Hello Sky. I have listened to both podcasts, and would not be optimistic about the survival of Window-Eyes. I found very little about either podcast to give me even the smallest twinge of excitement about what will be new in JAWS 18 either. Audio Ducking would seem to be the revolutionary new idea for which I will be expected to give eternal thanks for. The software engineers must have lost a lot of sleep in order to come up with that 21st century break through. Good enough idea and useful, but come on chaps, not really worth the price of an SMA To be fair, there was also mention of further development in the support of complex web pages, whatever that means. Oh, and work is to continue on support for the Edge browser. In recent years, the only thing that I can say about Freedom Scientific, is that they no longer fail to disappoint me. Martin
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sky Mundell via Talk Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 1:15 AM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: The future of Window-eyes Hello Window-Eyes users. Sky here. I wanted to update you guys on What's been happening at VFO Group, Particuarly in regards to Zoomtext, and Window-eyes. In September, 2 editions of FSCast came out regarding JAWS 18. One of the features that will be in JAWS 18 will be a talking mouse support. The guys at VFO group has said that They have plans to put the talking mouse support in Zoomtext, and make JAWS work with it. This made me laugh, as first of all, Zoomtext already has Window-eyes in it, called Fusion, secondly, Zoomtext, from my understanding, already has built in mouse support already with Fusion. No menschen of Window-eyes or even Fusion. In the next FSCast, VFO went into more details on JAWS 18 and Zoomtext. What is going to happen is that in Zoomtext 11, JAWS and Zoomtext will be working together. I can honestly tell you that they also plan to put in a talking mouse support for MAGic, which will be released in 2017. This is not a good sign, and besides, Zoomtext and JAWS, would cost a lot more to buy, than it would cost to buy Zoomtext Fusion. At no point in the two FSCasts do they menschen what's going to happen with Window-eyes. If you guys would like to take a look at the two FSCasts, go to http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/FSCast131-JAWS_18_part1 .mp3 and http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/FSCast132-JAWS_18_part2 .mp3 I also want to hear what the senior management from AI Squared have to say on the future. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/mbrown.brown4% 40gmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
