[gui-talk] Fwd: Discussion about Screen Readers on tomorrow's Attitude Test

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    Chrissie Cochrane chrissie at theglobalvoice.info
 To:      whats on whatson at theglobalvoice.info

On this week's Attitude Test, we will, as usual take a look at the news and 
put our distinctive slant thereon, all ready for you to disagree with if you 
want to.

The main subject this week concerns screenreaders.

The simple question, though with, I feel some complicated answers is:  are 
we witnessing the demise of the stand-alone screenreader such as JAWS and 
Window-Eyes?  With Apple now putting a screenreader in many of their 
products as a standard part of their system, is this the way things will go. 
Is there much left for the major screenreader manufacturers to do?  A new 
version of JAWS is coming soon, but most of what has been done in this new 
version are fixes to existing problems.  Could it be that Microsoft may well 
decide to incorporate one of the major screenreaders into their own 
products?

We want your views on this.

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Let your voice be heard on the Attitude Test, on the one and only Global 
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Chrissie
Managing Director; the Global Voice
www.theglobalvoice.info

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