Hmm, Paulette, VoiceOver on the iPhone, TalkBack on Android, will soon
render screen readers worthless in my view. Pretty soon, computers may even
go away except in government offices where nothing ever changes!
Indeed, it's a bitter pill for me to swallow! The death of Window-Eyes may
mean that I'd become jobless. Jaws HAS NEVER worked with my set up here and
for this long, Window-Eyes has kept me at my desk where I make the pennies
that pay the bills and put fruits and veggies on my wee, small table. I
better jealously GUARD my old copies of Window-Eyes because if my computer
crashes, and I need to perform a reinstall, I may not be able to download
one sometime soon from any source.
My SMA expired sometime back; I'd been thinking long and hard about buying
another SMA. But now, I am confused with the hope that my confusion will
somehow be sorted out though I'm not so sure it will ever be done
satisfactorily.
When businesses pander to venture capitalists, this is what happens!
Perhaps GW Micro could have raised enough funds to STAY AWAKE if it had
opted to sell stocks in the open market to source funds for continuous
development. This never happens in the adaptive technology industry.
Constant argument? It's a small niche market of blind folks! I'm still
blind, yet I own a small piece of Avis Rent-A-Car because I purchased its
stocks. I shall certainly have done the same if GW micro had issued an IPO.
I hope the future for blind folks who come after me will be a brilliant one
and they won't have to worry about being let down by screen reader
developers.
Sincerely,
Olusegun
Denver, Colorado
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