[Electronics-talk] nvda screen reader

[Walt Cone]

The speech could be a little better but there are 2 openware speech 
synthesizers on the NVDA web site that aren't bad.  Give them a try.


On 3/4/2011 4:03 PM, Dornetta wrote:
> Hello David:
> How or where would I get a copy? I have heard about the screen reader 
> but since I am a JAWS user, I never tried it but you have perked my 
> interest<downloadable flash drive version.
> Netta
> "Just because you are blind, does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hertweck" 
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> To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'" 
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> Subject: [Electronics-talk] nvda screen reader
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>> Has any one out there used the free windows screen reader NVDA.  I 
>> just down
>> 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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