Hi. I do understand where you are coming from. In fact a lot of my friends have trialed w.e, and some of them like it, some of them don't like it what soever. For example, I have a friend who is so used to JAWS, that when I gave her Window-Eyes with the office deal the transition seemed hard for her even with the jaw layout so she's now going back to jfw. It seems that no matter what happens and no matter what they did to try and tare down the bariers it still seems like the expensive screen readers like jaws still seem to be dominating a bit of the market. Not yet can we buy a machine, and have equal access out of the box without paying for t he adaptive technology be it a screenreader in jobs, at home we could... but in a job jfw still seems to be dominating the market no matter what happens. I do agree about the lawsute. This lawsute should have just dented the reputation of Freedom scientific and made aisquared/ gwmicro a ledway company
-----Original Message----- From: Vaughan DoddVaughan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 2:44 PM To: Sky Mundell Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: new release of WE expected? Hi Sky. I have at last become very pessimistic about any new release of Window-Eyes. My disolusionment consolidated when they trashed overseas customers for its competition involving Amazon. I will not buy the new synthesisers because we can't make the purchases off line. When I raised this nearly two years ago, I was given the lame excuse that there were issues of fraud. Non-U.S. residents are obviously more like to defraud than U.S. residents. When looking at the preference for JAWS: Henter-Joyce and Freedom Scientific have always been more aggressive with their marketing, and more innovative with the development of new features. The New Zealand Freedom Scientific dealer is more proactive with respect to support to customers, and it seems that FS is more supportive of its dealer. I do not like JAWS. I find it clunky, and although I would prefer that there was a proper development cycle for Window-eyes, and that customers were properly and respectfully treated - I am preparing to conclude that I shall loose my investment. The manual has a feature entitled 'Protecting Your Investment" - very little return on mine in recent years. The industry insiders seem reluctant to provide comment that can assist users to understand the impact of the AI Squared buy-out. I concluded very quickly that in an optimistic way, this might have been a sensible succession plan for GW Micro - that it might mean a financial injection to ensure the future of Window-eyes: staff were not be made redundant (we were told) and expertise would be centred on development. My suggestions fo enhancements have been treated with a lack of engagement by staff through the list. In the specialty area of customer purchased windows screen readers, JAWS has the entire industry to itself. NVDA just seems to unreliable for intensive and extensive access to Windows applications, but I do undersand why NVDA has a loyal fan base. If I am wrong - Window-eyes nine will come soon, and it will be counted against my SMA which was the agreement behind purchasing a software maintenance agreement. GW Micro at its peak was a fine company to work with. It produced an outstanding product, which lead the pack in many areas. Changing business realities may have caught up with it, and as always, customers become the victims of misfortune. Vaughan. Vaughan. On 12/10/2014 08:58 a.m., Sky Mundell wrote: > Hi. Vaum. Yes, the tech industry appears to be passing Window-Eyes by, > but I think this problem will get fixed as we 9.0 comes out and the > agencies realize that squared has a screen reader as well as a > magnifier that they can buy. In all my years as a college, and > high/middle students, Window-Eyes has never been included as an > option. Only the shark was included because the institutions had a lot > of money to getting the shark instead of WE. As a result some students > of the hsark from years ago have tried w.e and they find the switch > very hard, even with the jaws layout, but a few, like myself, and a > few others, has made it. Also keep in mind that a lot of organizations > did evaluate w.e when the office deal came out but they rejected it > and went back to nvda/jaws partly because of it not being standards > compliant. Either way, I still like aisquared/gwmicro and the people > that work there, and w.e as well for some things. When it comes to > audio engineering, and recording, I use caketalking from dancing dots, and the shark. > -----Original Message----- > From: Vaughan Dodd [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:22 PM > To: Edward > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: new release of WE expected? > > But Edward: you can use v8.4 with Firefox. > > The broader question though is that we do need a new Window-eyes > sooner rather than later. The industry appears to be passing Window-eyes by. > > Its shortcomings are more than just with Internet Explorer v11. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 11/10/2014, at 4:51 am, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I hope it comes out soon. I cannot use window eyes 8.4 with ie 11 >> because of all the bugs. >> Edward >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:41 AM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: RE: new release of WE expected? >> >> I think it is likely to coincide with the release of Windows 10. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, John. >> >> >> >> From: Rob Hudson [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 3:03 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: new release of WE expected? >> >> >> >> Not sure, but i'd guess the answer to be whenever it's ready. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: Morne van der Merwe <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 7:05 AM >> >> Subject: new release of WE expected? >> >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> Just for interest sake. 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