Who paid for your screen reader?

[Alex Snow]

Or "How long were you in ddebt after buying your screen reader?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: Who paid for your screen reader?


> 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?
>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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