Post An3fM15VPdglsSmY0u by Offbeatmammal@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #An3XwXblBIPzWqm3A8 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2024-10-16T06:59:43Z
       
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       Folks, JAWS is a screen reader. Should be free. Isn’t because, hey, isn’t capitalism just wonderful?Please help Mendi out here if you can.#a11y #accessibility https://mastodon.stickbear.me/@Mendi_Tech/113313569659952965
       
 (DIR) Post #An3ZFpc2Z5K2pDfRKK by arkd@mastodon.design
       2024-10-16T07:14:19Z
       
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       @aral Recently I attended a11y training run by a blind person (in Poland). He told us that the prices also differ depending on the county and that the license for JAWS in Poland is... 1000$ + about 120$ every year. That's shitload of money. Yes, there is a government funding (not sure if covers 100%), but still. Apparently, there are alternatives (like Apple's reader or open source NVDA), but JAWS seems to be the best one, preferred by users.
       
 (DIR) Post #An3fM15VPdglsSmY0u by Offbeatmammal@mastodon.social
       2024-10-16T08:22:45Z
       
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       @aral need more folks to help work on NVDA to help it replace JAWS in more use cases https://www.nvaccess.org/
       
 (DIR) Post #An3hqairggDuzbtnJg by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2024-10-16T08:50:43Z
       
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       @arkd It blows my fucking mind that these tools are not 100% funded by our taxes. wtf, capitalism, wtf!
       
 (DIR) Post #An41JAmf6Wri4X18Bk by projectmoon@social.agnos.is
       2024-10-16T08:52:11.053Z
       
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       @aral@mastodon.ar.al @arkd@mastodon.design I am not entirely surprised or necessarily opposed to a good screen reader costing money. It's basically a medical device, and those cost money to create. What would make a lot of sense, and maybe is done some places, is to subsidize it via prescription.
       
 (DIR) Post #An41JBvYqvZtcQBkhM by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2024-10-16T12:28:45Z
       
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       @projectmoon @arkd We have a lot of money. Sadly, most of it is being spent on killing machines to murder Brown people on the other side of the world. Making screen readers free would be a rounding error in public spending.