[il-talk] Huge News from the world of Adaptive Technology

[Hansen, Robert A.]

According to Bill Reif, this would allow JAWS to have access to the 
Window Eyes arrangement with Microsoft.  This most likely will 
drastically improve things.  Reif and I came up with these possibilities.



On 6/15/2016 9:41 AM, David Meyer via il-talk wrote:
> There will still be some alternatives out there for screen readers. There is
> NVDA which is free, and System Access which can be had for a one time fee.
> Though I'm not familiar with what the price for System Access is now, it was
> around $400 when I purchased it. I wonder if this new arrangement will
> change the free offer for Window Eyes?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: il-talk [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Edward
> Birmingham via il-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:43 PM
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> I'm not a fan of no competition.  One company doing everthing does not bode
> well for affordable pricing.  This takes away the opportunity to shop around
> for the best deal!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: il-talk [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bill Reif via
> il-talk
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> VFO is a company that owns Freedom Scientific, the maker of JAWS, Optelec,
> and several other companies. AI Squared recently acquired GW Micro, maker of
> Window-eyes, and also owns Zoomtext. VFO now has acquired AI Squared. The
> wayw things are going, there may soon be one company that provides all
> access technology for the blind. I wonder whether this was a friendly
> aquisition, and whether Window-eyes development will continue.
>
> Cordially,
> Bull
>
> On 6/14/2016 1:22 PM, Mary Willows via il-talk wrote:
>> What is VFO?
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: il-talk [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ray
>> Campbell via il-talk
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>> Cc: Ray Campbell
>> Subject: [il-talk] Huge News from the world of Adaptive Technology
>>
>> All I can say right now is wow!  This is huge news from the world of
>> Adaptive Technology and at least for me, very unexpected.  I haven't
>> processed this fully yet to put my thoughts and opinions together on it.
>>
>>
>> AI Squared Joins VFO Group, read more here:
>> http://www.aisquared.com/news/ai-squared-joins-vfo/.
>>
>> Ray Campbell
>> ray153056 at gmail.com
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