Hi Vaughan: Mostly, I see your point and I would aggree, accept that, if VFO works out a contract with Microsoft which will allow them to create a JAWS For Office, presumably Window-eyes, and therefore Window-eyes for office, will be dead so there will only be two free screen readerws. Also, if WGW Micro created Window-eyes for Office to prevent people from switching to NVDA, wouldn't that reasoning apply to creating a JAWS For Office? Not to say that they will because I highly doubt that that will happen, but maybe it remains a possibility. Kevin Huber and
On 3/29/17, 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:[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/huber.kevin7%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
