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

[Peter Donahue]

Hello everyone,

    Can you run the same comparisons on Microsoft Office and other commonly 
used applications for which scripts have had to be created for JAWS and 
other screen readers to interact with them? This to me is the real test of 
whether or not screen reading software could be developed for far less the 
cost of the conventional screen readers. This is my counter challenge to 
developers of low or no-cost screen readers.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jedi" <loneblindjedi at samobile.net>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] nvda and system access outperforming jaws for 
collegeclass


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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