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JAWS (an acronym for Job Access With Speech) is a screen reader, a software program for visually impaired users, produced by the Blind and Low Vision Group at Freedom Scientific of St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Its purpose is to make personal computers using Microsoft Windows accessible to blind and visually impaired users. It accomplishes this by providing the user with access to the information displayed on the screen via text-to-speech or by means of a braille display and allows for comprehensive keyboard interaction with the computer.… More Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | freedomscientific.com |
| Developer: | Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC |
| License: | Commercial |
| Price: | $895.00 |
| Version: | 11.0.729.400 |
| Rating: | Overall: |
| Usage: | 4 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes and 13 seconds |
| Usage since: | 02 May 2007 |
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It sickens me that a screenreader package can ignore there users and have such a stranglehold over the market. It's sad that one company can buy all the agencies and governments, and just make crap and get more money because they slowly catch up to the times. Adobe flex, air, ajax, 3 technologies that we as blind people can't use partly because of inexcusable slowness in update times. I mean no offence, just stating the obvius.
This is the virtual application window for virtulizing windows for jaws. Lol.
Jaws is currently my screen reading software of choice. However, it has several problems, including many bugs that have remained unpatched for over 3 releases, despite the cries of thousands of users everywhere. The developers tend not to listen as closely to user feedback as they should, and have been known not to work as closely with Microsoft as many other screen reader companies. Despite these serious problems, jaws is, for now, the best bet for full desktop access, as well as an advanced scripting interface. However, Window Eyes, and the open source NVDA screen reader are beginning to approach jaws in functionality, so things may change in the near future.