I must admit, the Future of Window Eyes does look like it could be very limited, as in soon to be Discontinued. But, who knows for sure. The Parent Company might be slow and Cumbersome which makes them slow to do anything that gets back to the customers Slow to announce new stuff, slow to bring out Updates, slow to Fix problems etc.
I too am starting to use NVDA a bit more. On my System, NVDA is just a touch slower, and I am still not understanding it way of reading parts of the screen, at least not consistently. email, MS Word and the Internet all seem to read well enough. Some times a bit too much is spoken, and I am still learning how to make NVDA speak less. And to be fair, NVDA is not Free, but you can obtain it for Free, use it, and if you like it, then the owners and creators of NVDA would love to see a Donation come their way. Money does motivate the continued improvement of their product. If more money had been coming into GW Micro, then A I Squared would not have bought GW Micro. and this discussion would never have taken place. I doubt if any of us would work for Free indefinitely. And the guys who have put NVDA together would not put in so much effort into NVDA if they did not receive enough to make it worth their time and energy. The thing about NVDA is that you can donate $50 and the guys will be grateful. $50 is cheaper than $1300 for JAWS. NVDA doesn't do everything JAWS does, but to be honest, I do not need NVDA to do everything JAWS does. Each person will need to find out if NVDA will do everything they need it to do. If it doesn't, and we all find out that Window Eyes is truly Dead, then those needing more will need to start saving up for their copy of JAWS, whether they like it or not. I have two programs that NVDA will not read. Window Eyes will read one of them, and when JAWS 18 has a Demo, I intend to try it, to see if it will read both of these programs. If it does, against my will, I will need to purchase a copy of JAWS. I might object, but if I wish to use these programs, then I have no choice. Time will tell what the Future of Window Eyes will be, and whether or not we each need to see what we can find to replace a decent and respectable Screen Reader. There are other choices than NVDA and JAWS, although, I know nothing about them. And since I rarely hear of them, I assume they are not all that good. Maybe some of you here have experience with some of the other choices in Screen Readers? Grumpy Dave _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
