[Electronics-talk] nvda screen reader

[cheez]

some of the PC's at my  job use NVDA.
It sounds okay.  I still prefer JAWS, though.  I'm the only one running it
Be sure to type in a text editor, the phrase:
"Want to play a game?"
Sounds just like the computer from the movie Tron.
Vince

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hertweck" <david.hertweck at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:45 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] nvda screen reader


> Has any one out there used the free windows screen reader NVDA.  I just 
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> loaded it, and I have been playing with it for the last 2 days.  The 
> speech
> could be a little better but it is quite impressive as to the level of
> accessability it gives.
> It comes with a talking installer.  Two types, one for installing it on a
> computer and the other for a portable installation, that is installing on 
> a
> thumb drive that can be used on any computer.
> Having a little vision that is I can see objects on the screen but can not
> read them NVDA reads what is under the mouse thus making the mouse usable
> for me.
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> NVDA uses a lot of the same key commands as JAWS so it is a quite familiar
> interface.
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> For an open source free screen reader I highly recommend giving it a try.
> For some applications it gives better access than JAWS.
> So far I have tried it with the following and it gives super 
> accessability.
> Windows XP standered windows like control pannal and explorer
> Office aplications word / XL ...
> Outlook.
> Internet explora lots of different web pages
> Visual steudio 6
> Dos prompt and python
> My micro processor IDE code warrior
> Winzip
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> Give it a try.
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