RE: SMA policy was: JAWS update now available
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:37:54 -0400
I disagree with that. I do know many people who have switched, and in
every case they prefer Window Eyes. It's not always better, but they
say the company atitude is always better.
Chip
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Alan Clendinen
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:16 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SMA policy was: JAWS update now available
Daniel,
That was an eloquent description of our dilemma. I would only
add that we are probably suffering from the "grass is always greener on
the other side of the fence" syndrome. Window-Eyes users entertain
similar thoughts of switching to another screen-reader whenever their
chosen program gives them fits.
Regards,
Alan
Daniel wrote:
Of course I understand. Every time the list has one of its
sporadic shudders
of revulsion against FS, the recurrent question is why not
switch. If the
disincentives for voting with consumer feet weren't so
formidable as they
actually are, so many of us would by now have become Window eyes
users that
list traffic here would be vastly reduced. For better or worse.
But mostly,
we don't do that foot-vote, and life goes on until the next time
there's
occasion for major complaints about the product and/or the tech
support. So
I was just catching the fever of that resentment and tossing in
my own two
cents' worth of distaste for the Empire, the hegemon of this
market. and
now the shudder subsides, and we go on, resigned as always.
Which may sound sad or even pathetic, but I think it's okay. The
actual sad
part is the resentment between the lines that I think is
engendered by
feelings of helplessness and dependency in the face, first, of
needing
adaptive assistance at all, which I think is perfectly natural,
and has to
be born with or put out of mind for the sake of sanity, and more
to the
point, resentment of the dependency on state rehab agencies for
their needed
largesse and for their taking the prerogative to favor the
product they've
determined to be the safest bet.
anyway, it's all done, now, and we go on, as usual. Which is
okay. And FS
will have its way with signing people up and making it hard for
them to
defect, at least in re Jaws. So it goes.
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