the ongoing effort to generate some comprehensive jaws scripts for the Visual Studios 2005 IDE (see below).
Here is a set of links to the various programs he has developed:
* NOTE: from jamal:
"Anyone may publicize or distribute these programs in almost any manner (licenses are GPL or
Public domain except for PDF2TXT, which is closed source mainly due to
Inclusion of a commercial library, but the binary may still be freely
Distributed)."
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Layout by Code.net
This is the Version 1.1 release of a library of convenience functions I wrote for easier development of accessible graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in
.NET 2.0 languages. The C# source code is freely available for inspection and modification. It may also help teach coding techniques of interest to
others. I'm still learning C#, so the library will hopefully improve over time.
Documentation for LBC.Net:
LBC.net documentation in a zip file
Application files:
LBC.net Application Files Download
Layout by Code
AutoIt library for layout of graphical user interfaces by function calls
Rather than visual designers.
Download Layout By Code
EdSharp
EdSharp is a free, open source, and highly productive text editor that
works on almost any version of Windows. It is rich in features, quick in
performance, and accessible by design.
To see a list of EdSharp features look at the:
EdSharp features page
To download your copy of EdSharp:
EdSharp download link
HomerKit
HomerKit is a free, open source set of tools to aid the development of scripts for the JAWS screen reader (version 6.2 and above). It includes an extensive library of functions written in the JAWS scripting language. Functions promote access and productivity by JAWS users and script developers by exploiting MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility), the Windows Script Host, and the Win32 API.
for a self installing version of the homerKit:
HomerKit self installing package
or for a manual/selective install
HomerKit Manual install files
and for more jaws scripting information and tools, take a look at my JAWS Scripting Page:
Jaws Scripting Tools and Information Page
CHM2TXT
CHM2TXT (chm2txt.exe) is a command line
utility that converts a file from Compiled HTML format (.chm) to
structured text (.txt).
CHM 2 TXT Download
DbDialog
A general purpose database manager, including a default Contact table.
Download DB Dialog
IniForm
Developer tool for defining forms/dialogs with .ini files.
Download Ini Form
JAWS Script Exchange
Program for installing 3rd party JAWS scripts from a zip archive or Creating an executable package of scripts to distribute. This Program includes a sub Option, so if they have more than one version of jaws on there machine, it will give them a menu of the versions to select from.
Download Jaws Script Exchange
PDF to TXT
A program for single or batch conversion of PDF's to text, the source can be a file, folder, or web page
Download PDF to TXT
WinDig
A utility to extract as much information as possible from an application's
Main window, including; manufacture and version information,Built in hot keys, and much more.
Download Win Dig
PerlEval
This is a COM library that wraps the power of the Perl interpreter and
its most useful Win32 libraries. It was motivated by the desire to add
considerable power to the JAWS scripting language, but can be used by
any language that supports COM automation.
Get PerlEvil Here
Hope these are helpful,
Jamal Mazrui
* Note: to contact Jamal, see My Contact Page.
ah, folks, maybe one of you could help me out with this section, if you know of any we set files for the types of stuff we work on, Please! send me a copy.
Jaws Visual Studios 2005 Scripts
the still under development Jaws Scripts for Visual Studio 2005. There are too many people that need thanks for these scripts for me to list them, so I'll just say a general thanks to all!
the scripts are updated often, so come back and get a fresh copy every once in a while, or if your not on the programming@blindprogramming.com list, join us (See link Below), and find out what is going on with the script development, and other programming topics.
For a self installing jaws script installer, developed by Jamal Mazrui, use this link:
Executable Visual Studios 2005 self installer
Or, for a zip file containing the Script files:
Visual Studios 2005 Zip Archive
The hard to get the address too, Jaws 5.X and 6.X add in's for Visual Studio 2002 or 2003.net and some helpful
hints files
*Note: be aware, you can only run one set of this Add in, so if you have more than one
version of jaws on your computer, choose which version your going to use with VS.net, and
install that add in!
Add in for JAWS 5.X(for VS.net 2002 and
2003)
Add in for JAWS 6.X and 7(for VS.net 2003
only)
*NOTE: The Jaws add in is not needed with the VS.net 2005 or the VS Express versions, do not install a JAWS Add in if your using one of the 2005 development versions...
A fine set of Scripts for Jaws 6, 7, and 8 for VB 6, originally created by Freedom Scientific, added to by Dean Schmidt, and cleaned up and recompiled by Warren Jakes and Greg Epley
VB 6 Scripts for Jaws 6, 7, & 8
and the same scripts for Jaws 4 and 5:
VB 6 Scripts for Jaws 4 and 5
Some better than most Jaws Scripts For Notepad in windows 98, ME, and 2000, these
scripts give you the functional keyboard shortcut keys of more major word processors in the
stock Microsoft note pad program.
Note Tab 98/ME/2000 Scripts For Jaws 4.X
Note Tab 98/ME/2000 Scripts For Jaws 5.X
you can use the following Chat Clients On This and Many other chats:
The Powerful mIRC Client Visually Impaired users can add the mircspeech 1.8.0 adaptation for JAWS Another add on to make mIRC more VI friendly is the talking IRC (or TIRC) add on created by two young programmers named Ace and Mo, test it out and see if you like it. You can try it out on there Chat Site at: irc.talkingirc.net, Or use this link to visit the website. another Usable simple IRC Client is the Still under development Icemaster IRC client visit Eldridge Programming'sMP3 Vault for your sound and Streaming Audio Needs