[access-uk] Re: Which is the top selling screenreader? and other questions?
- From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:33:15 -0000
Hi,
I would agree with all of that with one exception. I think the help in
Window Eyes is now, as of version 6, as good as that in Jaws. I have also
heard people say that SuperNova's magnification is not anything like as good
as Zoomtext, but can't vouch for that!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:29 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Which is the top selling screenreader? and other
questions?
> 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.
>
> =2E..Damon=20
>
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