[blindlaw] Internship Problem

[Michael Nowicki]

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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