It's called simple economics. If I write a program and have a customer
base of one hundred million users a one percent gain will generate
sufficient income to support my company and future development. If I
have one thousand users than the price will have to be adjusted relative
to those sales projections.
Like it or not we are blind and due to our blindness a screen-reader
developer has a very small potential customer base. And if they want to
stay in business their products have to support that business. This is
how product pricing works in the free world and why we pay more for
everything that is specifically designed for the blind. They are not
consumer products with a target market of the masses.
Of course we all know this, but we don't like it and some of us choose
to ignore such a simple reality and waste time and energy complaining
about it.
And the reason you often get questions in response to your questions is
that the entire concept of what computers and operating systems once
was, which can be summed up in one word, standards, has reached the
point of being completely ignored from both hardware and software
developers. Consequently many of the problems reported are not across
the board problems that every user experiences. And it is a very
difficult task to track and prioritize problems when so many of them are
experienced by a small number of users and never seen by the rest. Of
course the ratios go up down and all over the place with many of these
problems. Then of course there's a percentage that has nothing to do
with Window-eyes and more to do with it being our scapegoat for every
problem we have on our otherwise perfect systems. And so on and so on ad
infinitum.
Tom
On 9/18/2011 2:03 AM, Tony_C wrote:
Hi Tom,
Well if they can't keep up then why does WE cost almost twice the price
of Win 7?
Every time I have ask a question of Gw I gotten a question in return
instead of an answer. If you don't believe me look back at the digest.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Kingston
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FW: Future of W.E and Windows 8 concerns
It's very simple. Microsoft has a thousand programmers continually
changing things. And even if they're willing to work closely with GW on
what's going on GW doesn't have a thousand programmers to stay on par
with everything Microsoft is continually changing; not to mention all
the other companies they have to work with and programs they have to try
to keep Window-Eyes working with. It's amazing that they're able to do
as well as they do given what they have to deal with in a continually
changing environment.
Regards,
Tom
On 9/17/2011 7:48 PM, Neville wrote:
GW Micro often claim they work closely with companies such as Microsoft
and Mozilla but I often wonder if this arrangement is quite one sided
because it does notn show up in practice.
For example, IE 9 was released but it is still not very accessible using
the latest version of WE. Mozilla's latest versions of Thunderbird and
Firefox are in the same boat.
So, where is the co-operation?
Neville.
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