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
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