[blindLaw] Does anyone have NVDA and JAWS on their computer

[Howard Adelsberg]

I have both



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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 12:49 PM Shannon Dillon via BlindLaw <
blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have both NVDA and JAWS on their computer? I have a ton of
> files to review that are pdfs. They are not very accessible. Words all
> run together without any spaces, for example.  And when I ask my
> assistant if she can tell what is accessible, or what I can or cannot
> read, she says NVDA reads all the stuff to her but I tell her JAWS
> won't read it.
>
> Generally, I need JAWS because I need it to manage track changes and
> because I know all the editing keystrokes to check for font and color,
> etc. But for this particular project, I don't need track changes. I
> just need to read a ton of files and I don't have time to go through
> each one to tell my assistant why it is or is not accessible and how
> she should make it accessible.
>
> Does anyone else have these kinds of issues? And does anyone else have
> NVDA and JAWS on their computer? I'm thinking of putting NVDA on just
> to read these files and see if they really are accessible with NVDA.
>
> Shannon
>
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