I want an app app. When you open a new program, you run the app app and it
solves all accessibility issues with that new program. Although I'd gladly
pay for such a miracle, I wouldn't agree to hold my breath while waiting.
As someone who has been here since vocal eyes 1.0, I'm amazed by how much W
E actually does manage straight out of the box.
sRD
-----Original Message-----
From: Cory Martin
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 12:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Dream app thoughts
Hello all,
Just my two cents on the dream app discussion:
Firstly, I'd love to have an OCR app, as I use VMware player a lot
and it would be useful to be able to see what's going on in that window
assuming screen readers in the VM aren't working. I'm sure I could
think of other practical uses such as image-based PDF's and so on. I
realize that development of such a thing and the licensing of a decent
OCR engine would cost money and thus this could not be a free app
without somehow either charging for the app or charging extra for a
Window Eyes upgrade. As GW-Micro offers lower costing upgrades for
Window Eyes, I'd suggest it being an app purchase which is licensed to
the Window Eyes serial number. That way those who don't want it or
wouldn't use it don't have to buy it. I realize that when Jaws 13 came
out with it's convenient OCR feature GW-Micro said that it would be up
to a third-party developer to make an OCR app, however I think a paid
app like this with a decent comercial OCR engine behind it would be
nice. I also think that perhaps it could pave the way for other add-on
apps like this which might be paid if they provided sufficient
functionality.
That being said, the biggest complaint I hear against Window-Eyes
is it's lack of updated web support and unfortunately that in some areas
of this especially with newer web objects I confess this is true. So
honestly, I'd say that improvement to browse mode and web support is a
priority for me over any other apps at this time as I know that GW-Micro
only have so many people to do the coding work. Hope that version 8
will settle a lot of the web issues and I look forward to seeing where
Window-Eyes goes in the future. I still am glad to be a Window-Eyes user.
Just my two cents.
Cory
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