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

[Howard Adelsberg]

I have both, and i have NVDA free. I do not know if there is a technical
person to call. did you check their website?



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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:08 PM Shannon Dillon via BlindLaw <
blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Thank you both for responding. And thanks for offering to check out a
> documents for me, too. I may take you up on that if I can find one
> that is not confidential. It is an enforcement issues so you know how
> that goes with investigations.
>
> I have a follow-up question. Do you have problems with having both on
> your computer and do you just avoid telling Freedom Scientific you
> have both on your computer? In the past they have asked me
> specifically if I have NVDA on my computer when I call for technical
> assistance.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Shannon
>
> On 5/5/20, Tai Tomasi via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > I have both JAWS and NVDA on my computer. If you have one that is not
> > confidential that does not read well with JAWS, I am happy to test it for
> > you with NVDA to see if that would resolve your issue.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Shannon
> Dillon via
> > BlindLaw
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:48 AM
> > To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Shannon Dillon <shannonldillon at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [blindLaw] Does anyone have NVDA and JAWS on their computer
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > SHANNON L. DILLON
> > Secretary and Legislative Coordinator
> > National Federation of the Blind
> > of California
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> of California
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