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

Jedi loneblindjedi at samobile.net
Mon Mar 15 23:00:16 UTC 2010


Could you give us a more detailed review of what sA and NVDA can do 
that JFW can't?

Respectfully,
Jedi


Original message:
> 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.
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