"Ken Springer" wrote

| Right now, the annual subscription rate for a home user, for JAWS, is
| $80/year. I don't know what any of the previous rates were. So far, I
| wouldn't use JAWS unless you are truly blind. On a current Mac, the
| voice over also does something Braille, and if I understand that
| correctly, there's some kind of monitor(s) out there that offers
| physical Braille output. I have no actual idea how it works.
|
| I tried running both Narrator and JAWS at the same time, but they talk
| over each other, damned difficult to understand which program is saying
| what. So at the moment I don't know if your comment about JAWS working
| better with MS products is still true or not.
|

I had never heard of Narrator but it turns out it's been
pre-installed since 2000. I tried the version on XP but
it's very limited. I've written more involved software myself.
It only names the window on top and narrates key presses.
So unless it's far more involved in Win10 it's of little value.

I don't know about Narrator in Win10. What I meant about
JAWS working better with MS products was that things like
IE and MS Word have historically had better support for
accessibility than 3rd party software. For instance, the IE
DOM and browser window access programmatically allow a
webpage to be walked and described by software. That kind
of thing is available in other browsers only from within the
webpage.