2026-11-04 15:50 UTC
Okay y'all I don't get it. Some one makes a few old video games accessible, uses NVDA to speak. User comes on and is like well since it doesn’t work with JAWS, it isn’t accessible to everyone. And then some one else is like well NVDA is free. And then dude comes out with well since I paid for my screen reader, I should be denied access? And y'all I just don't get it. Like what the crap man. How is a free screen reader denying you access? I mean it's free. Everything's freaking free. What? NVDA is $0. JAWS is $100 a year at *least*.
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@aedan@serrebiradio.com 2026-11-04 18:40
@pixelate@tweesecake.social in the 90's blind protectionists made sure we paid them for developing jaws instead of working with Microsoft to make their free screen reader better. This is probably just jaws people wanting things exclusive for them. They seem to want respect for the fact they were forced to pay a bill when Microsoft wanted to make our prospects for employment better by not manufacturing a financial burden for us. It's great open source software is taking some of the power of greedy gatekeepers away.
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@NicksWorld@mastodon.stickbear.me 2026-11-04 17:31
@pixelate@tweesecake.social To be fair, they could use the prism libraries. Just have Claude use them in its development, that way, games can also work with jaws too.