[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR
- From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:54:41 -0400
My final thought is this: If you don't like the features, nobody's
making you buy the product/beg an agency for the upgrade. I personally
won't upgrade to JFW13, it's a useful feature but not worth my money.
JFW12 is just fine, at least for when I rarely use JFW anyway.
Alex
On 9/16/11, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can't think of another company, accessibility related or not, that
> doesn't go after filling up the feature matrix first and getting dinged
> for not caring about existing customers, quality, bug fixes and so on.
> IMHO, FS isn't any better or worse than any other company or product I
> can think of in this respect.
>
> It also seems to me that FS, MS or most any company is in a no win
> situation. If FS came out with a JFW 13 that was mostly focused on bug
> fixes and performance then people would resent having to pay an SMA for
> something they should have gotten in the first place or would complain
> about having to pay for something that was such a small change from the
> previous version. If they add a new feature then there will be those who
> aren't interested in that feature and those who resent the fact that FS
> has implemented a new feature instead of fixing their pet bug.
>
> Well, that's just my $0.02. I'll go back to wearing out my delete key.
>
> On 16/09/11 16:31, gary melconian wrote:
>> Hello I beg to differ. I have been with a few other access tech companies,
>> an they have first of all fixed any issues that customers have had and
>> then
>> added new features and that is the way if we want to have stable and
>> useable
>> products and bells and whistles that are not useful to us but to impress
>> the
>> shareholders of Fs and who cares if the Shareholder don’t have paying
>> customers and then who is going to by this piece of shit which I have
>> seen
>> lately been a toy and not a useful productivity tool as it use to be in
>> the
>> passed. I se no use in renewing sma's if fs keeps this crap up with its
>> customers.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G-Dog
>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 12:44 PM
>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR
>>
>> Look man you don't byte the hand that feeds you Bro and JM has bounced
>> around quite a bit over the years. With such a small market there is
>> bound
>> to be the odd indiscretion notice by people.
>> No matter how ludicris the remarks, he's just doing his job
>> Now if FS would do there's and fix stability and bugs, then that, would,
>> be,
>>
>> quote Game changeing unquote!
>> because all the target community developers focus on features, not
>> performance for new upgrades.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:23 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR
>>
>>
>> Guys, this seems like another useless jaws feature. This OCR thing is
>> almost
>> exactly what one can do with a screen capture utility built into Windows
>> or
>> what you can download get for fee.
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Take-a-screen-capture-print-your
>> -screen
>>
>> Yeah, this screen capture process might be slightly faster with jaws 13,
>> but
>> is this worth a hit on one's SMA? I say h no!
>>
>> If you listen to the FS podcast you will also come across something to the
>> effect of Jonathan saying that scriptors on this list were all excited
>> about
>> this new feature. I don't recall a single post on this list commenting on
>> this feature. This makes Jonathan less than credible but I don't fall for
>> company BS about their own products anyways. Furthermore, I wil now accept
>> Jonathan's comments with a handful of salt. He's lots almost total
>> credibility with me with this comment at it is blatantly disingenuous. He
>> also claimed this feature to be a game changer in screen reader
>> technology.
>>
>> A-W
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chris Smart" <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:00 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws 13 OCR
>>
>>
>> So, have any of you played with the OCR feature in Jaws 13 beta yet?
>>
>> I managed to register a program last night, whose initial
>> registration screen was formerly invisible to Jaws. Too bad that
>> once I registered the program, the rest of the application turned
>> out to be invisible as well. *LOL*
>>
>> So far, we can ocr and then read or mouse click on the results.
>> In what ways could this new information gleaned through OCR be tied
>> to other Jaws functions? I'm thinking it would be nice to be able
>> to put the Jaws cursor on part of the OCR results and transfer the
>> text into the graphics labeler, for example.
>>
>> Chris
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