Hi Charles,
Well, I can definitely say that Freedom Scientific is full of crap.
Window-Eyes does a fairly decent job of following the mouse and
identifying what is under the mouse pointer so I don't see why Jaws
couldn't do it. I think its Freedom Scientific's view that following the
mouse pointer is unnecessary that is the real issue.
Not only that but the Orca screen reader for Linux, which is totally
free, has an option to enable mouse tracking. Its actually gotten so
good lately that I've been able to use my touchpad to move the mouse
around Ubuntu 12.04 and have Orca announce exactly what is under the
mouse pointer and let me point and click on things inside many applications.
Obviously, one would think if Window-eyes could do it for Windows and
Orca can do it on Linux Jaws could certainly have a similar feature, but
Freedom Scientific just continues to give excuses why it can't be done.
I'm afraid to say when it comes to touchscreen technology Jaws users
will be in no better position with a touchscreen than they are with a
mouse. GW Micro has at least mentioned they are looking at supporting
touchscreens in the future, and I'm pretty sure if Ubuntu Linux ends up
being incorporated into more touchscreen devices Orca will similarly
have to be updated to handle touchscreens as well. The way Freedom
Scientific is Jaws will be the last to implement touchscreen support,
and when they do they'll act like they are the first screen reader to
have supported touchscreen technology.
Cheers!
On 4/22/2012 12:25 PM, Charles Rivard wrote:
Several years ago, I asked a Freedom Scientific tech about getting the
JAWS or PC cursor to follow a mouse pointer and was told that because
there are so many different shapes, colors, and sizes of mouse
pointers, it would cost half a million dollars to implement the
feature into the screen reader. Again, this was several years ago. I
didn't believe it then, and don't now. However, the touch screen
cursor might be similar to a mouse pointer?
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