Well my friend the wall street journal doesn't agree with you. Cnet doesn't agree with you the number of people who are blind who are buying android tablits don't agree with you either. You can be wrong if you like. That is your choice. No one cairs one way or the other. Gw micro on the other hand can't afford to be wrong. The market right now is in tablits and phones. The pc doesn't luse anything from the support of tablits and phones. Lets use jaws and NVDA as an example. Jaws just added touch support the method they used to do this was to allow the user to brows threw the object tree using UIA then they added this support on the keyboard. Thus making some programs that need this support like a number of modern apps very accessable from the keyboard. NVDA allows for the browsing of objects in a tree structure on the keyboard using I accessability UIA MSAA they call this object nathagation. Very similar to what synthavoice had with window bridge and the window pad. All they did here was add touch jestures to allow the user to move threw the screen using what was already there. Guess what when they were working on this they found ways to make the features they already had better and gave you access to modern apps. Most computers will come with a touch screen even if they are the old style laptops and ddesktops so why shouldn't a blind person have the option of using these devices if they wish. If gw micro ignores these devices then the blind people who do actually want to use them will not get window-eyes or keep it updated. Sorry if gw micro came to me and said jim we are going to ignore the touch interface for ever and we are just going to focus on the old style pc alone I would probably if what I think is going to happen happens have to say well I loved using window-eyes but it is not going to keep up with what I need it to do. you have to follow the market if you are a company like gw micro and the market is going touch like it or not. Now how does the user of window-eyes gain if they don't want touch buy adding touch support. Well first a person who only has the use of one digit who can not speak who is also blind can use the computer. Because what was done with touch could also be maid to work with the keyboard or a helment or a jesture system when that replaces touch at some point. Programs that don't have good keyboard support might be useable just buy using the added touch commands on a keyboard. Working with touch means that gw micro will at some point have to invest time and effort to get the voice input features of windows working. Something that should have been done a long time ago. Really what do you luse? Oh and if we get to the phone stage where we are running windows pro on a phone you are going to need that touch support. Like I said you can be wrong that is your choice but a company like gw micro can't afford to ignore where the market is going. If they do they will die. Plain and simple. Laptops and desktops has we used to know them are becoming a thing of the past. Tablit phones and hybrid laptops are the now.
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis Long [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 11:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: window eyes on a tablet I see no need for this. Not everyone is going to go by a tablet. Primary focus should be on the pc and laptop if tablet support is added it can't ilimate the pc support Just because a few people want it is everyone going to run out and by one? No so focus absolutely needs to be on the computers. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
