HI Dark, Yes, i know. That was really my point. Winboard may be a very good Chess program, but if its only using Jaws then it is, sorry to say, not very accessible in comparison to alternative Chess programs. Jaws may still be the leading screen reader today, but Window-Eyes, state side, has caught up over the last few years and Jaws market share is constantly shrinking. Part of that is do to the fact Window-Eyes now has scripting support since 7.0, and of course NVDA has grabbed up a huge number of VI computer users who can't afford to pay out ragious prices for Jaws or Window-Eyes.I know I am personally looking at switching to NVDA for that exact reason myself. I simply can't afford to pay out for SMA plans right now.
The thing is the screen reader market is changing. Developers who arent' staying on top of that are bound to get requests like support NVDA, support Window-Eyes, support Hal, whatever because Jaws is losing the market shar they once held. Its time that devs start realizing that and beginning to support alternative screen reader solutions as I don't see Jaws ever gaining back the market shares they once had. Especially, since their business practices, sue happy attitude, has turned a lot of people against them. Cheers! On 8/14/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tom. > > Amusingly enough, this is actually what I said when dave made a similar > anouncement on audiogames.net. > > At that point he did talk about adding sapi support possibly support for > other screen readers as well, though whether this is going to happen I don't > know. > > What bothers me, is that the two other major accessible chess programs do > not have this limitation. > > both Kchess programs work with window eyes and Hal (and probably would with > nvda sinse the screen is fairly symple, pluss they have lots of voicing as > well), and Ian humphries bg chess works with sapi. > > Beware the grue! > > dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
