Olusegun,
In reference to your previous message, no one has cracked JAWS. They're
cracking the authorization code scheme. They're not getting access to
one line of code for the program.
Regarding Office for Android and iOS? Those programs were not ported.
The definition of porting a program is to move it from one platform to
another platform. For lack of a better term, full blown operating
systems and mobile operating systems are very different platforms.
Porting a Windows program to Mac or vice versa is one thing, but porting
a Windows program to any mobile OS isn't going to happen. Slimmed down
versions of Office were written specifically for Android and iOS. Having
the code is of course of enormous help, but virtually everything works
differently on each platform.
Microsoft has tried to do this in the Visual Studio development
environment, i.e. supposedly having the ability to write cross-platform
mobile apps for Windows mobile, Android, and iOS, and then be able to
test run them on virtual machines. But everyone in the programming world
agrees that it's a poor substitute to say the least as it will often
miss bugs that show up on a real Android or iOS device. And note that
cross platform development is either for full blown operating systems or
mobile operating systems. There is no do it all in one fell swoop
option. Of course Windows mobile apps are fine because they're being
written on their native platform.
There is also platform independent ways of developing programs, which
always cause accessibility problems. But these are for Windows, Mac, and
Linux, not mobile operating systems. Well, they probably do exist but
don't work. I've seen the discussion a thousand times and the answer is
always if you want to develop iOS apps do it on a Mac with their iOS
developer, develop Windows apps on Windows, and if you want to develop
Android apps it's considerably more complicated because there is no
parent OS for Android. This is why new mobile apps are almost always
written for iOS first and slow to emerge on Android. And if that's not
enough, the open source nature of Android makes it more difficult to
develop for because virtually every company who uses it feels compelled
to fiddle with the core operating system, just enough to make it harder
for developers, i.e. an Android app that works fine on a Google device
may or may not work just right on any other Android device.
So full blown operating systems and mobile operating systems are two
different species.
Regards,
Tom
On 8/20/2017 6:03 PM, Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc. via Talk
wrote:
Tom wrote in part:
"It's virtually impossible to crack a big low-level program like
Window-Eyes. And even if someone could there's no such thing as porting it
over to Android."
First, I'll give up on Windows before doing the same with Android. With
Android being an open source project, I choose to be somewhat optimistic
that anything is possible if not now, perhaps before too long.
Second, I can SURF the web on my Shiny, Ancient & Modern Android toy! In
fact, I'm beginning to do it so much better with great results in Android
land than in Windows. Once I grasp a better use of this Android tablet I
have here on my desk, all my Windows computers will have their graves dug.
I'll stick them in their respective graves as soon as the hard drive on
which they reside die naturally. May be that's another five years from
today, but it won't make a difference for me. I don't want them to be
resuscitable.
Third, I wish I were intelligent enough to get into programming! Sadly, I'm
not. Else, I shall have attempted to take on the project myself if nothing
more, but for experimental purposes.
Fourth, Excel, Word and Powerpoint have crept into Android land! These were
once exclusively Windows preserves. My haunch is that if these are
portable, anything is possible with a screen reader as well. Who knows? V
F O could read this and elect to CORNER my thought process by introducing,
you guessed it, Shark for Windows--did I say Shark? Sorry, that should have
been Jaws, but you get my drift! Sounds silly, but I want you to laugh
anyway!!
Sincerely,
Olusegun
Denver, Colorado
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