[blindkid] Jaws vs Window Eyes

[Jody Ianuzzi]

Jaws I used Jaws for years  but I got discouraged by its limitations and poor customer service. I switched to window eyes years ago and I am totally delighted by the software as well as the company's customer service support. 

I have no idea why agencies preferred but there really should be an option for users to be able to pick which program they want

JODY 🐺

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."  DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)

> On Jan 24, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Himanshu Neema via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> It is my understanding that for a heavy user needing a lot of scripting for customizing his/her braille reading, Window Eyes has the most advanced scripting capabilities. For example, an accountant and a lawyer has a very different reading material to go through and both have a lot of their own domain dependent short hands, symbols, and acronyms. But, for regular users JAWS is probably more than enough. Furthermore, school/college systems nationwide are mostly using JAWS. But as a blind child/person, you can choose which screen reader you want to use, just like you can choose which cane you want to use, just like the way sighted can choose which eye-glasses they can wear or which hearing-aids they will use. I hope it helps.
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> Himanshu
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>> On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Marianne Denning via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> You can set up Window Eyes so it functions like JAWS.  JAWS takes
>> advantage of all of the Windows key board commands that are built into
>> Windows.  Window Eyes has different commands unless you set it up to
>> be like JAWS.  It would depend on how you use your computer to know
>> which is the better program.  Since it is free you can certainly put
>> it on your computer and play around with it.  You could switch back
>> and forth between the 2 screen readers.  NVDA is also another free
>> screen reader.
>> 
>>> On 1/23/15, Traci Wilkerson via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Curious, since Window Eyes is now free, are the commands similar, ease or
>>> non-ease of use the same as Jaws?
>>> 
>>> Wondering if Jaws is really all that or just more touted in the VI world.
>>> :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks much!
>>> 
>>> Traci Wilkerson
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>> Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
>> Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
>> (513) 607-6053
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