[jaws-uk] Re: The great jaws 8 debate?

  • From: "susan mcdonald" <susan_mcdonald52@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:33:50 +0000

I am one of those struggling to keep up with the updates to jaws but have 
been unsuccessful in finding an alternative screenreader that can go 
everywhere and do things as quickly as Jaws, so if you come across a 
screenreader that is able to do what Jaws does without all the problems I am 
sure we would all like to know so we can all have it instead of moarning 
about the problems that Jaws is facing up to just to keep up with Technology


>From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: The great jaws 8 debate?
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:45:30 -0000
>
>I say they are a luxury item as a lot of blind people do not have such
>software.
>
>Nigel
>Do you have a sports car?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 11:14 PM
>Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: The great jaws 8 debate?
>
>
> > They haven't been a luxury item. They are an expensive necessity.
> >
> > Iain
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:42 PM
> > Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: The great jaws 8 debate?
> >
> >
> > Very well said Robin.
> > Only thing I would say is that screen readers have always been a luxury
> > item
> > for the blind.
> >
> > Nigel
> > There's something wrong there.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robin Clayden" <r.clayden@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:26 PM
> > Subject: [jaws-uk] The great jaws 8 debate?
> >
> >
> >>I sometimes wonder if we've reached a watershed in jaws and what it
> >> achieves in serving our needs. I mean, now we've just been introduced 
>to
> >> IE7 and a suitably compatible version of Jaws, if you're O/S is XP, 
>then
> >> don't you think you have enough ammunition to sit tight for the next
> >> five years and maybe much more without spending any more cash on this
> >> product? This I accept will apply more to the domestic user rather than
> >> us poor pro's in employment.
> >>
> >> By the time you reach the point where your system and jfw can't do the
> >> job you need, then your computer system might need replacing, an
> >> alternative screen reader at a much lower price may be around the 
>market
> >> place, and heck, maybe they'll speed up that research and cure us all
> >> who suffer from RP!
> >>
> >> I totally agree that the enhancements in recent times, one could argue,
> >> don't justify the upgrade price, and they do tend to bring in these
> >> upgrades at frequent intervals when perhaps they could be re scheduled
> >> to a longer period encompassing more of the new features in one upgrade
> >> instead of two.
> >>
> >> But these techies at FS are constantly working to keep up with
> >> technology and I suppose they've got to earn a living, just a pity it
> >> has to be sponsored by us, the drawback of a product that's specialist
> >> and has a limited market. I admit it's easy to be kind of casual about
> >> the product when I'm fortunate to have mine paid by my employer, but I
> >> do sympathise with the domestic users who have to shell out a lot of
> >> cash they can't afford and find it difficult to agree they're getting
> >> value for their money.
> >>
> >> All in all it's a fantastic tool for blind and visually impaired people
> >> but it's fast becoming a luxury item.
> >>
> >> J m o,
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Robin Clayden,
> >> Edinburgh College of Art,
> >> 74 Lauriston Place,
> >> EDINBURGH EH3 9DF.
> >>
> >> T: +44 0 131 221 6000
> >> E: r.clayden@xxxxxxxxx
> >> W: http://www.eca.ac.uk=20
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