That's the excuse I hear, so why doesn't window-eyes ever have that problem?
They figured out a way around the problem. If you are alt-tabbing between
open windows, to stop and maximize a file list every time you want to use
it, is very inefficient.
For efficiency window-eyes aught to be able to be minimized to the system
tray, like jfw can already do.
We are competing for speed of production with the sighted world. Be it at
work, in traffic handling, or contesting.
To be equal we often have to be better.
No it's not fair, but it is what it is.