I used JAWS from 1996 or so to 2007. For me the last straw came in college
in 2007. At the time I was taking a Music Appreciation class and the
instructor made all the assignments available as downloadable PDF files.
This was all well and good except that JAWS, though it would read said
documents, would read each line as one long word, meaning you had to arrow
character by character if you wanted to figure out what the heck the
question was. I was also having issues because while I do like Eloquence for
its responsiveness I do have to take breaks from it occasionally.
Unfortunately the only highish quality Sapi voices JAWS would work with were
either the ScanSoft voices which are admittedly decent, or the AT&T Natural
Voices which I don't care much for. BUt I also had NeoSpeach Kate and Paul
which I bought with a Text Aloud license, and it was hard to get JAWS to
work with those without crashing. You could restart JAWS after the crash and
it would run fine with Kate or Paul until the next time you restarted your
machine. That combined with the PDF issue rather effectively disillusioned
me with JAWS, that and I'd never had the same quality of tech support I've
had with AI Squared on the rare occasions when I've needed to use it. So in
response to a friend's suggestion I downloaded a demo of WIndow-Eyes, I
think this was back in the days of version 5. Anyway I found that not only
would the NeoSpeach voices work I discovered that it read those PDF
documents properly. Yeah I suppose I could have tinkered with JAWS to get it
to do that but the fact that Window-Eyes did it without any tinkering
whatsoever was what sold me. So after trying and failing to get my local
Joke Rehab agency to pay or at least help me pay for a copy of WE I went
with the payment plan and haven't regretted it since.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sky Mundell via Talk
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 9:06 AM
To: 'Tony C' ; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' ; 'Charles Short'
Subject: RE: ranking screen readers
Hi Tony. I agree with you about things that Window-Eyes will do that JAWS
can't do. For example, in 2005, MSN messenger 7.0 came out, and I was using
JAWS, and JAWS would not read the instant messages, etc. so then I
downloaded a demo of Window-Eyes. The first things I noticed was that
Window-Eyes read the messages and everything properly with no scripting, no
tinkering, etc. So, Window-Eyes blew JAWS away in that regard. I also can
remember a couple of things where Window-Eyes blew JAWS. For example, the
placemarker feature.
-----Original Message-----
From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+skyt=shaw...@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Tony C via Talk
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 5:17 AM
To: Charles Short; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: ranking screen readers
I've found quite a bit of things that WE works with that Jaws just won't do.
I was a Jaws user until 2004 when I hosted a website with a friend. We
worked on it together and I was unable to edit and do some other things with
Jaws. My friend was a WE user and he was able to perform the required task
with very little effort. That was when I learned and started using WE. I
kept up my Jaws for a couple of years and now since 2006 I've used nothing
but WE.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Short via Talk
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 7:31 PM
To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com
Subject: ranking screen readers
Imho\, Window-Eyes is the best. I hope that it doesn't get discontinued.
Charlie Short
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