At 06:27 PM 8/29/2018, Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, wrote:
>I believe that the impossible is that which has not been tried. We could
>all wake up tomorrow and hear an important announcement: Jaws for Android
>is here! Shall we throw up our arms in the air in disgust? I doubt that.
>If nothing else, many of us will play ball with it and see where its chips
>land. After all, in Android Land, you can have as many screen readers as
>you choose--Talkback, ShinePlus can be used in any Android toy;
>VoiceAssistant and VoiceViews are still partial to their creators, Samsung
>and Amazon in that order. I've never been a programmer; yet, I've seen
>Windows apps being ported over to Android. A good example is Outlook,
>another is Word and, yes, Excel is available on the Android platform.
The examples you gave share an important commonality: they're
all Windows applications ported over to Android for user
convenience. The Android versions of these apps are free for a
reason. Google can afford to work on Talkback because it's built into
every Android phone. But a competing screen reader would have to
charge hefty prices to stay in business with Android.
>I may be odd, but I do love and appreciate being able to use touchscreen
>toys! I am, as of the present moment, equally productive on my Shiny
>Android toys as I am using a keyboard with a computer. I taught myself all
>that I do and I ask questions of more knowledgeable folks when I am stuck.
>No, I'm not a guru and do not frankly wish to be one--nonetheless, if it
>weren't for the legacy Windows app that are work related, I shall have
>divorced Windows and keep on running with ONLY Android TOYS in my pocket!
Really? Can you select Pages of text inn blocks to be moved around?
Can you use regular expressions to replace characters in hundreds of
thousands of files at a time? I do that with Notepad Plus Plus, even
though I love my Galaxy S9+.
>Thus, I can keep hope alive; it may or may not happen. Notwithstanding, I
>sure hope that someone much more brilliant than I figures out a way to
>resurrect Window-Eyes as a screen reader on the Android platform! In some
>shape or form, we've been here before: Window-Eyes was dying, some of us
>shouted it out from the treetops and were sent to the gas chambers so we
>could be forgotten and never heard from. Fortunately, the doors of the gas
>chambers DIDN'T CLOSE before we were vindicated. Should the hope I nurse
>become a reality, this beggar who wishes for what is classified as
>impossible surely wants to ride into town with happiness pushing a
>Window-Eyes for Android cart!
I too would love that. But Android as an operating system doesn't
need a robust screen reader like Window-eyes. I ultimately think that
Doug Geoffray will have the last laugh when Narrator becomes robust
enough to displace Jaws.Orlando Enrique Fiol
Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory
University of Pennsylvania
Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist, Arranger, Performer
and Pedagogue
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