Yet again, don't hold your breath for this to happen.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 5:35 PM Vaughan Dodd via Talk < [email protected]> wrote: > 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= > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Kennedy via Talk > Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 11:07 a.m. > To: [email protected] > 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/jadedangelpromises%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 > -- "The world has been against you from day one, tomorrow's never promised, night has just begun, so sing with me we're all fucked" Walls Of Jericho Reeva _______________________________________________ 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
