FS is not a bad company. I think the main problem with jaws is that
it's full of what programmers call "cruft". Cruft is inefficient code
that has accumulated over many years. I would think it is especially
difficult to avoid cruft with screen readers since they are so
intricately linked to the operating system.
To avoid cruft, you have to have a solid commitment to rewriting stuff
from the ground up once in a while and that is going to be really,
really hard with a screen reader. On the other hand, it does seem as if
jaws is particularly full of cruft even for a screen reader. I suspect
that some of the early coding wasn't that good based on how often it
used to crash.
But, honestly, I think FS's customer support is as good as it gets. The
only complaint I'd have against FS as a company would be that crazy
licensing scheme they had. I am not sure they still do it this way but
if you changed any of the hardware in your PC, you had to re-license. If
you added ram or swapped out a CD-ROM drive, you'd have to re-license jaws.
I guess I'll be finding out soon. I am going to have to start using
VMware's vcenter client and it is optimized for jaws.
On 03/30/2015 06:21 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
You gotta be kidding! regarding Apple and FS. Oh dear god! please
tell me you are! LOL!
Chris.
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*From:* David Chittenden <mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com>
*To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
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*Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2015 3:53 PM
*Subject:* Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8
Hello,
Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen
reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house.
Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once
in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group
for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went
out-of-business.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk
<mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote:
Hello,
On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl <fassl....@gmail.com
<mailto:fassl....@gmail.com>> wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover
in the first place was that the only company making a screen
reader for Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't
survive before voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now.
I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva
Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a
screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access
to the necessary information and it was a few years before it
became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader.
Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to
progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was
still working for me.
I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen
reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer
of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface.
Cheers,
Anne
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