At the risk of being shot down, I'm curious for those of you who've switched from JAWS or still use it how it compares to Window Eyes. When I first needed a screen reader and picked Window Eyes it was largely because I was told the customer service was so much better than for JAWS, and I truly was impressed how easy it was to reach someone at GW. This list has been my larger source for WE help, but I've needed to call GW a few times over the years. Let's say that VFO gives me a transfer to JAWS by some miracle. Is that better than NVDA? I guess if there is a group list this for NVDA users and some good sources for learning the program, I'll adjust to that, but so far I've found it very verbose and I don't know the ways to adjust it yet. I completely understand that not having to pay for a screen reader is very tempting, but I don't want that to be my only reason for choosing a screen reader once I cannot use WE anymore.
-----Original Message----- From: Don H [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 9:54 AM To: Van Lant, Robin; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Steve Clower Well I don't like change when it comes to my technology but knowing that WE has no long term future I have began the process of learning to use NVDA. I must say I am very impressed with NVDA and am finding in many cases that NVDA works better than WE. I do have two SMA's left and it will be interesting if they are honored in some way. I would think a cash refund would be in order but having delt with FS in the past know it won't be handled in a way that benefits the user. On 11/23/2016 10:46 AM, Van Lant, Robin via Talk wrote: > Well said, Grumpy Dave. I'm disappointed, but if a business can't make it, > they do what they can. I unfortunately think I paid for an SMA and haven't > used it up, so I'm hoping VFO will give me some sort of credit for that if > I'm told to switch. I've never used JAWS and only played with NVDA a tad. I > don't like transition, so I hope we can support each other as users for as > long as possible. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dave via Talk > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 8:11 PM > To: Don H; Window-Eyes Discussion List > Subject: Re: Steve Clower > > I don't think GW Micro sold its Customer's out. > > Cash Flow has been a problem for a while, and GW Micro started to sell > future Upgrades to make up for the low Cash Flow. JAWS does this, and > I forget what they are called. SMA's? > > Anyway, when you sell future upgrades at a discount, chances are that money > is going to pay today's Pay roll and Expenses, and when Tommorow comes, well > when tomorrow comes, and cash is still short, you start making Crazy Deals > with the Devil. > > Allowing a Free version to anyone owning a copy of MS Office was a > questionable choice for GW Micro to do. Perhaps they received a token > Royalty from Microsoft for every Free Copy Registered. Hard to know, > since no one is telling why that deal with Microsoft was done, and what > GW Micro hoped to gain from it. Money of course, but how? > > I enjoyed dealing with the original cast of Characters at GW Micro. > Good Mid-west values and I think they gave award winning effort when > producing their Screen Reader, and then supporting it after the sale. > > I doubt if GW Micro sold us out. But, when a Company doesn't have the cash > to hire more talent to keep up with the latest Operating System, as well as > everything else GW Micro was doing. > > Hard to really know what the Newest Parent Company intends. This is one of > the problems when getting swallowed by a larger fish, which then > gets swallowed by even a larger fish. 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