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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 15:59:58 JST Aral Balkan

   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

   • Offbeatmammal (offbeatmammal@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 17:41:48 JST Offbeatmammal

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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/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 17:50:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Violet Bison 🦬

     @arkd It blows my fucking mind that these tools are not 100% funded by our taxes. wtf, capitalism, wtf!

   • Violet Bison 🦬 (arkd@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 17:51:00 JST Violet Bison 🦬

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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.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 21:29:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Violet Bison 🦬
     • projectmoon

     @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.

   • projectmoon (projectmoon@social.agnos.is)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 21:29:03 JST projectmoon

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     • Violet Bison 🦬

     @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.