[access-uk] Re: Fw: [vicsireland] Digit-Eyes Audio Labeling System Advances Independence For Visually Impaired
- From: Dean Wilcox <wilcoxdean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:50:32 -0700
Maybe System Access from Serotek is one example of a cheaper screen reader.
Some features have been taken out and for a year I used it in place of Jaws,
only switching to Jaws occasionally. Now my needs have changed and I use Jaws
every day at work and the scripts feature to provide access to many
applications that would not have been accessible before, support for a wide
number of Braille displays and surely other features that for a while didn't
mean that much to me are now vital.
Different priced products generally have a lot going for them depending on what
you want but it is often the case that you pay a lot more to jump from
something that is close to the best to the actual best.
On 24 Jun 2010, at 05:28, Tristram Llewellyn wrote:
> 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 withdrawn, potential buyers mostly decided right there and then to bypass it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 attra
> ction 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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