I have to agree with you Jim. I too have tried the competition, and keep the
other one here at the University since I have a couple of students who are
familiar with it, and so, mgith have questions about it. But, personally I
agree that this is the top screen reader for many reasons of which are
obious. The fact that you can customize it the way you can is definitely a
big attractor. The only thing about this screenreader that drives me crazy
sometimes is the fact of the authorization disk. The authorization makes me
crazy when A it doesn't work as it's supposed too, B when you install, the
software sometimes seems like it thinks if you don't install it you are
stealing it or something. But, that's a minor thing, compared to the power
and flexibility that it has. I wondered there for a while, but 331.35 has
changed my mind and that's all I use. The lab here at the University has
just got it installed, and some of the students who have used the other one,
or haven't used anything really are impressed to the point of considering it
as their own use. It is defintely more stable than it used to be. I hope Hj
keeps up the good work, and I will be carefull of lurking opportunists. I
have seen them on other lists as well. I hope one of them doesn't get me on
here for this. Talk to you guys later.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 11:13 AM
Subject: Opportunists are Lerking
> A warning too all of you.
>
> I think I have become famous, now that my comments have appeared in the
> WyfiWyg so-called news letter.
>
> Several weeks ago, I posted some comments here expressing my concerns
> that HJ was not taking the necessary steps to prevent loss of quality as
> they brought out new releases. In those remarks, I said, among other
> things, that quality was a general problem throughout this industry
> (meaning PC software in general), but that a screen reader was more
> important to the blind user than your typical application because it was
> the window through which all other things passed. So, I reasoned, a
> screen reader must exhibit better than normal quality.
>
> My comments were not balanced. They were, in fact, deliberately focused
> on the problem of quality to raise public awareness of quality as a key
> factor in our strategy for success in all our lives. My target audience
> was, not only members of this list, people who are familiar with Jaws and
> it's tremendous capabilities, but the staff of HJ itself. I wished to
> create an atmosphere where excellence was a primary goal for all
> concerned, so that programs and procedures would be put in place to
> insure improvement in this area. I pointed out some ways in which this
> might be accomplished. But, I did not focus heavily on why JFW is the
> best screen reader available, although I clearly do think it is. I
> thought everybody knew that, so it did not bear repeating. My target
> audience was not the general population of uncommitted future screen
> reader users.
>
> Unfortunately for me, peter Duran, an obvious Jaws detractor, was lurking
> on the list. He chose to lift my remarks, without my permission or
> knowledge, and reproduce them in his WyfiRag publication. He framed my
> remarks in a light obviously intended to cast aspersions on the JFW
> product, presumably in favor of his own favorite screen reader. This was
> never my intent, and violates my own wishes.
>
> So, a warning to all of you who like to sound off on various issues from
> time to time. Remember that Peter is lurking, and he and his kind are
> not above appropriating your remarks for their own purposes if it suits
> them. This has caused some political problems for me, a fact Peter
> surely failed to consider, or, perhaps, chose to ignore.
>
> I do not retract anything I said in that posting. I think quality is a
> serious issue. But, I have since learned that important strides in that
> direction are being made at HJ, the benefits of which those of us who use
> the world's most powerful screen reader will definitely enjoy.
>
> For the record, I have tried the competition, and I am convinced that JFW
> is the best screen reader available. With it's terrific grade 2 Braille
> support through which you actually can "Feel What You Get", and it's
> unique and incredibly powerful script language through which you can
> customize the interface to your favorite application for optimal
> efficiency and maximum productivity, JFW is clearly the best choice. No
> other screen reader does all of that. That is why I push as hard as I do
> to make it even better.
>
> Peter, if you would like to quote the above in your next edition, just
> contact me.
>
> Jim Snowbarger
>
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