[access-uk] Re: Which is the top selling screenreader? and other questions?
- From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:29:55 -0000
Hi Damon.
I think the most popular screenreader or should I say most widely used
screenreader is JAWS. This is in part because it is still the most
configurable screenreader to configure for use with bespoke applications in
the work place. It is difficult to get figures about just how many jaws
users there are or how much JAWS sells. part of the reason for popularity
of jaws among home users is that JAWS probably has the best of all the help
systems and JAWS worked 3 or 4 years before any other screenreader was
really any good for windows.
You will find supernova widely used in colleges, libraries and the like
where users with varying degrees of vision can be catered for in one
product. There does need to be improvements in the speech side to make it
as good as JAWS or Window-eyes but magnification facilities are thought to
be excelent and speech has caught up to quite a large extent in the last 2
or 3 years.
Many home users are now going over to Window-eyes. They find that freedom
scientific and it's distributors do not give the technical support they
want. Window-eyes is not such a big seller though so providing technical
support is easier if there are fewer users. This being said, I suspect that
not enough technical support is really available and window-eyes does all
that many home users and standard microsoft product users need. the help
system needs a revamp though in my opinion.
I think most JAWS users I know use the latest version of JAWS they can
afford. JAWS version 7.1 is the earliest version that works with Internet
explorer 7.
Regards
graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Which is the top selling screenreader? and other
questions?
Hi.
Does anyone have any idea of what the dominant screenreader being used
in the UK is?=20
Is it JAWS? Or is there a significant underbelly of people out there in
libraries, schools, etc, using a much cheaper alternative?
And if it is jaws, which version is the most used version and why?=20
Also, which version of jaws works properly with IE7?
Anyone who can answer this for me? Much appreciated.
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