Uh, Aaron, multiple people have asked the same questions and you're
telling them all to call your sales department? Wow ...
I am an Assistive Technology instructor and for a long time now I have
recommended GW products because of their excellence, price and the
service put out by GW. This has changed. Window-eyes is a terrible
product compared to the free alternatives out there and doesn't even
come close to comparing to something like JAWS. The internet has had
issues for over four years and the system used to render web pages is
antiquated and all I see on this list is that this is going to be fixed
in version eight which will cost even more money just so GW can come
close to being relevant, and not even a product that people will
actually buy. I have seen a lot of work on different scripts that
enhance functionality but isn't this just a bandaid to problems that
should have been addressed a long time ago in the screen reader? Is
GWMicro even a relevant and a viable company anymore? What are the
numbers for the people that show up to the trainings? What is there to
even train about when GW's product has so many bugs and lacks many
features that even free screen readers on multiple operating systems
incorporate? Maybe I'm wrong. If I am, can someone show me how I'm
wrong? As for this product, (might as well stay on topic just a bit) I
don't see anyone purchasing this thing. I can get some to most of the
features accomplished with my phone and while the quality may not be as
good it's portable, it's easy to use and above all it doesn't cost 2495
for a basic unit with six buttons. This is an outrageous price, and it
seems to me like GW is scamming its user base and the public to purchase
a product that Freedom Scientific (as much as I hate to say this) has
had for over two years all in the hope that they can increase their
profit margin and maybe continue to compete. OK, I'm done but I am
interested to see how many people agree and how many disagree and most
of all, why. As an Assistive Tech Instructor, I need to know that the
products that I'm going to put the effort into teaching and supporting
are relevant products that an average person will want to use and is
able to afford.
Thanks.
On 11/3/2011 10:46 AM, Aaron Smith wrote:
On 11/3/2011 11:42 AM, David wrote:
The message you Aaron posted, did give little and no answers to most
of these questions;
Our sales department, who wrote the announcements, would be happy to
discuss these and any other questions you have about the product. Feel
free to contact them via [email protected], or even give them a call
at 260-489-3671.
Aaron
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