Hi Sky, Narrator will have braille support soon according to Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer:
https://www.coolblindtech.com/spotlight-interview-with-jenny-lay-flurrie-chief-accessibility-officer-at-microsoft/ She also mentioned the Window-Eyes for Office offer, which implies it won't disappear soon, but this is only my guess. Hth, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sky Mundell via Talk Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 5:16 PM To: 'Vaughan Dodd' <[email protected]>; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <[email protected]>; 'David' <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Steve Clower To add to all of this, NVDA is going to have contracted braille input in grade 2 braille in the next version of it. -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vaughan Dodd via Talk Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 2:10 PM To: 'David'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Steve Clower Happy for us to start speculating - staff turnover is a fact of life, and the context of this has been said well in the message below. For myself: (but only on the home front) I'm stepping up my learning of the Mac, so that if the takeover by VFO was simply to buy out competition to JFW, I won't have to buy a screen reader I would not choose to use. The six months transition is about up, and the evidence from my stand point as being a customer who feels very disenfranchised is that VFO is not a company I would choose to do business with. Vaughan. -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David via Talk Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2016 8:38 a.m. To: [email protected]; Window-Eyes Discussion List; 'Reeva Webb' Subject: Re: Steve Clower People come and go, just like times. :) Big thing is not just that someone leaves, but to what extend someone knowledgeable and experienced comes in, to fill their shoes. And for sure, it adds up to quite a number of staff members, leaving in very short time. Were they forced to, did they decide the new company was not for them, or did they already have plans - just needed an excuse? I do not think anyone of us should start spiculating. I am concerned to see so many leave at the same time, or at least in a shorter period. The words we were told earlier: "no changes for the first six months..." Sure did not stick, did they. But noone could promise such a thing. Personal decisions are hard to predict. yet we all would know, that a company fusion - openly admitted or not - ALWAYS causes slim-downs. One question seems valid here, and that is to what extend this slimming down only took place in the Window-Eyes department, or if it actually found its way all cross the new board. Biggest mistake I find the new company does, is to leave their customers in vain, and speculating. Good information on what is taking place, what would be the plans (if any exists), and how reorganization will affect the customers - all seems to be valid concerns for the market. Had they given us the notice that EVERY staff member of the Window-Eyes team would be dismissed in six months, well then it would have been a sad news, but it at least would have left us all informed. Had they told us open-heartedly, that they were planning to replace them with someone else - over whoever knows how long a time frame - at least we would have known what was going on, hence could have dealt with the facts. But the way it is now, we just keep spiculating. And honestly list members, it is not going to take us anywhere. Sad to see them all leaving, but more concerned what is going to be the replacement, or outcome of it all. For now, I am going to enjoy the screen reader the way it is. Except from that, I have put all further app development for the community on ice, till things are cleared up. And I guess few other developers are going to be overly eager on maintaining and invent apps, long as we do not know what the future of the screen reader will be. Just keep in mind, it is just about six months now, so who knows if we soon will have some more and leading information from the administration department. Whatever will be, I guess noone cares to tell us, until they find it the right time. Smiles. 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