[Electronics-talk] nvda screen reader

[David Hertweck]

It seems to work quite well with internet explorer.  I do not see why it
would not work with others.


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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:25 PM
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Hi,

Can it be used with any internet browser?

Linda
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:04 PM
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>i love it too.  There's also a list for it at 
>nvaccess.org/mailman/listinfo/nvda-support
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> Date sent: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:45:38 -0600
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] nvda screen reader
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> 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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