[jaws-uk] Re: Why I am not going to use JAWS
- From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:12:39 -0000
JAWS for Windows is becoming an increasingly large download and I do find
myself wondering if it is not time that JAWS had a rewrite, dropping more of
the legacy support. It is wholly reasonable for example for JAWS not to
support anything older than Windows XP which has now been around for over 9
years. As many people have said though, there is now little if any
justification for the differences between JAWS standard and JAWS
Professional and JAWS Pro should in my opinion be dropped and JAWS should be
sold at the same price as the standard virsion, working with all operating
systems. In the longer term however, the PC should go the same way as the
Mac with a screenreader included as standard that really works. Only when
we reach this stage can we even begin to talk about equal access to
computers. Some vendors and manufacturers would go out of business but
that is just tough luck. This may be eutopia rather than a realistic
possibility but lets just say that if Microsoft were to purchase one of the
existing screenreaders and employ an appropriate amount of development staff
so the screenreader could be shipped with windows it would make things very
interesting indeed. JAWS would be an obvious target as it probably still
has the largest user base.
Regards
Graham
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-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of chris hallsworth
Sent: 21 December 2010 12:19
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Why I am not going to use JAWS
Hello all.
I will publicly state why I am refusing to use JAWS. It is Freedom
Scientific's attitude towards pricing and their license schemes. Some of
us can't or won't afford to buy JAWS, especially if the free one is just
as good as JAWS. As for the license scheme, the user is punished to
license JAWS on up to three machines. With the free and even other
commercial screen readers one can install on as many computers as they
have so long as one machine is used at a time, no questions asked. With
JAWS, once all three authorizations have been used they would then have
to request FS for more keys. Eventually and I will say eventually they
will refuse flat and get paranoid about people sharing authorization
keys. I understand piracy and all that and I certainly don't commit to
any of that stuff however at the same time FS is just asking for money
and not caring about the customer. True there is a dongle option, but
even they can have their fair share of problems. Now for the technical,
I do find the free one to be actually more stable and even works with
more applications than JAWS. You may find this shocking but this is true
according to my personal experience.
On a positive note, I would like to publicly thank the guys at Sight and
Sound. They have been really helpful in answering my JAWS queries, even
though the suggestions may not be what I was looking for. It's better to
have good communication rather than nothing at all. So thanks, and keep
up the great works.
Take care.
--
Chris Hallsworth
You can contact me at the following channels:
E-mail and Facebook: challsworth2@xxxxxxx
MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: chrishallsworth7266
Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40
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