I was quite excited about this as I’d now be able to pay just $90.00 (a bit more with local sales tax) to immediately upgrade from my old license to a new, shiny JAWS 2019 license. With the release of JAWS 2019 FS (now part of Vispero, formerly VFO Group) announced that subscription packages would be available for some of their software packages, with JAWS being the first. With products such as Office offering a subscription model with their Office 365 packages I really wanted to see Freedom Scientific offer a similar package to its users. When I left ASB and began working at Comcast as a member of their accessibility team I was able to continue using JAWS with a current license, which is always kept up to date.Īs I continued to use and learn more about the newly added features introduced in each annual update I began to encounter features which JAWS had added but which were not available with NVDA. New versions of JAWS continued to be released and I kept up with what was added. It continues to offer some nice features and benefits not found in JAWS and, for my needs, I found it to be more than satisfactory.ĭuring this time I was working as a trainer for Associated Services for the Blind where the agency kept their license of JAWS up to date.
In the summer of 2009 I began using NVDA exclusively on my home computer and was very happy with it. Later I began using NVDA and discovered that it was quite a nice screen reader. After I left the company I bought my own license but I let it expire while running version 6. During those two weeks I had the pleasure of unboxing, installing and learning JFW 1.0 while I was recovering and really liked the software. In January of 1995 I had to have my tonsils removed and was out of work because of this for two weeks.
When JAWS for Windows, or JFW as it was sometimes called, began to ship Blazie received a copy right away. In addition to producing products such as the Braille ‘n Speak and Braille Lite, Blazie Engineering was also a distributor of many third-party products, such as screen readers and speech synthesizers, and the company had been selling JAWS for DOS when I first began working there.
I didn’t purchase it at that time but the product came out while I was working for Blazie Engineering in the 1990s. I had initially been a user of the JAWS screen reader since version 1.0 began shipping.
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