[access-uk] Re: Fw: [vicsireland] Digit-Eyes Audio Labeling System Advances Independence For Visually Impaired
- From: Tristram Llewellyn <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:28:03 +0000
In response to Barry and Mike, it is not that lowering prices isn't an
extremely good idea, but it is how you achieve it and get a business at the end
of it that matters and the problem really is that this has to matter and be
resolved, wishing alone will not make it happen neither will punitive measure.
Let us not forget that as an example once Freedom Scientific produced in effect
a cheaper version of JAWS called Connect Outloud. It did not sell terribly
well because they had to take out features, in the end the market decided it
sacrificed too many and was eventually after a few years withdrawn, potential
buyers mostly decided right there and then to bypass it as a product. I am
pretty sure if it were so attractive a model somebody like GW Micro might try
with Window-Eyes but I don't think it has. In other words there is very little
evidence yet that I see in the market that suggests that creating a barebones +
options type product has a great deal of traction or attraction for potential
developers. People once they have brought a product usually simply want it to
fulfil their needs. JAWS users would resent paying additional costs for
scripts no matter what the base price was I would contend and then say why
isn't this included in the product?
Whilst software with the developments of new frameworks and having a more
plastic nature are capable in theory of at least getting cheaper, things like
Braille displays which are mostly made by hand are not going to get a lot
cheaper and a great proportion of those costs are absorbed in labour.
Depending on where that labour is sourced it may cost more or less, if sourced
from locations where labour has fewer rights it will be cheaper, if sourced in
areas of the world where they have more rights the labour will cost more and so
will that produt.
If companies ceased to make profits they would themselves cease to exist and
product would itself cease to exist. The other radical alternative is for each
country to produce Government screen reader/Magnifier etc. This may be good
although experience has taught us (certainly in Britain with British Leyland
for example) that nationalised manufacturing industries tend not to do well for
either their customers or in terms of the quality of what is produced.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
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