I thought that 5 years ago and well let's just say it hasn't caught up yet. I will say though I would like to see System access supported if you want a good cheap screen reader for windows that's the way to go. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 3:25 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Screen Reader Compatibility I'll throw out a vote for Orca next. There seem to be a lot of open-source blind programmers out in Linux land, and I think you could reach them best with Orca integration. Also, Orca and accessibility in Linux seems to be advancing rapidly. I suspect in five years, looking back Orca will have seemed the obvious choice. Bill On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm definitely disappointed to see JAWS getting all the attention on the > Windows side. Personal, subjective preference aside, I think most of us can > agree that It's more expensive than Window Eyes, has an inferior scripting > implementation compared to Window Eyes, uses more system resources than > Window Eyes, and yet so many accessibility products worry about > compatibility with JFW which translates to implicit support for Freedom > Scientific's frivolous litigation, forced Braille driver signing, and other > nonsense that serves the blind community in no useful fashion. It sounds > like you've already gotten pretty far on your roadmap for Windows with JAWS > already, so I'll say no more. Hopefully you'll revisit the possibility of > Window Eyes compatibility in the future, although I guess with Window Eyes > being more adaptable (my opinion of course) it'll be easier for its users to > adapt it to Sotbeans themselves. > > Jared > > On 1/23/2010 9:59 AM, Andreas Stefik wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> We're working hard out here on screen reader compatibility on the >> Sappy/Sodbeans projects in NetBeans. We're trying to decide which screen >> readers we should make our code compatible with. We realistically can't do >> all of them in the short term and we are starting with Jaws/ OSX Voice Over. >> Once those are complete, any suggestions on what screen readers the >> community would prefer come next? Any preferences? >> >> We were thinking maybe a unix flavor screen reader, perhaps Orca, but are >> open to suggestions. What does the community think? >> >> Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. >> Assistant Professor >> Department of Computer Science >> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind