Malte wrote:

> ZoomText supports Java Accessibility much better!

JAWS has much greater market share than ZoomText has.

Also need to look at:
i) HAL / Dolphin Software
ii) Look Out / Choice Technology;
iii) WindowEyes
iv) Virgo / Baum
v) BRLTTY / FLOSS (?)
vi) EmacSpeak /
vii) Suse-BLinux / SUSE
viii) VoiceOver (Macintosh)

> please file bugs to Freedom Scientific, we can't work around them.

The only bug reports that Freedom Scientific takes seriously are those
filed by corporate users.   [Their apparent working assumption, which
probably is legitimate, is that all home users who have JAWS are using
either a pirated version of JAWS, or a version that has reached the
end of its life.  Not many people who use JAWS can afford to buy the
updates.]

> - Not every issue flagged with Accessibility keyword means that there is 
> really a big problem

"Big" is very much the perception of the beholder.  For blind users,
things that might appear to be trivial, can have major consequences.  
[Consider, for example, a warning message in its own box popping up on
a computer screen.  If the blind person doesn't know that the  message
is there, from their perspective, the computer system has crashed, and
none of their data has been saved.]

> Would be nice to see more people testing Accessibility on GNOME :)

When will GNOME be available for Windows?

I'm not sure who wrote:

> Problem is not technical Accessibility, in Mass they talk about *efficiency*
> We can't do much in OOo for improving this, this is in the hand of AT 
> companies!

i) Write a JAWS script for OOo.
ii) Help develop of FLOSS screen reader for Windows;

xan

jonathon
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