You do not take into account updates to Windows 10, or future enhancements of JAWS. Both could be minor or significant. For example, Windows 10 Edge is not really usable and why they released without accessibility in mind when it is supposedly the default browser makes no sense to me. However, in the future Microsoft may actually understand how to make accessibility work in every product they make and include it just as they include all the eye candy. Notice, I say May there.
If say in a year they have actually found a way for screen readers to hook into Edge and by doing so they can offer us great accessibility, far better even that we have in IE 11, updating JAWS would be essential to those in the workforce for example. If you are going to play in technology, you need to stay at least moderately up-to-date. That said, I have not updated to Windows 10 because I am here alone with no eyes to help if I get in trouble and trust me, lately I find trouble easily. I will eventually get there but, I don't need to do that right now, so it will wait until either I have more confidence in my ability, eyes to assist, or I have no choice. It isn't happening today, probably not even before the New Year but eventually it will. I held onto Windows 98 for a couple of years after XP mainly because it was easy to fix if I had problems being able to reinstall or correct from the disks I had. I held off on Vista until I had to get a new computer. I deliberately bought a new computer about 3 months after Windows 7, but I have not touched 8, in fact, I gave away a Windows 8 computer days after my late husband passed. I bought a laptop for work last spring but, it had to have 7 on it. Right now it is totally messed up from the job I could not keep due to much inaccessible software I had been told would work, some in Silverlight, web forms that hung ... and they truly messed up the laptop. If I upgrade to 10 it will be the first one since I seldom use it, and, in fact, can only use it to a limited degree right now. One reason I don't use it is the keyboard, too flat, large trackpad in front and my arms are short. I have a cordless keyboard also but discovered that often it misinterpreted things. Anyway, I know one cannot stand still, technology moves on, I started with JAWS FOR WINDOWS Thanksgiving weekend in 1998 and I think it was version 2.0 or 3.0. The internet, JAWS itself, programs needed to communicate, work, even play have come a long way in the past 17 years, I can't imagine myself still using that first version of JAWS today. I am only recently retired, but, for me at least keeping my main screen reader up-to-date will remain a part of my toolbox for as long as I can use a computer. Rose Combs [email protected] A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the memory! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws SMA info but if one chooses to just stick with jaws 16.0.4463 running windows 10 won't you be ok forever because microsoft will not be creating any OS higher than 10 and jaws 16.0.4463 works fine. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
