Too bad, they don't have a one-stop store for the scripts. That really
will be a great miss from the WE App Central. Eventhough certain apps
for WE also have been distributed outside the App Central, it still was
one big resource for getting a hold of what is available.
Last night, I did a search on the net, for Jaws Scripts. Sure enough, a
ton of websites showed up. Here is a couple of reflections, based on my
findings; hoping that any of it would prepare other users what to expect.
First of all, one idea might be for you to do a more specified search. Like:
Jaws scripts Thunderbird
Jaws scripts Itunes
Jaws scripts MSOffice
. This way, you would get more directly to scripts that would cover your
real needs. That is, if you have special needs in a given application.
Of course, this way you will loose out on any scripts for general usage,
or applications you would not even be aware of.
Secondly, I find that many developers seem to spread their scripts a bit
here and there. They might have changed service provider, and not
bothered cleaning up their old stuff. For instance, when searching for:
Jaws Scripts Thunderbird,
I found a handful or two of webpages offering such scripts. When
checking them out, at least a few of them, I found that they would hold
different versions of what seemed to be pretty much the same script. One
was dated from 2009, the next from 2010, and you get the idea. smiles.
This way, it could be really hard for the end-user to know, and ensure,
that he is running the most up-to-date version of the scripts. And
what's more, should the user experience any issue with the script, it
might be hard to get the most recent assistance from others, since you
don't know if their experience is anything more recent. it occurs to me,
that this really is not much in the interest of the developer either,
since he would have much better success in bringing users to town, did
he ensure the people would know where to get the script, and how to
obtain the latest.
Thirdly, I do see a few developers who seemingly have created a handful
of scripts. In such cases, you might want to browse their individual
homepage, to see what they can offer you. Depending on how well the
homepage is designed, and exactly how well it is being maintained, you
will be more or less lucky with your hunt and seek. Even, should you
find a script, all current and up-to-date, you download and install it -
but does Jaws have any feature the developer can set, to have the script
auto-update? Or, will you be left to do another chasing on the net, next
week, to see if you are all current? And what if you have ten scripts,
you might have to spend a whole morning in tracing any new updates? Or,
would any experienced Jaws user please chime in here, and inform us all
of their general experience on the matter.
The little I have seen of Jaws as of yet - still not been offered the
transmission locally - it seems to me, Jaws is on a state where WE was
close to ten years ago. Much could have been said, and was expressed,
about the needs for further improvement on the WE interface and
functionality. But even more could be said about the Jaws menus,
features and definitely script availability, far as I have experienced
from the demo running. Guess we all have a learning curve, but to a
degree, I'd say much of that curve is to climb down from the high level
of Win-Eyes, and reset to what our screen reader was like a handful of
years ago.
Again, I know it was not much encouraging news, but at least it might
give some of you a clue what to expect when comes to scripts for Jaws.
And for anyone who has the skills and resources, a genious idea would
have been to open a web-service offering Jaws scripts. Wonder if people
even would have been willing to pay a dollar or two annual fee, for
having such a service running. At least, if it would be acknowledged and
honored by the developers. As it stands, seemingly a lot of scripters
out there, are doing a kind of
"let me develop something for my own good, and see if anyone else
happen to find it, or even bother using it."
For some developers that might be perfect, but for many of us who have
been scripting under WinEyes, the idea of having a product that actually
makes the day for a number of users, really have been much of the
spurring driver behind the whole project. It's like cooking for
yourself, as compared to cooking a real rare roast for your whole family
party.
David
On 6/2/2017 7:17 AM, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote:
> It's a good example of where customers rate at FS. Window-Eyes and
> NVDA both offer script repositories while JAWS users have always had
> to search around the little ol' internet to find them.
> And ironically JAWS is much more dependent on scripts than Window-Eyes
> and NVDA.
>
>
> On 6/1/2017 4:30 PM, Samuel Wilkins via Talk wrote:
>> I would think that would be a really good thing for them to have, a
>> central repository for all scripts. It would certainly be good for
>> people who aren't very teck savi.
>>
>>
>> On 01/06/2017 14:54, Dave via Talk wrote:
>>> I needed to call the Jaws Tech Support yesterday, about a Synthesizer
>>> problem, and during that call, I asked if there was a Central location
>>> for Jaws Scripts. The guy said No, but there were some of the Jaws
>>> Web Site, and others were scattered around, some being Free and others
>>> were sold for a price. But no main Collection of Jaws Scripts exist.
>>>
>>> He also mentioned that some Jaws Scripts may be out of Date and may not
>>> work well or at all with Jaws 18, so be sure to note whether or not the
>>> script is a new one, or one made for some previous edition of Jaws.
>>>
>>> Grumpy Dave
>>>
>>>
>>
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