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JAWS turns 30 this year!

We are kicking off a year-long celebration marking 30 years of JAWS®, the world’s leading screen reader! Since 1995, JAWS has empowered people who are blind or have low vision with greater independence in work, education, and daily life.

Join us at CSUN 2025 to look back at JAWS’ evolution and learn what innovations are coming next, including:
- JAWS for Kiosk
- PictureSmart AI
- JAWS Inspect

Read the full announcement: vispero.com/vispero-announces-…

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Vispero Announces Year-Long Celebration for JAWS 30th Anniversary

Vispero® Announces Year-Long Celebration for JAWS’ 30th Anniversary, Beginning at CSUN 2025 Three Decades of Empowering Independence Through Accessible Technology FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Clearwater, Florida – March 4, 2025) – Vispero® is pleased to an…
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Kevin LaRose, #SlavaUkraini

@Bruce @DavidGoldfield I have a memory of seeing pin-on buttons like you see in campaigns at the #ACB convention in 1988 festooned with Braille labels that said #JAWS on them. Job Access With Speech. Of course FS wasn’t around at the time, the company was Henter-Joyce, maybe? Anyway, I know this might be seen by some as annoying hairsplitting, but I think what is being celebrated is the 30th anniversary of JFW, JAWS for Windows. But, as I always say, my memory could very well not be as sharp as I think, and I do reserve the right to be wrong.
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David Goldfield

@Thumper1964 @Bruce No, you're right. What is being celebrated is the 30th anniversary of the JAWS for Windows screen reader, not JAWS in a general sense. I don't know what year JAWS for DOS was released. I came to it later in 1991, when v2.14 was out. I respected it for its macro editor, which anyone could use. Yes, the name of the company was Henter-Joyce.
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David Goldfield

@Bruce @JohnGassman Artic's screen readers were ones I had heard of for years but I never owned a license for them and never got a chance to use them. They did seem to have a lot of users back in the day. The DOS screen reader landscape definitely had more choices than what we have now. Many of those programs never made the transition to Windows.
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