Re: JAWS by the hour
- From: Stan Holdeman <sholdeman@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:22:04 -0500
Hi Ed: I have never used this, but isn't there a thumb drive version of
jaws? What I have heard of it, you could use that with the borrowed laptop.
Stan
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From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:57 AM
Subject: JAWS by the hour
Perhaps what I'm suggesting below is available, but I don't think so. I
believe JAWS only offers a 40 minute demonstration mode or a full purchase.
Here is the situation:
You are on your way to an important meeting with a team of clients or
co-workers. The meeting is at the end of a 3 hour plane trip, and the
anticipated meeting will take at least 4 hours -- actually 6 hours.
Your laptop, for whatever reason, stops working, and you need to borrow a
laptop from someone else in your party -- someone who really doesn't need it
for the meeting.
Finally, you are at the airport when you discover the problem, and you have
30 minutes before the plane takes off.
The above is not, unfortunately, hypothetical.
I had to download and learn NVDA on the fly -- literally. Thanks to this
group, I knew about it, and it works reasonably well.
Unfortunately, however, NVDA does not have a readily accessible mode for
reviewing track changes in a Word document. Similarly, exactly how to read
font attributes and colors (other than caps lock plus F) wasn't apparent.
Now, if I would have been able to download JAWS and pay for a 24 hour
license, I would have done it in a heartbeat. I would have gladly paid
$100, and given my state of near panic, I might have been willing to pay
triple that amount -- though in retrospect that sounds excessive.
My real questions are:
1. Does JAWS have something like what I've just described -- a pay by the
hour mode? Unfortunately, at the time, I didn't really have time to
investigate.
2. Is the above set of circumstances just too weird for Freedom Scientific
to offer a pay-by-the-hour license as an option? In other words, has
anything like the above ever happened to you, and would you be willing to
pay a reasonable sum in a pinch?
Thanks for any suggestions or help.
I. Edward Marquette
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