this person has a good point, but he has a very bad attitude about it. he
could be polite about it. if I were hj, I would not respond to someone
who wrote me like that.
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:42:58 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hello to the list,
> The following message is from a friend of mine who is not
>currently on the list, however, he wanted to know if anyone else was
>experiencing similar problems with access32.
> Let me say that I do not own access32 and had no part in the
>construction nor later editing of the following message, so it could
>be posted here, I'm just sending it. Please reply privately to me, and
>not on the list.
>Thank you.
>Dave.
>---message separater---
>Subject: Series problems with Access32.
>Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 3:41 PM
>
>Hello, Henter-Joice support, I am Thomas ward, and a user of JFW
>3.2.09 and
>Access32. My Serial number is12026.
>I have two major problems of which I am not only upset or
>dissatisfied, but
>am in fact disgusted by.
>1. The everlock key of which secures my JFW and Dectalk Access is not
>Y2K.
>This infuriates me to no end. One of the only reasons I bought JFW 3.2
>is
>because your web sight says, "Jaws is Y2K," but however everlock is
>not. Oh,
>and guess what if everlock is not Y2K then on Jan 1, 2000 JFW will
>come up
>and say, "Can not speak in restricted mode."
>Which of course means, you guessed it, no blank screen reader, and no
>software synth, because if JFW and Access, and Eloquence run off of
>the same
>piece of blank key none of it will work.
>If that happens I can not use my PC. Now can you question my utter
>disgust?
>I know you have a new auth system named SQCPS which is suppose to be
>Y2K. I
>also have heard you charge $50.00 for it. However, I call it a
>rip-off
>because yourweb sight JFW is Y2K, but it is not. So I feel you could
>help
>yourselves out as well as myself by rectifying this act of false
>advertising.
>2. I use Dectalk Access32 on my laptop, and I would like to use it
>with
>other screen readers such as Window Eyes, Window Bridge, PW Web Speak,
>and
>others besides JFW. Unlike your other clients I actually have the
>sense to
>evaluate other screen readers. A few months ago I e-mailed you asking
>for
>your unlock policy concerning Access32. In short you said put JFW to
>sleep
>mode. However, since then I have been in contact with Synthavoice and
>their
>president unlike Ted Henter had the guts to e-mail me back concerning
>there
>unlock policy. Under their fingerprint system their screen reader,
>Window
>Bridge, does not have to be loaded nor installed as long as a
>fingerprint is
>physically on the hard drive. I have also recently met a Window Eyes
>user
>who has the GW Micro copy of Dectalk Access32. When I compare your
>copy of
>Dectalk Access to Synthavoice or GW Micro's I do not feel your
>so-called
>unlock system is valid, but a pain in the butt.
>Why is it a pain the butt? Well, for starts when I do it your way,
>putting
>JFW to sleep, I get recurring GPF's, lockups, and sometimes no speech
>at
>all. I feel this would not happen if JFW didn't have to be loaded
>into
>memory. "A system that is unstable, and sucks."
>I know this because I downloaded a non-Henter-Joice demo copy of
>Dectalk
>access, and I did not get these problems.You are so-called tech
>support
>peopleput 2 and 2 together.
>I have a feeling you are going to say something about the digital
>license
>agreement you have with them. It calls for an unlock code. Excuse me,
>but
>that piece of blank policy you have I do not feel nor consider an
>executable
>unlock code. I see it as a shaft, and a cheep butted way to get buyers
>to
>either buy JFW or to keep JFW running on their systems.
>Which brings me to a question dear tech support. If I had been a
>Window eyes
>user before a JFW user how would you sell Dectalk access to another
>user
>without that P.O.S. you call JFW?
>So, the way I see it you can do to do few things. 1. you can make my
>Dectalk
>Access Y2K. 2. Unlock the darn thing from your proprietary screen
>reader. 3.
>I give you back the disk and return the money I paid for it.
>
>Thank you Henter-Joice.
>
>Vary sincerely.
>Thomas ward
>
>
>
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