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In Adobe Acrobat XI were is the option to add line numbering on the left hand side of the page for documentsI had, at that point, been at the helm of the FS software engineering department for six years but, as Lee Hamilton, then CEO of Freedom Scientific told me that day, I was, no longer capable of managing the team. He was right, I had burned out very badly and was in terrible physical and mental shape. My repetitive strain injuries RSI caused me constant pain and the Vicodin prescribed by my physician had too many cognitive side effects to permit me from having a clear enough mind to perform my tasks while the steroidal injections I received for the same injuries had intense emotional side effects that felt like I was on cocaine or methamphetimine. While my final few months at Freedom Scientific were a personal disaster for me and not too good for FS or its customers, I am very proud of the many things we accomplished during my six year tenure. During that time, Eric Damery, Glen Gordon and I invented a ton of new screen reader features now seen in all such utilities on Windows. What Did We Accomplish In my time at FS, six years ending in November 2. JAWS beginning with 2. JAWS 3. 3. 1, the first screen reader to add what is now the essential virtual buffer on the Internet in all screen readers to JAWS 6 the last JAWS in which I participated. In those release we added new and interesting features with each revision and pushed the user interface of screen readers forward every six months or so. In that period at Freedom Scientific we Invented the virtual buffer concept for delivering web information to JAWS users. Invented the idea of querying applications through a private interface to gather and present information to our users a concept used today in JAWS, Window Eyes, NVDA, System Access and Orca screen readers. Provided the first ever ways of reading charts and graphs in a major screen reader. Advanced usability of office suites in a way never previously seen in a screen reader. Invented the now ubiquitous QUick Keys style of navigating web pages more efficiently. Added the JAWS Speech and Sounds Manager for adding tonal augmentations to information, thus, expanding the number of simultaneous semantic dimensions enjoyed by users. Added features to intelligently skip beyond repeated information on web pages. Added features to recognize similar documents and spreadsheets and automatically apply a set of adjustments for reading the data. And many more innovations in screen reading user interfaces that you can find by looking up the Whats New sections of the release notes for these JAWS releases. Returning To Windows. I hadnt used a Windows computer or a Windows screen reader in more than five years but, recently have found that Voice. Over on Macintosh cant provide the level of support I need so, I downloaded and installed VMWare Fusion, Windows 7 and NVDA. Once everything was up and running, I started exploring this terrific free screen reader. The first thing I noticed was that NVDA has adopted many of the ideas that we invented in JAWS. I breathed a sigh of relief when I realized that, thankfully, most of our innovations happened before FS became crazy about patent applications and aggressive lawsuits so our most important ideas seem to have made it to other screen readers and its nice to see my work so widely accepted in virtually all Windows screen readers and in Orca on the GNULinux platform. I continued to read the NVDA documentation to see what new and noteworthy concepts have been invented in the nine years since I walked out of Freedom Scientific on that November morning. The first thing I found was a gesture based navigation system, a notion first introduced by Apple in Voice. Over for i. OS and adopted by NVDA first and, based on statements made at CSUN this year, will be added to JAWS this autumn. I looked further and found nothing new. I read up on JAWS, once the hands down leader in innovation and found nothing new there in many years either. So, in a decade, the only new ideas in screen readers have come not from a small, highly focused screen reader company but, rather, from a mainstream super power. Ted Henters prediction that big mainstream companies making screen readers would result in a failure to innovate seems to be partially true, Apple innovated at first but has allowed the OSX version of Voice. Over to deteriorate and they havent expanded on really good ideas that are present but incomplete but, contrary to his prediction, the smaller, blindness specific companies have done nothing new or interesting in years either. Was I That Important At Henter Joyce and, after our merger, Freedom Scientific, the best ideas came out of a collaboration mostly between me, Eric Damery, Glen Gordon and Joseph Stephen. Some of these ideas started as hallway conversations with other employees, phone conversations with beta testers, questions from our technical support staff and lots of other sources. I was usually the person who wrote up the ideas into a formal specification FS product managers seem to have some kind of innate aversion to writing anything down and, sometimes, I originated the notion but, by the time it became a task to add it to JAWS, the concept would have been thoroughly reviewed multiple times by Eric, Glen, Joe and, often, Ted Henter. Eric, Glen, Joe and lots of other smart and interesting JAWS users yes, although sighted, Eric can use JAWS with any power users out there remain at FS. I dont think they lost all of their creativity and ability to come up with new and valuable features for JAWS so what has gone wrong in the screen reader businessLeaders Who Are Blind. As far as I can tell, other than Mike Calvo, CEO of Serotek, makers of the System Access screen reader, I was the last blind person with direct authority over a commercial screen reader and, as System Access has never had a large user base, the last blind person with direct authority over a widely used commercial screen reader. System Access, in its hey day was a pretty innovative screen reader and Mikes influence as a user advanced features like their See Saw global dictionary for web sites, the end of Forms mode something Glen and I invented that wasnt the greatest idea, the first ever virtual screen reader and a variety of other excellent concepts. Ill contend that these happened in SA because it is a project led by a blind user of the software. Reexamining how we invented things at Freedom Scientific, I recall that, often, the best ideas came out of frustration. Joe Stephen wanted to read notes in braille different from the contents of Power. Point slides so we added the ability to have one stream of information go to the speech synthesizer while another went to the braille display. I got sick of making all of the JAWS settings just to read the FS financials on a weekly basis so we invented a way that JAWS could recognize different but similar spreadsheets and automatically apply the settings. We invented Quick Keys while Glen and I talked on the phone about single letter navigation in some emacs scripts. Most of our best ideas grew out of desires by actual users in our employ. Why Doesnt NVDA Take The LeadNVDA is an excellent free, no cost screen reader for Windows. Download Update. Star Update. Star. Download the. Double click the downloaded file. Update. Star is compatible with Windows platforms. Update. Star has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be compatible with. Windows 1. 0, 8. 1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2. Windows. XP, 3. 2 bit and 6. Simply double click the downloaded file to install it. Update. Star Free and Update. Star Premium come with the same installer. Update. Star includes support for many languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian and many more. You can choose your language settings from within the program.