[GUI-Talk] New JAWS and ZoomText Annual Home Licenses Now Available Through The Freedom Scientific eStore

[Mike Arrigo]

This is basically software as a service, similar to what Microsoft does with Office 365. It may be helpful to those who can't afford to pay the entire price of the software up front. Of course, it's still not as good as what the Mac offers, a full featured, built in screen reader at no extra charge with no restrictions on how many computers you can use it on. Hopefully Narrator will be there some day and paying for any screen reader will be a thing of the past, for many users, NVDA meets this requirement.

> On Nov 1, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Curtis Chong via GUI-Talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> 
> 
> I am pleased to pass along some exciting information about new annual
> licenses for JAWS and ZoomText. With these new annual licenses, blind or
> low-vision computer users in the United States now can purchase ZoomText
> Magnifier/Reader or JAWS for as little as $80 or $90 (respectively) per year
> without paying hundreds of dollars up front. Instead of spending $400 for
> ZoomText, $600 for ZoomText Reader/Magnifier, or $900 for JAWS , you can now
> shop online and pay as little as $80 a year for ZoomText Magnifier with
> Speech or $90 a year for JAWS. You have the option of purchasing options for
> one, three, or five years, and as long as your license is current, you will
> always receive the most up-to-date version. You will not have to pay any
> more to obtain new versions of ZoomText Reader/Magnifier or JAWS as they are
> released. Moreover, you will be able to run these programs on up to three of
> the computers you use, and if needed, you can temporarily remove the license
> from one computer and activate it on the computer of a friend or family
> member whom you may happen to be visiting.
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> 
> Admittedly, this is not that significant for those of us who have already
> spent the money to purchase ZoomText or JAWS licenses. However, for folks
> who have not purchased these programs because of the hundreds of dollars
> that they cannot afford to spend, or for folks who have avoided paying
> maintenance charges to keep their software current, this is a really big
> deal.
> 
> 
> 
> The ZoomText or JAWS annual home licenses are currently available only
> through the Freedom Scientific eStore at
> https://store.freedomscientific.com/. Here, you can search either for "JAWS
> Home Annual License" or "ZoomText Magnifier/Reader Home Annual License".
> 
> 
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> 
> 
> Curtis Chong
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