Also Jeremy Curry is there as well. Your right JAWS does run on its scripts to work. While there is and will be a need for scripting, scripting doesn't work on everything in JAWS.
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Kingston via Talk Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2019 3:35 PM To: Butch Bussen via Talk Cc: Tom Kingston Subject: Re: Update for the Chrome browser enhancements app. Hi Butch, It's Doug and Jeff Bishop. Regards, Tom On 4/4/2019 10:31 AM, Butch Bussen via Talk wrote: > Write privately if you want. e-mail is > [email protected] > or > [email protected] > > I know one of those people, curious who the second might be. Thanks. > 73 > Butch > WA0VJR > Node 3148 > Wallace, ks. > > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote: > >> Sky, >> What happened with Window-Eyes has nothing to do with who was the >> front runner. GW merged with AI and had done an enormous amount of >> work to integrate Window-Eyes with ZoomText to make transitioning from >> the magnifier to a screen reader easier. Then FS walked in and offered >> a pile of cash for the company. Those at the top fought it fiercely. >> But the board saw dollar signs and said yes. >> So, FS does own the code. They have no interest in it. And it will >> never see the light of day. First, their egos won't let them show that >> Window-Eyes features could make JAWS a better screen reader. And the >> way the two screen readers are built is very different. The JAWS >> program is just the critical core elements and it depends heavily on >> scripts for every day functionality. Window-Eyes is the opposite; >> scripts are a convenient method to tweak things. >> Two Window-Eyes developers are running the show at Microsoft for >> Narrator. So I'm hoping one day it will be a great screen reader. If >> it gets scripting it will certainly be a game changer. >> Regards, >> Tom >> >> >> On 4/4/2019 1:46 AM, Sky Mundell via Talk wrote: >>> Glad the whole WE community is doing all it can to keep Window-Eyes >>> alive. >>> I >>> was thinking about it today and what it would had been like if it >>> had been >>> the front runner. Maybe somebody will hopefully pick up the actual >>> source >>> code for it and continue development. Does FS now own the source >>> code? If >>> so >>> then why not put more features from WE into JAWS? Maybe they don't have >>> the >>> whole code. Something to think about. >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Tom Kingston via Talk >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2019 10:09 PM >>> To: Curtis Delzer via Talk >>> Cc: Tom Kingston >>> Subject: Re: Update for the Chrome browser enhancements app. >>> >>> Glad you like it. Happy surfing. >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> On 4/4/2019 12:47 AM, Curtis Delzer via Talk wrote: >>> > nice one, less confusing for WE for sure. >>> > > thank you for this. >>> > > Curtis Delzer >>> > HS >>> > W B 6 H E F >>> > Rialto, CA >>> > > On 4/3/2019 8:32 PM, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote: >>> > > In this version I added the ability to toggle off and on the >>> > > announcements of suggestions in the address bar as you type. >>> They're >>> > > on by default. The hot key is F2. 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