Re: [orca-list] Important: Web accessibility survey for screen reader users, situation in South Africa

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
I am afraid the situation in South Africa is no better than elsewhere.
People cannot afford the Windows/JAWS setup, but they seem convinced that 
they require it.
NVDA is gaining ground though.
I see a lot of this attitude as we are trying to bring a GNU/Linux-based 
note taker product to market.
"If it is not using Windows, it won't work in my environment." seem to be 
the main idea.
for those interested, look at http://www.sa-note.com

I also completed the survay under discussion, and simply do not accept the 
excuse of not listing all the screen readers available to simplefy 
matters.
The results would therefore be scued by design.
Kind regards, Willem



On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, _mallory wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 02:53:20PM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> > Their devotion to Windows is due to a series of factors.  Here's my educated guess:
>
> Also, many people get their first screen reader and possibly first
> computer as a combo in school, where Windows is often default. This
> is also why JAWS is still big, it was something an institution/company
> who wanted to hire blind people would just buy as part of the deal.
>
> I'm sure what you get started with is a big influence: eventually
> you're most productive there, and you generally need some reason
> to switch.
>
> So an employee of a client of ours had to do just that, because his
> company uses our software which includes a client written in GTK.
> He's still most productive in Windows and I believe he's simply
> using a VM to run a *buntu so he can access the client in Orca.
>
> _mallory
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