[nfbcs] NVDA for work

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

In general, Window-Eyes does not use any authorization scheme within the United states.  However, I don't know if 
there is an authorization link of some kind established between Window-Eyes on a Citrix server and the one on your 
desktop.  My impression is that there is not, but I have never done it.  While I am pretty impressed with NVDA, 
there are still cases where JAWS and Window-Eyes work and NVDA does not work.  I also don't know if it has the same 
kind of support for Citrix that Window-Eyes and JAWS do.  It may, but you have to have a way to get the speech 
generated on the Citrix server by the screen reader back to your desktop since the speech isn't displayed on the 
screen.  In other words, if you tell the screen reader on the Citrix server to speak the current ling, nothing 
changes on the screen.  The speech generated has to get back to your desktop somehow and this involves some extra 
logic.  As I say, maybe NVDA does this, I don't know, but one can't assume it does.

Since NVDA is free, if I were you, I'd give it a try on the software you use to see if it will work for you.  I use 
an old 3270 emulator and NVDA does not work with it while JAWS and Window-Eyes do.  Of course, there are most 
likely 3270 emulators that it will work with.  NVDA did not work with Lotus Notes the last time I checked although 
I read that they were trying to address that.  My point is just that there are still some differences.  I find NVDA 
to work pretty well on Microsoft Office applications, though.

Good luck.


Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 7 May 2015 13:40:11 -0400, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:

>Mike S, are you using NVDA for work?  I would be very interested to hear
>generally what you do, and how NVDA is coping.  Are you, for instance, using
>Citrix?
>Please write me at carcione at access.net.
>Thanks.
>Tracy


>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sedmak via
>nfbcs
>Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 12:05 PM
>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>Cc: Mike Sedmak
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Live Meeting, Adobe Connect, Webex

>I can only comment on live meeting, and from my experience it is not
>accessible.  By that I mean that content shared by the presenter comes
>across as an image, not something that NVDA can interact with.

>Mike


>On 5/7/15, Cathy via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I use WebEx at work, when we have meetings, I join by phone. There may 
>> be a dial-in number you can use for that.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On May 7, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs 
>>> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, already the instructions on how to join the class and download 
>>> the materials aren't even accessible.  This doesn't look good.  It 
>>> appears to be a page scanned into a pdf, and is too blurry to read 
>>> with Jaws OCR or even my Optacon.  Multi-zillion dollar company, and 
>>> they can't even make a decent pdf. Off to find someone who can read 
>>> the d--- thing.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>>
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