Hi Kai, Yeah, I've seen that kind of backwards mentality before too. When I was still at Wright State, it must have been around 1999, I was looking for a screen reader for Windows 2000, since that was the most recent and most stable development platform, and I pretty much got the same answer you did. Everyone is using 95, 98, and Jaws and Window-Eyes were looking primarily at supporting Millennium while the tech types like me who needed the NT/2000 Pro platforms for college were pretty much left on the side lines. Then, even when Jaws did support Win 2000 they wanted double the price of a standard upgrade. Never mind that Windows XP itself is based on the NT platform and is an upgrade of Win 2000 and not Windows 9x. However, I see why most VI users shy away from emerging technologies, because the agencies and companies that are suppose to be helping us hold us back.
On 1/13/11, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings Thomas. > > I remember when I called Freedom Scientific around the time XP started, > asking them if they had a version of Jaws that worked with the then-new > operating system. their response was along the lines of: No we don't, since > no one uses it. Our clients are using Windows 95 or 98. > > Mind you, XP had already been out for a while. I think it's that mentality > of purposeful ostracism that makes it no mystery why visually impaired folk > are still happy to use proprietary devices built on aging OS's like Windows > CE, which cost about (at a generous estimation) 10 to 20 times the cost of > the electronics inside them. > > Kai > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
