[access-uk] Re: Which is the top selling screenreader? and other questions?

  • From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:14:45 -0000

How differently do the latest versions of JAWS< WindowEyes and Supernova
render web pages? Are they all basically the same and up to speed when
it comes to accessibility of the web?


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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dave Taylor
Sent: 24 January 2007 13:33
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Which is the top selling screenreader? and
other questions?

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=20
> configurable screenreader to configure for use with bespoke=20
> applications in the work place.  It is difficult to get figures about=20=

> just how many jaws users there are or how much JAWS sells.  part of=20
> the reason for popularity of jaws among home users is that JAWS=20
> probably has the best of all the help systems and JAWS worked 3 or 4=20=

> years before any other screenreader was really any good for windows.
>
> You will find supernova widely used in colleges, libraries and the=20
> like where users with varying degrees of vision can be catered for in=20=

> 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=20
> are thought to be excelent and speech has caught up to quite a large=20=

> extent in the last 2 or 3 years.
>
> Many home users are now going over to Window-eyes.  They find that=20
> freedom scientific and it's distributors do not give the technical=20
> support they want.  Window-eyes is not such a big seller though so=20
> providing technical support is easier if there are fewer users.  This=20=

> being said, I suspect that not enough technical support is really=20
> available and window-eyes does all that many home users and standard=20=

> microsoft product users need.  the help system needs a revamp though=20=

> 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=20
> 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=20=

> questions?
>
>
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of what the dominant screenreader being used

> in the UK is?=3D20
>
> Is it JAWS? Or is there a significant underbelly of people out there=20=

> in libraries, schools, etc, using a much cheaper alternative?
>
> And if it is jaws, which version is the most used version and why?=3D20=

>
> Also, which version of jaws works properly with IE7?
>
> Anyone who can answer this for me? Much appreciated.
>
> =3D2E..Damon=3D20
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