I just wish Microsoft would include accessibility and put the whole lot out of business. Personally, all this talk makes me so happy I jumped off the windows bandwagon in 2008. VoiceOver has treated me better and fit in to my work flow better which works for me but everyone is different with different requirements. I’m just glad I don’t have to worry about my access solution being discontinued. All that said, pending Microsoft entering the market and doing what they should have years ago I hope someone with quality products persists. Windows access is vital to us. It scares me one major competitor is disappearing. On 6/15/16, 9:50 AM, "Blind-sysadmins on behalf of Ryan Shugart" <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org on behalf of rshugart@ryanshugart.com> wrote:
As a Window-Eyes user, am I nervous? Absolutely. On the other hand though, the papers have been signed, AISquared as a business entity is no more, and there’s just not much we can do at this point. Do I have concerns? Yes. But, I don’t know what’s happening behind the closed doors, and in the end the market will shape out how it will shape out. A lot of people, myself included, have been saying the desktop screen reader market has needed a big shakeup for some time now. Well, we got it. Not quite what I was thinking but hey. For the moment we’re just in wait and see land, and things will fall as they will. I suspect this is probably just as much a shock for the devs on the JAWS side, and there’s probably as many questions going through their minds as on the Window-Eyes side. I don’t think Window-Eyes will continue as the product we know. But the same could be said for JAWS too, I have no idea what will end up happening but I predict it will be a change on both the JAWS and Window-Eyes sides. As for NVDA, I’m not sure there’s anything for them to be scared of really. I mean yes, there’s a big force now in the screen reader market, but my feeling is those who supported NVDA will continue to do so for the same reasons they always have, and NVDA will continue as a product just as it always has. And that is a good thing, it insures there’s still some competition out there. So my guess is it will be business as normal in NVDA land. And that’s fine with me. Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> on behalf of Darragh Ó Héiligh <d@digitaldarragh.com> Reply-To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 5:38 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Merger between VFO group and AI Squared.
AI Squared has been merged into VFO group. I'm sure you've heard at this stage.
So, what do you think?
Are those of you who use Window Eyes worried? Do you see the VFO group retaining both Jaws and Window Eyes?
I think this has the potential to be huge news. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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