Hey as far a email goes, there are just too many email clients out
there, and too many ways of doing email, these are old protocols that
have been around forever, pop 3, emap, what have you,
so it ain't rocket science.
If enough interest is there, we could bang on gwmicro's door to help
script access to an existing email client,
or hire our own programmers,
I know of several who I work with who'd probably love to have the work,
but if I'm going to hammer on the door for access, I think there's a
lot more important stuff, accounting programs, financial stuff,
productivity apps,
finishing up the office stuff, and of course my personal favorite,
musical and audio engineering applications like sonar and cubass,
protools, and what have you.
One of the reasons jaws has done better in the market is that they
address the dproductivity stuff more than window-eyes has,
and now we can much better because of scripting, but we're playing
catch-up big time.
But I don't want to see our company waste time creating an email client.
Too many reasonably accessible ones already out therew.
All the versions of eudora I've tried work with all versions of
windows I've used.
At 02:36 AM 8/28/2010, Louis wrote:
Kieth I agree with you. A screen reader is by definition a program
that reads material on the screen. It is not an email program. Sure we
want a tool that can do all the things we want of it but that is
unfortunately not possible. In my experience Window Eyes is a great
product and GW Micro is a great company with excelent customer
support. This list, script central, and a human voice helping you with
your problem when you call GW in a prompt and efficient manner are a
few examples that GW shines above the competition. Sure Script Central
is intended to be a community effort but it shows that GW is
passionate about accessibility and realizes their weaknesses and
believe that users should know about them. What company do you know
would say "Hey, we won't be abel to work on scripts for our product
but we'll let you so you can make the product better and customize it
to your own taste while we make under the hood improvements to the
product." I know of very few companies that do this so don't criticize
GW for the faults of Microsoft. They're doing what they can to make
WLM accessible. If you don't like it then write a script yourself, or
if you're someone like me who doesn't know anything about scripting
ask or hire someone to write a better script for you or use a
different program. Let's not make this a bigger issue then it needs to
be. Kieth if you can elaborate on why Window Eyes might die with
Windows 8 I would very much like to hear it. Thanks for reading.
Louis
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