Who paid for your screen reader?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Another variant for that survey should be:
Did you, or someone else pay for your screen reader??

I've used Jaws in demo mode (for 40 minutes before restarting the computer)
for a few months.
I've used Connect OutLoud in demo mode that talks for 9 minutes and sleeps
for 1 minute, but it works only with a few applications.

I've noticed that they are interested  in the blind community all around the
world, that's why I made this comment.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:48 AM
Subject: Who paid for your screen reader?




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Colleagues:

Our friends in the U.K. are conducting a very strange survey. I
expect some of you might want to tell them the same thing I just
told them about paying for screen readers. Such quaint ideas.


Janina Sajka, Director
Technology Research and Development
Governmental Relations Group
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ruth.Loebl at rnib.org.uk


I've checked - Jerry is interested in responses worldwide, not just in the
States. I'm not a member of Access-UK list but someone might forward the
message there (here come either 10 duplicates on the Access-UK list or it
doesn't get forwarded at all!)
Ruth

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Richer [mailto:jerry at ChirpingBat.Com]
Sent: 19 May 2002 14:59
To: techno-l at LISTSERV.NAS.NET
Subject: Who payed for your Screen Reader?

Hello:

     I'm trying to get an idea how many screen readers are payed for by
their owners and how many are payed for by someone else..  This is a
marketing research project for myself but I'm sure many of us would be
interested in this information as well.  I have an idea that the
overwhelming number of screen readers are payed for by some governmental
agency but I've never seen any quantitative data on this.  I'm really only
interested in the screen reader that we use right now as our primary tool
and perhaps another that we use for specific applications.  I myself use
Vocal Eyes, Jaws, and Window Eyes.  I payed for Window Eyes myself which I
use most often and some governmental agency payed for the other two.
     Please feel free to respond by email but for the sake of anonymity I've
set up a web site with a form to complete.  It's very short, having only
four radio controls and three edit boxes.  The form is at
http://www.ChirpingBat.Com/whopayed.html

          Jerry
          jerry at ChirpingBat.Com, 1-518-359-8538

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