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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:43:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT shellworld DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Window-Eyes versus Jaws; speech output for blind people
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Transmission messed up on this end.  starpower.net has a bad firewall that
sometimes blocks me out completely and sometimes it's lowered a little so
I can connect.  When I wrote that last message their firewall was probably
on its way back up.  The thing about window-eyes is that it doesn't have
to be rebooted once daily whether or not anyone has touched the keyboard
or mouse.  jaws has that particular difficulty in business computing
environments where network administrators are constantly screwing around
under the hood.  The biggest reason to move to window-eyes is its set
files rather than the jaws scripts.  Most of the commands for the jaws
scripting language remain undocumented and known only to the developers of
that software.  Many people in the jaws user community if you talk with
them and ask them specifically about mirc will tell you it's not supported
yet because those in the user community knowledgeable with scripts haven't
written anything for it yet.  Window-eyes has been able to use mirc for
the past several years, I had it working myself on my home computer while
windows was still on it.  If office 2000 and windows 98se were both as
stable as window-eyes is, I probably never would have installed Linux here
but that just wasn't the case.  Finally, many organizations employing
blind people have it set as a firing offense if a user installs software
on their computer that wasn't installed by network administration, so even
if new software titles are produced unless they're home users of windows
they're not going to develop many set files for others to use.

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