NVDA is a fine screen reader as well, though I only use the portible version of it
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Beasley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 2:55 PM To: Sky Mundell; 'Chip Orange' Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: The Silence is deafening A lot of us now have moved to NVDA. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sky Mundell" <[email protected]> To: "'Chip Orange'" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 10:31 PM Subject: RE: The Silence is deafening > Hi Chip, I have to agree with you. GW micro has the best tech support in > my > opinion, and they are very friendlier to work with in my opinion. What > most > people are fed up of is that organizations for the blind are not embracing > Window-Eyes, preferring to stick with JAWS. As a result many people are > taught JAWS, and they stick with it for so long that they are so used to > it > and they can't or don't want to learn another one. But I do think that > these > agencies are recommending jaws, not for your benefits, but for their own, > in > my opinion. Also agencies do not know or realize that Window-Eyes can be > scripted. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 2:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: The Silence is deafening > > I'll answer from my customer point of view, and tell you what I am seeing: > > * I'm seeing my copy of Window-Eyes is working, as well as it always has; > it > hasn't suddenly stopped working because they're doing something behind the > scenes with a business reorganization (my employer by the way, seems to go > through a major reorganization every two or three years; these aren't so > unusual). > * I still am getting support for my Window-Eyes. I send email questions, > and I get answers. I see updates to existing apps regularly being posted > (I > think I counted 7 updates in the last two months in a hurried little > survey > I just did as I answer this). > > So, in other words, things are pretty much going along as normal. We're > waiting for the next release (so we always are waiting for the next > release, > from the very first release); we're getting support, and they're working > on > the next release and the reorg both at the same time. What is it that > some > of you are so panicked about? What do you really think is going to happen > as they merge two companies? Do you think all the web sites, mailing > lists, > product literature, etc. is just going to redesign itself? Everything has > to be examined and redesigned, down to the phone system (I work in an IT > shop, and we have to support all this type of stuff, and we have to go > through all our company product and documents etc. every time we have a > reorg). It happens so often to us any more, and it's so much work, we're > now designing documents and checklists just for ourselves to tell us what > needs to be done, checked, etc. just for a reorg. They are tons of work. > > Actually, I don't see anything "reasonable" about this type of email at > all. > It doesn't say anything (other than "I'm in a hurry for the next release", > which people are always saying). > > They will tell us what they can tell us, when they can say it. Until > then, > use the product (which you thought was just fine before you heard there > was > a merger), and continue to get your great customer support (which is still > right where it was), and stop panicking people into thinking that the sky > is > falling. > > I used to be a jaws user years ago; I don't want to even think about going > back, and there's no reason to; but these types of threads imply to > everyone > that soon we'll all have to (despite clear evidence that they're working > hard on the next release and combining two companies with great products). > > Sorry if I don't buy into the panic, but I'm happy with my Window-eyes; my > ability to easily write apps when I want it to do something it doesn't, > and > the friendly "real people" support I get when I have a problem. > > Chip Orange > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Reg Webb [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: The Silence is deafening > > They seem like thoroughly reasonable questions to me. > Would anyone care to answer then? > -- > Reg > <[email protected]> > 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. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > 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. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > 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. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
