Or "How long were you in ddebt after buying your screen reader?" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxx> 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 > > - > > NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is > confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the > intended recipient you are hereby notified that you must not use, > disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email's content. If > you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender > immediately and then delete the email and any attachments from your > system. > > RNIB has made strenuous efforts to ensure that emails and any > attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses. However, it > cannot accept any responsibility for any viruses which are > transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. > > Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email > and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of RNIB. > > RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 > > Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk > > 14th June 2002 is RNIB Look Loud Day - visit http://www.lookloud.org.uk to > find out all about it. > > > - - - > To unsubscribe from this list send a message with subject or body > 'unsubscribe' to bcab-request at cs.man.ac.uk > > The BCAB website is at http://www.bcab.org.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
