It wouldn’t be the first time Mike and friends have been hauled over the coals. I remember when they were branding their product the “Freedom Box”. Freedom is a registered trade name of Freedom Scientific, and they were successful in that law suit. Thankfully, for many users world wide (including myself), they didn’t go under. But they were forced to totally re-brand. I own a copy of AccessToGo but only the stand-alone version. I refuse to participate in their network, as I see it as way to restrictive and it kind of segregates the so-called community from the rest of the world. Now, before anybody leaps up and down barking, (a technique which, presumably, they learned from some furry friend, yes, I do know that you can message and communicate with those outside of the network but my point here is that obviously, their services are not available to non-members. That’s perfectly true of other services as well, but not, I submit, to the same extent as SA2Go.
Now, before I get my head bitten off by those leaping and barking owners of teaching animals, I am not suggesting for a moment that others cannot, do not, will not nor should not benefit from these services. Companies which make our lives easier are always welcome. I also happen to believe that as a stand-by, SA2Go stand-alone has a lot to offer. That’s why my other half exercised her right to license it on my behalf. I also own a copy of Dolphin Supernova Screen-reader which, to the very best of my knowledge, does not offer remote access in any sense. Yes, Chris, you’ll find this in the Linux world, of course. But we’re not discussing Linux in this context. But as far as the Windows user is concerned, I’m afraid that, unless one owns a copy of Jaws with remote access and/or Window-Eyes, one is totally up the proverbial creek. Now, it’s also only fair to remind the group that GW Micro recently teamed up with Microsoft, (probably to save their bacon), and made Window-Eyes free for anybody who owns a copy of Office 2010 or later. Quite a bold move, but I’m really glad that I didn’t buy one of their SMA licenses. I’d imagine customers who did would be pretty darn angry at this point. I know I would. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; Proud To Be Providing Help & Support To The Staff And Students Of the Visually Impaired Department at Sunnyside Academy, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom; In Addition To Braille Transcription services. On 1 Apr 2014, at 21:38, Christopher gilland <[email protected]> wrote: Gordon, you forgot about Orca, for Linux, which has built in remote access, and also System Access on the Windows side, which offers remote access, but then, frankly in my opinion, and probably not that of everyone, I'd not use S A to go nor Mobile network if you paid me to do so! ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
