Thanks Rick for your wonderful post. I agree whole heartedly. May The Force be with WindowEyes and all it's great staff! With warm regards, Manny
-- A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962) - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- --- checkout my live performance -- -- -- -- -- ----- -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fbevlz10g Original message: Hi: This has been coming for some time in my opinion. The changes to the accessibility technicals that have occurred over the past 4 or 5 years has been nothing short of astronomical. The implementation of UIA replacing MSAA and of html5, new CSS and other "voluntary" standards would, in my opinion, require some massive programming efforts and a huge learning curve for many accessibility pros. I don’t have a crystal ball to know when, or if, these changes will become familiar and comfortable for accessibility programmers to work with but I believe it would take some time indeed. We are talking some rather fundemental changes outside of legacy accessibility hooks for them to implement in their existing code base. If WE continues I would expect a long duration while newer technicals are folded into practice and to just tweak existing code to make things temporarly better are a waste of valuable time and money while rushing to get everything analyzed, planned and then programmed and tested for the next 10 year timeframe. In the meantime I would expect not much from the company since the analysis and planning is not something they would, nobody does, share with clients. If WE survives this huge transformation I expect the programmers I have come to respect over the years to be up to the challenge - although they may be driving the cost of Tylonal and asprin up a little while putting it all together in some type of comprehensible, structured plan. It may be too much due to the smaller client base, greenies, for the company to view as acceptible investment - I just don’t know and my crystal ball is pretty cloudy these days. I have found Doug, Aaron and the others to be some of the best, most reputable and helpful professionals around this industry. Whatever happens downline we all should support them since they have earned our loyalty over many years. I have plenty of issues with WE as it now stands but if making it work can be done I believe they can, and if allowed, will get the job done. That’s all I have but wanted to post this so the guys at WE know that whatever happens I appreciate how well they have treated us over the years and that I look forward to working with them for many more years. Rick USA -----Original Message----- From: Darrell Bowles [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:52 AM To: GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv Subject: the silence is deafening Well, hello list, since this is such a hot topic of intrest, I'm going to throw my 2 sence in. I don't think that window-eyes has gone down the tube as it were. If it did, trust me, it would be all over the AT news, and I think gw micro (AIsquared), would have announced it. As far as development goes, it is actually good that AISquared, is not under Strengent timelines to develop, as it allows them to make sure that there product is the best it could be.What is interesting though, is what was mensioned about windows 10 and narrator, being better than window-eyes or NVDA for that matter? Well, I have tested the technical preview, and if they are going to make narrator better than Window-eyes or NVDA, they'd better get a move on, and fast. Since there is still talks of a window-eyes 9, I would presume it is still being actively developed. And if AI wanted to hand-off the development to microsoft, do you think that would have not been announced? Seriously, I understand the conserns, as I too am wondering about the development, but to presume that eh product had died, is kind of silly, since Mr. Clower still posts to this list, and if he didn't have his job, I don't think he would still be known as a technical support specialist. All your souls be still, because I am quite sure that a window-eyes 9 will definetly be released. I do not know when, or how long it is until the date, but rest and be pacient, it is coming! If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. 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