With no future development of Window-Eyes, that means window-eyes will never
work with the Edge browser?
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From: Rod Hutton via Talk
Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 1:56 PM
To: Vaughan Dodd ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: RE: Future Of Window-Eyes
Vaughan,
NVDA and Window-Eyes both have a scripting facility. This makes them
customizable to deal with changing developments in software.
There are limits, of course, such that if text is not available to the
screen reader, then scripting won't help.
However, I do believe it is misleading to say that either of the two screen
readers I mentioned above wil be unable to handle future developments.
I think it depends on how much scripters are willing to invest in
configuring them.
Rod
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Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 4:41 PM
To: Loy <[email protected]>; Window-Eyes Discussion List
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Subject: RE: Future Of Window-Eyes
My guess is that things just come down to normal supply and demand. The
customer demand has always been for JAWS. If there is no demand for a
product, its business cannot grow. If it cannot grow, it cannot develop new
products.
The old GW Micro was in financial trouble. To begin with - I thought the
Office Deal was of dubious value. It sihgnaled that that paying customers
were not meeting the cash flow requirements. And: whilst I was a fan of the
SMA (I still have two counts) as a way of encouraging loyalty from
indivivduals, the Office deal trashed that.
So: we are left with what we have - for all the moaning - Freedom Scientific
ran a better business. We have three free screen readers - Narrator whose
development is progressing, NVDA with a loyal user base, and which is still
being developed, and Window-eyes. The free screen readers which continue to
be developed will get user support. But: none of them truly jmeet the
modern professional's need for sophistication and customisation.
Vaughan.
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Sent: Monday, 8 May 2017 6:27 a.m.
To: Darrell Bowles; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Future Of Window-Eyes
My question is why would a company pay for a company that only has one
product "Window Eyes" then shut down the product.?
----- Original Message -----
From: Darrell Bowles via Talk
To: Dave ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Future Of Window-Eyes
If the company had asked for a donation, I would have gladly given it.
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> On May 7, 2017, at 1:15 PM, Dave via Talk <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> GW Micro must have been suffering from Cash Flow problems. The question
> then is, how to attract more customers. The more customers, the better
> the cash flow.
>
> I have suspected the Window Eyes program was due for a Re-write from the
> ground up, but this costs lots of money, and can take a couple of years
> to do it right. Not enough cash, and they ran out of time to do it.
>
> I doubt if there was anything the Users of Window Eyes could have done,
> unless we all were willing to donate $500 to the cause, and even then,
> it may not have been enough.
>
> Protesting and getting as many people to agree with you doesn't get much
> in the long run, other than make all of the participants feel good about
> themselves. However, the end result is nothing different than what has
> taken place.
>
> I too wish it were different.
>
> Grumpy Dave
>
>
>
> --
> Dave <[email protected]>
>
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