Yes Harmony, i hear you; there's no doubt the A-COmpany is doing some stellar work these days. Unfortunately I do not really like their operating principles and have been reluctant to use any of their products for years. I'll never say never, but right now I appreciate the variety of hardware and software, made by a myriad of individual companies, available for the PC market. Seems more to my taste.
Quoting Harmony Neil <harmonylm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
You could always switch to another operating system beginning with m? I don't mind paying extra for that one because the accessibility is built in and you have to pay that price whether you be blind or sighted. Although granted, said OS has a little work to do as far as getting OCR and scanning software for reading printed documents, but otherwise the company with the initial of A all the way, and Freedom Science fiction can go and stick their prices and bugs in jfw elsewhere, I say.-----Original Message-----From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of crystallogic@xxxxxxxxxxxxSent: 28 March 2011 16:02 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Coding Opera or google chrome Quoting Marsha <marcatony@xxxxxxxxx>:Hi If the attitude is "Why not just use. . . . ." Why make new things accessible? MarshaSeriously. That's a terrible attitude. I don't know how many times I've asked people about alternatives to a certain programme, like Adobe reader, for example, that might be screenreader-friendly, and people just say, "oh, why not just use Adobe Reader? It's accessible!"...as though there might not be dozens of other perfectly logical or even personal reasons why someone might not want to use a certain product. Back in the early 90s a lot of folks, including me, would have said to people trying to get on board with this "newfangled Windows thing" that they should just "keep using DOS", which was "perfectly adequate to our needs"... Personally it's always bothered me that we have such comparatively little available to us, software wise. The average computer user has got hundreds of applications to choose from that all more or less perform the same thing; it's just the interfaces, size, etc that differ....everyone should have this level of choice available to them and it is a sad but inevitable fact that we don't; we're pretty much stuck with either the most mainstream products or complete niche items that are designed "specifically for blind users" because those are the applications that have the most accessibility work done with them. Now to a certain extent we have to live with this reality, but it doesnt' mean we have to like it...we should be going out of our way to try new programmes, make suggestions to their authors, tell otehrs on the list what software works and what doesn't, etc. Good work to those who have the knowledge and ability to code additional jaws scripting. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwAlternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.htmlIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwAlternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.htmlIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
