Remember that VoiceOver for iOS and VoiceOver for the Mac are two different
screen readers running with different constraints. Marco Zehe, a blind web
developer who works for Mozilla, wrote a blog a year or so ago about why he
was switching from the Mac back to Windows.
There are all sorts of opinions on this subject, and I don't think that any
screader/browser combination is the best one for very long. Last summer one
web tester I know said that the combination of NVDA with Firefox was the
closes one could come to meeting the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines of
the Worldwide Web Consortium. Of course that was last summer, but she was
including Apple products in that statement.
I hope sombody fixes App Central. This is as important to the survival of
Window-Eyes as anything else right now.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony C via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 6:04 AM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: makeing the switch
Well, I guess I’ve fought it for as long as I can. I’ve refused for several
years to consider switching to a Mac, but with the apparent demise of Window
Eyes, and Jaws sucking as it always has, I’m going to be making the switch.
I’ve been a loyal WE user since 2004, but it seems that it’s time to teach
an old dog new tricks. lol. I can take my I phone or my I pad mini and have
no problem using programs like Netflix, Slink, and other websites using
Voice Over, that WE and Jaws say hey can’t because the sites aren’t
accessible. I think I’ll keep one of my Windows PC’s with WE on it just so I
can look back and think of all the money I spent just to be left with my
thumb up my nose. When I think of the money I’ve spent maintaining a screen
reader, and now the built in screen reader with the IOS works great with all
those websites that were called by tech support for Jaws and window eyes
“inaccessible”.. I know I may catch some flack for this, but it’s the truth
none the less.I guess VFO thinks they’ve cornered the market on Screen
readers, but I refuse to do business with them, because of who they are and
who they are connected with. I started out with Windows 95 and JFW back in
1995, and I used Jaws up untill 2004 when a friend of mine and myself
started building a web site, he was a WE user and I a Jaws user. I couldn’t
do some of the thing with jaws and Freedom Scientific’s tech support told me
it was because the page builder I was usin was “inaccessible”, but my buddy
with Window eyes could do it. I started using WE to work on the website and
as I got used to it I began using is more and more for other things. I found
that WE worked “out of the box” with more programs than Jaws did. So, in
2004 I became a Window eyes user. now I’m sad to say that the same type of
thing has happened, except this time is between Window eyes Windows and
Voice Over and Mac. I will be buying my first Mac in a couple of months and
telling WE and Windows goodby.
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