well in a way much that its a pain that all the agencys want you to
use expensive jaws and everyone that uses the agency wants jaws for
everyone because its what you use in a job, if we didn't have overly
expensive software ever we wouldn't need opensource and nvda would not exist.
At 09:19 PM 4/25/2013, you wrote:
Hi Charles,
If you had asked that question a few years ago you might have been
able to make a case of it. As it is these days nobody needs Jaws for
their job. There are free and low cost alternatives such as the NVDA
screen reader which is every bit as good as Jaws, offers scripting
ability, and supports many of the same apps. At least the common ones
like MS Office, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Outlook Express, etc. So
if someone were in a scenario such as you describe where they got a
job with a company operating a computer and needed a decent screen
reader I'd highly recommend they install and use NVDA for the time
being. Then, if they really wanted Jaws they could save up for it and
pay the outrageous price for it.
However, I do take your point though. If it weren't for vocational
rehab centers buying Jaws, Openbook, Magic, etc people would likely be
pirating them left and right because the cost to own and use is beyond
anything a blind student or newly employed blind employee could pay.
If it weren't for open source applications like NVDA and of course the
GNU Linux platform one could probably make a pretty good case for
justifying piracy of access technology. However, open source
alternatives are quickly catching up with their commercial
counterparts and we may see a shift to low cost access software in the
not too distant future.
Cheers!
On 4/25/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote:
> How about this scenario:
>
> With no help from Vocational Rehabilitation staff, I find a job in which
> computer access is required. Now, I need JAWS, and the job starts in 2
> weeks! I cannot buy the program. Do I temporarily pirate and buy it after
>
> a few paychecks? The key word is "temporarily".
>
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