[jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
- From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:57:47 +0100
Roll on the day that happens. I only hope that when it does Microsoft give
decent support for any problems with it. Although I appreciate that if
Microsoft did incorporate a screenreader worth the name into Windows
screenreader manufacturers would complain, but that's not my concern.
Wouldn't it be nice just to pay for one product instead of several, and not
to be expected to fork out hundreds of pounds just to enable us to access
what is accessible to the sighted user.
Linux have done it, and so have Macintosh. Why not Microsoft?
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel" <stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:32 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
I believe the market for screen readers is comparatively small so it will
not be at the top of MS's priority list. Also MS has recently tried to
improve it's security in Vista only to have companies currently offering
third party security products complaining of unfair competition. I can't
imagine screen reader companies being too happy if MS attempts to take away
their business. MS has done this in the past of course when it wanted to
get into the word processor market and deliberately crushed a rival word
processor product by giving them very little information on how windows
would work at the time they introduced windows three point one. This meant
there rivals product was crap in comparison to MS's.
You can expect MS to take an interest in controlling the screen reader
market when they have taken over everything else.
Nigel
You vote Tory, you get a Tory Government. You vote Labour you get a Labour
Government with Tory policies.
----- Original Message -----
From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Slightly off topic
> Hi Dorothy, that's a question I've been asking myself for a long time. I
> can
> see no reason why they shouldn't. I can only think that they consider
> blind
> people to repbe too small a group to bother. I would hope that one day
> they
> will. I had hoped that Vista, along with all its other bells and whistles
> would incorporate a decent screenreader, but it's only got Narrator. The
> only improvement is that you'll be able to use SAPI 5 voices with it.
> John.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:25 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Slightly off topic
>
>
> Did anyone listen to Opinion on Radio 4 this morning at about ten to 9.
>
> A Journalist was talking about the "Richest Man on the Planet" seems Mr.
> Bill gates, is that man. Journalist said how it had changed the City
> greatly. What has Microsoft to do with Jaws? Well can anyone explain how
> easy is it to use Jaws without Microsoft? Would it be easier for
> Microsoft
> to serve our needs without Jaws? I think this is a fair question.
>
> Dorothy.
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