WE couldn't be modified the braille table so it doesn't support Asia language like Chinese. On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Jared Wright wrote: > 1. Window Eyes has a self-contained Eloquence driver now that is equal to > JFW's in every way. > 2. Who cares who had scripting back in 1998? It's now 2010, friend, and WE > took the time to do there's right, and thus you have a scripting environment > that uses programming languages we already use rather than than proprietary > garbage, adheres to better common programming practices, and supports COM > automation (which is truly a beautiful thing.) > 3. The JAWS SMA authorizes only two upgrades, while WE's authorizes three. > 4. JAWS requires an additional $200 for remote desktop access. Window Eyes > does not, making the pricing difference even more clear. > 5. If you insist on cracking, Window Eyes is an easier crack than JFW. > > Normally I wouldn't care, but so many projects, like Sodbeans, seem to juse > jump on the JAWS bandwagon by default. This perception needs to change, > because I think you can make a pretty convincing case that JFW is pretty > definitively inferior to Window Eyes. The only things JAWS users can give me > for why they don't switch is that they are stubborn and do not want to learn > the WE interface. I mean, , JAWS 11 is loaded with ugly regressions. Couple > this with some of Freedom's political and legal jockeying over the last few > years, and I think it's clear that they do not want to see AT improve at as > rapid a pace as possible. They just want to make a dollar off blind people who > are struggling for that dollar as it is. That isn't to say the folks at GW > Micro aren't trying to make a living, but FS in my opinion has reached the > point of being downright sleezy. Maybe that doesn't matter to you, but it does > to me. > > Jared > > > > On 1/24/2010 4:41 AM, black ares wrote: > > man, in time I've started using jaws, in our part of world, windows eyes > > mean nothing. > > More years after, (10 or so) window eyes was poor in features, worked in > > less situations than jaws. > > Look at the scripting feature you claim here. > > In what year did windows eyes introduced scripting? How I remember, some two > > or three years ago, man, jaws had scripting still from 1998 (as farr as I > > know), because in 1998 I started using a pc and also jaws for windows and > > surprisingly hal5 for dos. > > > > Also, I will speak here about a practice that make you all to be ofenced > > acting in law supporters, but on the other side, is a practice which gives > > help to marketing. > > And if you don't guess what is about I will tell you, is about cracks. > > In early life, when I had no money to buy such expensive licenses (in my > > country medium sallary is around 500 euro even now), I found jaws cracks and > > used jaws with crack from 1998 til 2006 during my high school studies and > > after during my university studies. > > After, when I've got employed and begun making money with help of screen > > readers as a software developer, what screen reader license do you think I > > have bought? > > Sure the one I was used to. > > I had a fairly great experience with jaws and even not thought to spent 900 > > dolars to a new software, at that time with less features than jaws, and to > > spent time to learn it. > > > > More than that, I am looking now at your pricing plan there > > and it is true window eyes is 895 dolars and jaws is 1095 dolars so 200 > > dolars difference, but jaws sma is 200 dolars and windows eyes is 300 > > dolars. > > so in time, you get all money back and is no difference between the two > > companies. > > The only thing that difers is the marketing plan and for sure the product > > and unfortunately for you, freedom scientific are better both. > > > > Other things which keeped me away from window eyes: > > 1. the synth, I realy love elocuence and that delktalk and how the hell is > > called and spelled, is very lazy and sounds poorly compared to elocuence. > > Window eyes introducet elocuence after 2002 and not as a default synth and > > when, in 2006 I wanted to give a try to window eyes, I ended up not > > understanding the dectalk even for succeeding to change it in elocuence... I > > gave up. > > 2. also the keyboard differences from jaws which put me in a new environment > > where I don't know how to get the informations I wanted to, scared me. > > 3. lacs of come crack, for permeting me to evaluate best the software, until > > 2007 I didn't see any cracks for window eyes and how I remember (may be I am > > wrong) in demo mode window eyes, in its early stages acted only for 10 > > minutes. > > > > So, what you see now man, is the results of a wrong marketing campain that > > gwmicro have done during years. > > For a product, the product it self and a low price is not enough to sell the > > product. > > In this moment, even you will offer the window eyes for free, you will not > > get so rapidly customers, because there are true alternatives there like > > nvda. > > best regards my friend and think better, the software market does not mean > > only good technics developed in a software. > > -- > > Radu Vasile > > -------------------------------------- > > Project manager and software architect > > Cell: +40722614784 > > e-mail: > > rvasile@xxxxxxxxx > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Wright" <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:16 PM > > Subject: Re: Screen Reader Compatibility > > > > > > > I'm definitely disappointed to see JAWS getting all the attention on the > > > Windows side. Personal, subjective preference aside, I think most of us > > > can agree that It's more expensive than Window Eyes, has an inferior > > > scripting implementation compared to Window Eyes, uses more system > > > resources than Window Eyes, and yet so many accessibility products worry > > > about compatibility with JFW which translates to implicit support for > > > Freedom Scientific's frivolous litigation, forced Braille driver signing, > > > and other nonsense that serves the blind community in no useful fashion. > > > It sounds like you've already gotten pretty far on your roadmap for > > > Windows with JAWS already, so I'll say no more. Hopefully you'll revisit > > > the possibility of Window Eyes compatibility in the future, although I > > > guess with Window Eyes being more adaptable (my opinion of course) it'll > > > be easier for its users to adapt it to Sotbeans themselves. > > > > > > Jared > > > > > > On 1/23/2010 9:59 AM, Andreas Stefik wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > We're working hard out here on screen reader compatibility on the > > > > Sappy/Sodbeans projects in NetBeans. We're trying to decide which screen > > > > readers we should make our code compatible with. We realistically can't > > > > do all of them in the short term and we are starting with Jaws/ OSX > > > > Voice Over. Once those are complete, any suggestions on what screen > > > > readers the community would prefer come next? Any preferences? > > > > > > > > We were thinking maybe a unix flavor screen reader, perhaps Orca, but > > > > are open to suggestions. What does the community think? > > > > > > > > Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. > > > > Assistant Professor > > > > Department of Computer Science > > > > Southern Illinois University Edwardsville > > > > >> __________ > > > View the list's information and change your settings at > > > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > > > > > > __________ > > View the list's information and change your settings at > > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind