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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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@talon @jscholes And yet, at least in my experience, NVDA is the screen reader with the fewest number of these sorts of bugs. Apple isn't interested in fixing anything; they have fifty new features to ad to voiceover. Jaws needs to add AI everywhere to justify making the software a yearly subscription, and have started regularly just listing bug fixes as new features to justify a new major version. Narrator gets one or two new features a year, and maybe a bug fixed every once in a while. And if NVDA doesn't add stuff like this, people will complain that they're falling behind. Honestly I hope they can add extra optional AI features like translation, image description, cloud preferences syncing, etc, as a subscription feature, to make NV Access a bit of money. The NVDA Spanish guys are doing it right with a paid subscription to access their LibreTranslate. The model also seems to work for ZDSR and jieshuo: offer a free screen reader, with subscription AI addons. In all of these cases, the payment and licensing infrastructure is awful. But NV Access could get this right, and hopefully unlock a funding model that isn't just begging for donations.