Christina, i will give you 2 examples, and i am sure you will have no problems in understanding them both. 1 is W E, it costs money, and lets be brutally honest, if you are blind money usually is not exactly something you are swimming in. It is a downside, i am not going too say much about W E, because i don't like it, it is against my way of seeing things. 2, NVDA is open source, it means that the code is free if i am right. as i write this i am actually not sure if it is truly fully free too change code on, but i do believe so. On one hand we have a closed sourced screenreader, and that is all good as far as that goes, that is of course included its up and downsides. I am personally suspecting the reason they have paired up with Microsoft is that they want it out too more users for a lower cost for the end user. I can be wrong, but seldom am. Personally i use a old copy of xp, use it for scanning when that is needed. It means that i get OSX as my main system, with windows on the top of that . I think overall what cost me most was the mac book air, and a license for vmware fusion. So if i should go out and buy one more program it would simply not work for me financially. And that is here open source and free code comes into space:)
Sandi On 1/20/14, Christina C. <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not understand all of the ins and outs of this but overall it appears > to be a positive thing for blind and visually impaired as well as for others > with various disabilities and challenges requiring adaptive software and > equipment. I did crack up at the line about being leaders. LOL! They are > behind the ball if you ask me. I love apple and my mac and that is where my > loyalties are at this point. I do think this opens doors and that can always > be a good thing. Maybe this will benefit me in some way in the future > especially since I’d like the ability to use a robust OCR scanning software > with a camera instead of a traditional scanner. Maybe one day I will > consider putting windows on my computer with boot camp or a virtual > environment. So, for me this topic is important to discuss even though I am > a mac user. > > Christina > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
