Hi Anina and all,
Everybody's going to jump on me, but anyway...
It's true that Jaws is expensive; so is Window-Eyes. On the other hand, the reality of life is that open source just isn't very popular as far as the desktop is concerned. So you can get lots of free software, but the employers are likely to be as resistant to embracing a whole new operating platform as they are to spending relatively large amounts of money.
The server is one area where open source (which for practical purposes means Unix and variants) is widely used, so the combination of brltty for braille and any of the speech packages (Speakup, emacspeak by whatever capitalization, YASR) should give much more stable performance. I've used Jaws for more than 8 years and, especially in braille, find it a struggle compared to Linux. So if you find an employer who's already into Unix, you've got it made (relatively speaking at least). But in terms of general office work etc. you might find it harder to find employers you can mesh with. Never can tell, though; if you meet an employer right when they're thinking of switching away from Windows, you might luck out.
Now watch the fur fly...
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