Sky,
What happened with Window-Eyes has nothing to do with who was the front
runner. GW merged with AI and had done an enormous amount of work to
integrate Window-Eyes with ZoomText to make transitioning from the
magnifier to a screen reader easier. Then FS walked in and offered a
pile of cash for the company. Those at the top fought it fiercely. But
the board saw dollar signs and said yes.
So, FS does own the code. They have no interest in it. And it will never
see the light of day. First, their egos won't let them show that
Window-Eyes features could make JAWS a better screen reader. And the way
the two screen readers are built is very different. The JAWS program is
just the critical core elements and it depends heavily on scripts for
every day functionality. Window-Eyes is the opposite; scripts are a
convenient method to tweak things.
Two Window-Eyes developers are running the show at Microsoft for
Narrator. So I'm hoping one day it will be a great screen reader. If it
gets scripting it will certainly be a game changer.
Regards,
Tom
On 4/4/2019 1:46 AM, Sky Mundell via Talk wrote:
Glad the whole WE community is doing all it can to keep Window-Eyes alive. I
was thinking about it today and what it would had been like if it had been
the front runner. Maybe somebody will hopefully pick up the actual source
code for it and continue development. Does FS now own the source code? If so
then why not put more features from WE into JAWS? Maybe they don't have the
whole code. Something to think about.
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Subject: Re: Update for the Chrome browser enhancements app.
Glad you like it. Happy surfing.
Tom
On 4/4/2019 12:47 AM, Curtis Delzer via Talk wrote:
nice one, less confusing for WE for sure.
thank you for this.
Curtis Delzer
HS
W B 6 H E F
Rialto, CA
On 4/3/2019 8:32 PM, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote:
In this version I added the ability to toggle off and on the
announcements of suggestions in the address bar as you type. They're
on by default. The hot key is F2. The change will be saved.
Here's the download link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j2co234uo3duwjo/chrome.wepm?dl=1
Regards,
Tom
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