To help with the discussion on running Read&Write on a network, I asked our technical department for clarification:
As Read & Write is an application which requires audio and video synchronization we do not recommend running it on terminal services, in the same way it would not be advisable to run a video clip over terminal services. Although when running on terminal services the Prediction, Spelling and other features of Read & Write will work, the indocument highlighting and speech features will not perform as they should.
As Read & Write 7 is the only accessibility product which is Microsoft Gold Certified for running on Active Directory, Read & Write 7 can be deployed successfully across a network using Active Directory.
If you have any questions regarding deployment of Read & Write, please contact us by logging your questions on our support site at http://support.texthelp.com/cgi-bin/pdesk.cgi
Best wishes
Jackie Prentice
Texthelp Systems Ltd
www.texthelp.com
Phone : 028 94 428105
Fax : 028 94 428574
>> I guessed as much! Actually, there's a whole lot of stuff that won't work
>> well on default settings, not least the otherwise excellent spell checker
>> that effectively learns the user's phonetic spelling rules and so becomes
>> more helpful as time goes on. There are also the personal dictionaries
>> that
>> I encourage students to create (proper names, foreign phrases, unusual
>> technical terms associated with the discipline they study). Unless the
>> network is able to dedicate server space to each individual user, TextHELP
>> never seems like a sensible option to me: it's not impossible, it's just
>> that network providers are generally unwilling to commit resources to
>> this.
>> Given the pricing, I don't any advantage over installing individual copies
>> on dedicated machines or running them from a small lan within the larger
>> network. I like TextHELP: in general, it seems well designed and
>> relatively
>> bug free but I don't think networking was ever really part of the original
>> design spec.
>> Regards, Bernard
>> Bernard Doherty
>> Assessor
>> East Anglia Regional ACCESS Centre
>> Anglia Polytechnic University
>> East Road
>> Cambridge CB1 1PT
>> 01223 363271 x2534
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Cunningham" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: deregister (Read and Write Software)
>> > Apologies - the last email I sent should have been under the above
>> heading
>> > and not the deregister one!
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Tim Cunningham
>> > Sent: 10 August 2004 13:26
>> > To: 'Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.'
>> > Subject: RE: deregister
>> >
>> > I actually asked the support staff of THR&W whether or not it would be
>> > possible to run the software over a network via Citrix (Terminal
>> Services)
>> a
>> > couple of months ago. The answer they gave me was a simple NO!
>> >
>> > To get it to work on a network, certain aspects of the program would
>> have
>> to
>> > be installed locally on every machine that is on the network - this kind
>> of
>> > defeats the object of installing it on to a network and would be
>> > difficult/impossible for some organisations with 2000+ work stations
>> both
>> on
>> > an often more importantly, off campus/site.
>> >
>> > Without trying it myself I would actually say it might work on the
>> network
>> > as long as you don't mind losing the speech/sound functionality as I
>> believe
>> > the synthesizer would be the function of the program that needs to be
>> > installed locally. As I said, I haven't tried this myself but it might
>> be
>> > worth a shot.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tim Cunningham
>> > Disabilities Support Technician
>> > Student Services
>> > Northumberland Building
>> > Northumbria University
>> > NE1 8ST
>> >
>> > Tel: 0797 497 2954
>> > Email: [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Graham Rice [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> > Sent: 09 August 2004 12:49
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: deregister
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
>> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Judith Jones
>> > Sent: 09 August 2004 12:04
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: deregister
>> >
>> > Please remove me from the mailing list
>> > Thanks
>> > Judith Jones
>> >
>> > ------ Message Ends -----
>> >
>> > Hello Judith
>> >
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>> >
>> > Graham Rice, Technician
>> >
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