Re: Thoughts on NEw JAWS
- From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:01:23 -0500
Speaking of remote access, I heard in an interview Eric Damery did that FS
is thinking about charging extra for remote desktop and citrix support, I
believe the figure he gave was somewhere in the area of $200. Personally, I
think this is pure d wrong. Window-eyes has access to Citrix and remote
desktop in the current version and it's absolutely free. Why on earth
should we pay $200 for something that's available for free elsewhere? FS
needs to get back on target with the user base, realize that we're not
interested in all these bells and whistles, and fix the outstanding issues
like the focus problems like others have said. But the question is how
this can be accomplished. There does appear to be a lot of bug fixes in
the 5.1 release so that's all good and well and I'm quite sure people who
use MS word will benefit from these. But I don't know a single person who
tells me that they've used place markers, the personalized web settings or
the speech and sounds manager. To be quite blunt and forward, I think the
programmers are just showing off and saying, look what we can do! Ifthey
could get back to basics I think it would go a long way to regaining
people's trust.
At 12:22 AM 8/21/2004, you wrote:
>Bruce,
>
>Right on, I am not personally excited at all about the Speech Manager; I
>rarely save specific website settings, so those features don't mean much to
>me.
>
>I'm still waiting for resolutions to the focus issues and other bugs, as well
>as support for other things such as remote access.
>
>Steve
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bruce Toews" <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:19 PM
>Subject: Thoughts on NEw JAWS
>
>
>First of all, it seems FS is still desperate for us to be excited about
>the sound schemes feature that 5.0 introduced. I'm not seeing this
>excitement in the real world. Maybe it's there and I'm missing it.
>
>I see nothing about the menus-reading issues and the other long-standing
>issues that are repeatedly addressed here and elsewhere. Are they
>increasingly out of touch with their users? I'm afraid so. At the risk of
>getting too far off-topic and raising James's frustrations, I'll stop
>here.
>
>Bruce
>
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