To be honest with you I feel the same way.
I have been a loyal jaws, and window eyes user for over a decade and I
am finding that Voiceover handels web content better then the windows
screen readers now a days.
Also the cost of the screen reader in a mac is free and is also
constantly updated and when a new Mac OS comes out you don't have to pay
for the upgrades for the screen reader.
On 4/4/2017 5:04 AM, Tony C via Talk wrote:
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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