[nabs-l] NVDA Questions

[David Andrews]

 From people who I talk to, and they do know what they are doing, 
NVDA on the web is apparently quite good.  It has improved with 
Microsoft Word, and is ok in outlook, e-mail good, calendar mostly 
doesn't work.

I don't know about Powerpoint or Access.  If you are a heavy Office 
user, you are probably better off for now with JAWS, although all 
these things are moving targets.

Dave

At 08:27 PM 11/8/2012, you wrote:
>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