[nabs-l] nvda and system access outperforming jaws for college class

[Josh]

Hi

I'm taking an online class, free one week seminar online to see how the screen readers perform with blackboard and the online classroom. 
my ratings:
system access 100%
nvda 95%
jaws maybe 10%
ok lets do scale from one to ten. 10 is best 1 is worst. 
system access: 10
NVDA, 10
jaws, 3

its kind of amazing that two free and very very low cost screen readers are outperforming jaws11, bigtime! I just might run the latest knopix-adriane distribution in a vm to see how that works with the online classroom. but any Linux distribution with the orca screen reader should yield similar results I just like knoppix because its easy to use and you don't have to be a linux expert unless you want to be in which case it lets you do that also when you are ready. 


Josh Kennedy jkenn337 at gmail.com
my blog is at http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net (updated frequently). Tired of Microsoft Windows and paying thousands for screen-readers? try out NVDA, get a mac--, nvda--for Windows, or try out and switch to grml, Ubuntu, Vinux, or knoppix-adriane Linux desktops. Knoppix ubuntu and vinux-cli-max are the most accessible for beginners. also try vinux-gui and encourage those at www.cherrypal.com to use windows-xp and nvda knoppix-adriane Vinux-cli-max or grml so all blind people can have an accessible computer.