[nabs-l] NVDA Questions

[Gerardo Corripio]

  Brandon and listers: NVDA does have a multilingual featuer, but 
depends on what voice you use. AT least on the Eloquence specific to NVDA
http://is.gd/kcE6pU
by going NVDA+v, you can select either l for Latinamerican. a for 
American English.
Gerardo
El 09/11/2012 10:32 a.m., Brandon Keith Biggs escribió:
> Hello,
> I use both, the only reason why I use Jaws still is because I am 
> constantly using Jaws scripts for products that NVDA would never 
> support. I've also not the time to write dictionary's for NVDA like I 
> have with Jaws. I also use the multiple language switching feature in 
> Jaws constantly, so that is another thing NVDA doesn't have to my 
> knowledge.
> Admittedly I don't have
> training on NVDA like I do with Jaws, but what I have found is that 
> NVDA is awesome except for the above.
> I do know people who swear  by system access though, but I've never 
> used it.
> My mom, a TVI is looking to switch over to NVDA for her students 
> instead of Jaws because of the huge cost of maintaining Jaws for both 
> the school and the student's family.
> I say go with it! Just make sure you change that voice!
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message----- From: Nimer M. Jaber, IC³
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 7:47 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] NVDA Questions
>
> Mauricio,
>
> You are a consultant for access and you charge for services however
> you do not know the differences between JAWS and NVDA. First, NVDA and
> JAWS both read tables in the layout that you choose, depending on how
> you have the web layout set in both of their options. Object
> navigation will not read every single thing that the JAWS cursor does,
> but this is imaterial as you aren't normally having to use the JAWS
> cursor or the NVDA cursor in Microsoft apps. And Window-Eyes is
> definitely not cheaper than JAWS, unless you're talking about JAWS
> professional, and window-eyes web browser support lacks behind JAWS
> and NVDA both, or at least did before version eight came out, although
> it's a bit better now.
>
> Ok, that's all I have to contribute. I would give NVDA a try, I would
> ask lots of questions, I am one of the moderators on nvda's list on
> freelists, and there is also a support list for NVDA that can be found
> by accessing nvda-project.org and going to the community link I think.
> I would try it out and if it works for you, great. If it doesn't, then
> it doesn't.
>
> On 11/9/12, Gerardo Corripio <gera1027 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Hi Ariel and Listers: Definitely a bit of a learning curve especially
>> in the equivalent of Jaws cursor (In NvDA is called Object Navegation)
>> but other than that, it's nearly the same as Jaws; Oh and also a
>> learning curve in that when going to a form field, you have to do Enter
>> to get in; other than that it's nearly the same; same basic commands
>> using the Caps lock key plus down arrow to read all, Caps lock key (also
>> called the NVDA key) plus up arrow reads current line.
>> The NVDA keyboard help and manual found by going to NVDA+n to reach the
>> NVDA menu, are very helpful and welll done! Good luck!
>> El 08/11/2012 08:27 p.m., Arielle Silverman escribió:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I apologize if these are dumb questions to ask, but I know nothing at
>>> all about NVDA and I am wondering what your experiences have been with
>>> it, how it compares to JAWS in terms of compatibility with basic
>>> Microsoft applications and what the learning curve is like to
>>> transition from JAWS to NVDA. I have been a consistent JAWS user for
>>> the past twenty years and I have generally been happy with JAWS, but
>>> recently I have been feeling kind of disappointed with the Web browser
>>> support in Windows 7 and I am also getting tired of paying for JAWS
>>> upgrades, so I am considering switching to NVDA. I need a screen
>>> reader that works smoothly with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Web
>>> browsers but not much else (though SAS support would be nice too).
>>> What are your suggestions? And if I already know JAWS commands, is it
>>> a big switch to go to NVDA?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Arielle
>>>
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