[blindlaw] Internship Problem

Arjun Malhotra malhotraarjun2012 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 18:25:52 UTC 2014


Another option for you is Windows eyes. Its free for MS office 2010
users, but you wont be having ETI eloquence.
Arjun

On 10/25/14, Michael Nowicki via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> It was WindowEyes; GW Micro used to offer a sixty day trial.
> Freedomscientific does, however, offer a demo, but it requires the user to
> restart his/her computer every 40 minutes in order for the program to
> continue to work.  Starting with JAWS 16, though, the company plans to
> introduce timed licenses, which will be valid for 90 days and will enable
> customers to pay for a permanent license over time if they so choose.  In
> other words, this will function similarly to the payment plan GW Micro used
> to offer for WindowEyes (I'm not sure if they still do now that they offer
> WindowEyes for Office.)  I hope this helps.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Angie
> Matney via blindlaw
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 3:57 PM
> To: Aaron Cannon; Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Internship Problem
>
> I seem to recall that FS used to make available a demo of JAWS that would
> run for a certain number of days, possibly for a minimal fee.
> But perhaps that was GWMicro and WindowEyes. Sorry, I don't remember the
> details, but perhaps you could contact FS and see if they could provide
> such
> a demo version. I do hope you are able to resolve the issue.
>
> On 10/24/14, Aaron Cannon via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> If you have until January, you should have plenty of time to learn NVDA.
>> It's really not that complicated as others have said, and in large
>> part, very similar to Jaws. You might even find that you like it
>> better. It does happen.
>>
>> Aaron Cannon
>>
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>>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:55, Rahul Bajaj via blindlaw
>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am scheduled to intern in an intellectual property firm next
>>> January. Even though I haven't discussed the modalities with them
>>> yet, a friend of mine who has interned there before told me that they
>>> are averse to the idea of allowing their interns to use their own
>>> machines due to privacy concerns and ask their visually impaired
>>> interns to install a copy of the screen reading software of his/her
>>> choice on the firm's computers. Here in India, most people do not use
>>> original copies of screen reading software because they're
>>> ridiculously expensive and beyond their economic capacity. As a
>>> result, most of us buy pirated versions of software like JAWS from
>>> organizations that sell them because there's no other way to perform
>>> any substantive or concrete task on a computer. Now, since the firm
>>> that I'm planning on interning at is an IP firm, they do not allow
>>> interns to install pirated copies of screen reading software on their
>>> machines. At the same time, they're not willing to purchase an
>>> original copy of the software for me just for the sake of a 4-week
>>> internship. One possible solution could be to use an open source
>>> software like NVDA, but I don't think it would be feasible for me to
>>> acquire a nuanced understanding of NVDA in such a short span of time
>>> since I have never used it before or that it would allow me to use
>>> some advanced features as efficaciously as JAWS.
>>> So, I'd love to know your views/ suggestions for grappling with this
>>> challenge. I want to be able to chalk out a clear solution before
>>> discussing this problem with the firm.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Rahul
>>>
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