Re: informative material about Freedom Sci
- From: "Sunshine" <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:03:47 -0500
well i can see where he is coming from but really jaws has a lot more to be
disired for . I know some blind people who use window eyes and it is a fact
they can do things jaws can not do at this time for one window eyes can read
more of the screen then jaws can
----- Original Message -----
From: "Smith, Robert J" <smithr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dh012e2025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'jaws-list'" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: informative material about Freedom Sci
> I don't want to start a huge, off-topic thread here because the cost of J=
> AWS
> is briefly mentioned. But, however, there is material in the text below
> that I thought quite informative and interesting about Freedom Sci's staf=
> f.
> I took this part of a message from another JAWS list I am subscribed to.
> Bob Smith
>
>
> Jane,
>
> I agree, that for some, JAWS is priced relatively high in respect to
> income.
> However, when making comparisons with the lower cost screen reader
> products,
> it is a bit fool hardy to compare on cost alone.
>
> As the old saying goes "you get what you pay for". If you think of the
> cost
> as not being for the cost of the product, but for the personnel hours
> taken
> to develop it, support it, test it and so on. Freedom Scientific
> unarguably
> have the biggest number of developers found in a screen reader company,
> this
> allows them to develop more support, in more depth and for a wider range
> of
> products than other screen reader vendors can. All right, this point
> depends on what you want to use your computer for. If you just want to =
> do
> really limited stuff on Word, write basic emails and look at basic web
> sites, then JAWS is probably the wrong product for you, but if you want =
> to
> do more, as most users do, then JAWS will offer you the most abilities t=
> o
> do
> what you want. As people who rely on access technology to give us the
> abilities to do things, then JAWS offers us the greatest amount of
> abilities
> to get the most out of our computers be it for work, academia or just fo=
> r
> leisure purposes. So, in terms of functionality, you definately get wha=
> t
> you pay for.
>
> The greater number of developers also allows Freedom to develop new, nov=
> el
> and cutting edge functionality to go into their products. JAWS was the
> first screen reader to support Excel, the first to offer quick navigatio=
> n
> keys on the web, the first to support Powerpoint, to name a few of the
> cutting edge things Freedom have introduced into JAWS. As someone who i=
> s
> involved in the advanced research side of development at Freedom, then I
> can
> guarantee this isn't about to stop, there's some great things being
> planned.
> True, other companies can do this sort of thing, but it means taking
> developers away from what they usually do, meaning that the next version
> of
> product x won't be supported, or the functionality in say Word won't be
> improved. By Dan Weirich's own admission, the WE support for Word and
> other
> Office products was very bad until recently. and Word is somewhere where
> JAWS has been strong for a long time.
>
> I can understand your point about the high cost, but would encourage
> everyone making comparisons not only to look at cost, but to look at the
> functionality as well. No two screen readers are alike, except in the
> product category. It's a bit like comparing Windows to Linux, both are
> operating systems, butboth are completely different.
>
> When deciding upon a screen reader, it's like any other piece of softwar=
> e,
> or any other products. You have to decide what you need from that
> product,
> how much value to you put on having to have those abilites, and make a
> decision on which screen reader product is right for you.
>
> Oh yes, a lot of staff at Freedom are blind as well. Chris Hofstader,
> Vice
> President of Software Engineering is blind, James Datray, lead scripter =
> is
> blind, as are many others, and oh yes, Ted Henter, who created JAWS for
> DOS,
> and Glen Gordon, the Cheif Technical Officer, who created JAWS for
> Windows,
> they're blind too.
>
> Will
>
>
>
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