Jaws 18 is out and should have a demo.
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From: Talk
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On Behalf Of Dave via Talk
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 1:51 PM
To: A I Squared Support
Subject: Future of WE
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
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