I think you'll find that VFO will not do this. Microsoft funded this, under a contractual basis. The contract supporting the Window-Eyes with Office scheme will most certainly come to an end. The financial backers of VFO are funding the continued development of JFW, and they will expect a return on their investment.
The Window-Eyes for Office deal was a response to the increasing user support for NVDA. The dramatic reduction in the addition of new features and bug fixes for Window-Eyes is due in part to the deal, and people choosing not to purchase Window-Eyes because they had access to two free screen readers. There is no way that there can be three free screenreaders. Think about it: once a JFW for Office deal is struck with Microsoft, there will be clauses - such as - "cannot continue to develop interfaces for products from software competitors" and so forth. Regarding the Orbit thing: emulation of an 18 cell display means you lose 10% of the available realestate. Because the objective of the Orbit project is sound - electronic braille to more people - there will be a JFW driver soon. That driver will probably need to be developed by the Orbit consortium, rather than VFO. VFO won't throw in a free non VFO braille display when you buy JFW. It will develop deals for discounting its own displays. This is partly why Optelec are part of the group. Vaughan. Vaughan. -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+vaughan.dodd001=msd.govt...@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Kennedy via Talk Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 11:07 a.m. To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: orbit20 display and future of window eyes and so this is why the vfo group has to just fold window eyes into jaws or just give us a free jaws for office option. because for some people NVDA does not cut it, and we need something more powerful, yet that is low cost or free. a jaws for office would work fine especially if you need to do stuff in microsoft office. not to mention jaws works good with the orbit reader20 prototype set to refreshabraille18 emulation. window eyes does not work with orbit20 at all. come on vfo group let us use jaws for free if microsoft office is installed on our machines! _______________________________________________ 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/vaughan.dodd001%40msd.govt.nz. 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 ------------------------------- This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this email and attachments is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the author immediately and erase all copies of the email and attachments. The Ministry of Social Development accepts no responsibility for changes made to this message or attachments after transmission from the Ministry. ------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
