IN the end, the VFO group won the battle! Everyone will be forced to use
jaws or nvda. My question is, when does the MS Office support end?
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From: Michael Capelle via Talk
Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 8:44 AM
To: Reeva Webb ; Window-Eyes Discussion List ; Darrell Bowles
Subject: Re: Future Of Window-Eyes
this is true, jfw is the primary screen reader.
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From: Reeva Webb via Talk
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 8:34 AM
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...and the following tweet i just saw in my tl. Take it for what you want:
@mikelauf1: @Robbie Sandberg : Window Eyes to be phased out when MS Office
support ends, says Eric Damery at SightCity VFO booth
https://www.swarmapp.com/c/8msayoEvRx8
https://twitter.com/mikelauf1/status/860573700210532354
that is all.
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night has just begun, so sing with me we're all fucked" Walls Of Jericho
Reeva
On May 6, 2017 9:19 AM, "Darrell Bowles via Talk" <
talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
While the support is no means complete, NVDA had it long before the main
companies did.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 6, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Matthew Dyer via Talk <
talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
Hi,
While jaws does not support edge as of yet, it is being worked on and
infact there is an fs cast whare a recording was done at the CSUN confrence
demoing edge support using an internmal build ofcorse so yes it is comming.
Mathew
On 05/05/2017 08:03 PM, Darrell Bowles via Talk wrote:
When this merger happened, I made a statement that WE would be let go.
Everyone kind of said that that would not happen. If this does happen, it
will be an absolute shame, because I found out two things regarding
developments in JAWS, and NVDA. NVDA has some support for Microsoft edge,
and it also supports adobe connect, quite nicely. Furthermore, JAWS does
not as of this time, support either of these programs.
Thanks,
Darrell
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On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad via Talk
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 7:38 PM
To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com
Subject: Re: Future Of Window-Eyes
If this does come to fruition, the great thing is that
people have choices and they're not tied to just one thing.
They can a. switch to a different screenreader such as NVDA, and cut
the costs of SMA's and other software agreements.
b. They can switch to jaws, although I suspect for various and sundry
reasons a lot of people don't want to do that, because they chose
Window-eyes for a reason, but the choice is still there.
C. they can switch to a low-cost sollution like System access, yes it
is still under development under the sero name. It still gets updates
and is maintained.
D.
The people who still want to, can always stick with Window-eyes. The
only part
of this choice that concerns me is that soon enough, it won't be able
to keep up with many of the advances on the internet and
newly-released software. If development ceases completely, they may as
well just make it free, throw it out there and say ok, have at it.
We will just have to see what happens until VFO is ready to make a
statement. Until then it's buisness as usual.
On 5/5/2017 6:27 PM, Robert Ringwald via Talk wrote:
Please understand that what I am about to write here is not at all an
official statement or position from VFO regarding the future of Window-Eyes.
Yesterday Friday May 4, I had an occasion to call VFO. I was lucky to
get a VFO tech who was pretty knowledgeable about Window-Eyes.
While waiting for my computer to reboot, just to see what his response
would be, I asked him what he thought or knew about the future of
Window-Eyes at VFO.
He said that he had not heard anything official from the powers that
be. However, he thought that there would be no more development on WE. He
suspected that the owners of WE would be offered a deal to switch over to
Jaws.
Again, please keep in mind that he is just a tech at the company. He
has heard no official pronouncements from the powers that be in the company.
Yesterday Friday May 4, I had an occasion to call VFO. I got a VFO tech
who was pretty knowledgeable about Window-Eyes.
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