Re: The beginning of the end for jaws?
So I used to hate Jaws with a passion. I only ever used NVDA because it was great and I never had any issues. Every year, we'd have a new version of Jaws with 10 new features nobody would ever use and seemingly more bugs.
Last year though, I noticed they started releasing updates with tons of bug fixes, and last week, I went ahead and shelled the $90 for the home license and I'm actualy finding the experience really pleasant. I feel like in a lot of ways, NVDA is becoming what jaws used to be.
Just earlier this morning, I opened NVDA to test something with Chrome and it did this thing where it loses focus and restarting it is the only way to fix it. I used to constantly have issues like that with Jaws like 5 years ago.
If you're in the US, you don't have to pay $1500 anymore. You only have to pay $90/year and you'll receive updates and the ability to install Jaws on 3 computers, which seems perfectly reasonable to me. I'm disappointed that they haven't rolled that out to other countries yet though.
Anyway, I don't think Jaws or NVDA are going anywhere any time soon. Narrator is pretty cool, and I love what Microsoft is doing with it, but I still feel it's got a ways to go.
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