Amen!
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcie Brink-Chaney [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 12:16 AM
To: Andre Vosloo
Cc: 'Samuel Wilkins'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Off topic - U.S Federal Workers using Window-Eyes?
I work for Visually Handicapped Services which is a program to train people to
be able to use adaptive software to access their computers. I personally think
that no state or federal government agency should require the use of one
software access program over another. Consumers are supposed to have a choice
in the vocational rehabilitation programs funded by the federal government and
to me, only one screen reading or magnification program purchased or
recommended is no choice. Even the way the criteria for training by the agency
we are contracted to for rehabilitation services states that a person should
receive training for JAWS and does not mention any other adaptive software
programs and this includes magnification is unacceptable. As for the lack of
support for Window Eyes or Jaws, I have never had any problems getting help
from GW Micro and I think there is something wrong when our IT people have been
told that they must call technical support because they are having problems
installing Jaws 11.00. These are the computer gurus and they can't install JAWS
without having problems? They didn't have any problems that I couldn't help
them with when they installed Window Eyes after the upgrade to Windows 7. Not
that I want to put accessibility software companies out of business, but, like
Apple, all computers should have accessibility for everyone out of the box!!!
Marcie Brink-Chaney CVRT
Onn 2/4/2013 3:24 AM, Andre Vosloo wrote:
> Same situation in SA. I tried to convince one of the government
> departments here to use WE, to no avail. The vendor which sells the
> product tells them there is no support for WE, but there is support
> for the shark. I am not surprised, given the amounts he gets paid extra to
> do scripting.
>
> Regards
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Wilkins [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 04 February 2013 10:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Off topic - U.S Federal Workers using Window-Eyes?
>
> Unfortunately, this is not the case everywhere. Here in the UK, as
> far as I know, the major governing bodies only use Jaws and Supernova,
> and they do not know anything about Window-Eyes because of the
> relatively small marketing it has received in the UK. However, I could be
> wrong.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Riehl [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 04 February 2013 02:01
> To: [email protected]; 'Peter Wolfe'; 'gw-info'
> Subject: RE: Off topic - U.S Federal Workers using Window-Eyes?
>
> JAWS is used a lot throughout the Federal Government but it does not
> have a "contract" with the Federal government. I am a Fed and I use
> both JAWS and Windoweyes.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhard Stebner [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 8:30 PM
> To: 'Peter Wolfe'; 'gw-info'
> Subject: RE: Off topic - U.S Federal Workers using Window-Eyes?
>
> I am using both window-eye and JAWS and I am a contractor with HHS.
> What would you like to know?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Wolfe [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 7:45 PM
> To: gw-info
> Subject: Off topic - U.S Federal Workers using Window-Eyes?
>
> Dear all,
>
>
> Does anyone on here work for the U.S federal government using
> Window-Eyes at work? In many many conversations wih people and
> programs that I've attended, it appears that JAWS has a federal
> contract with the federal government. I'm not trained with JAWS Screen
> Reader, so would like to know your advice on whether its worth my
> while to learn JAWS or not for federal employment. I'm just so annoyed
> that I was trained with Window-Eyes and its not even used almost
> anywhere of employment. Can somebody or anybody give me advice on what
> to freakin do. Right now I'm blamed for not knowing JAWS for the IRS training
> program, so I couldn't complete it impart cause of it.
>
>
> This is where the government in my view screws up by picking
> losers and winnersx in things. I wish that Window-Eyes and JAWS could
> work in the federal government. However, the IRS in particular thinks
> that Window-Eyes isn't as powerful as JAWS. I've had two separate
> occasions had Window-Eyes through the Small Business Administration and
> another internship in D.C.
> How many freakin screen readers must we know what should we know or
> what can we do? I'm so so tired of the confusing mess of the
> disorganized Vocational Rehabilitation programs that they are
> obviously failures and us students are blamed for it?
> Thanks for listening just I want work with my social science degree
> just that not even SPSS softwares and other necessary softwares don't
> currently work with Window-Eyes or JAWS and there is no clear answers
> or standards of what we should know to obtain a job or anything.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
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