[nabs-l] NVDA Questions

[Chun Chao]

NVDA does better with websites that has a lot of flash type content such as
YouTube whereas JAWS tends to stutter or freeze up.
It also does pretty well with MS Outlook, namely the Outlook 2007
application that I have.
>From my experience, JAWS does better on tables and spreadsheets such as
Access and Excel is because of the multiple types of cursors that JAWS has
which make table navigating faster.
Aside from that, I find both NVDA and JAWS to be quite comparable.

C.C. Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 12:53 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] NVDA Questions

 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


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