[nfbcs] free windows screen reader (nVDA)

Joe Orozco jsorozco at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 13:56:24 UTC 2011


What TTS does it use?  I know there are better things out there than
Eloquence, but I'm ashamed to admit I've become something of a snob when it
comes to the synthesized voice I have to rely on to do work.  And, is it
going to last long?  I'd heard their budget was pretty low.

Best,

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of David Hertweck
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:04 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: [nfbcs] free windows screen reader (nVDA)

Has any one out there used the free windows screen reader NVDA.  I just down
loaded it, and I have been playing with it for the last 2 days.  The speech
could be a little better but it is quite impressive as to the level of
accessability it gives.
It comes with a talking installer.  Two types, one for installing it on a
computer and the other for a portable installation, that is installing on a
thumb drive that can be used on any computer.
Having a little vision that is I can see objects on the screen but can not
read them NVDA reads what is under the mouse thus making the mouse usable
for me.

NVDA uses a lot of the same key commands as JAWS so it is a quite familiar
interface.

For an open source free screen reader I highly recommend giving it a try.
For some applications it gives better access than JAWS.
So far I have tried it with the following and it gives super accessability.
Windows XP standered windows like control pannal and explorer
Office aplications word / XL ...
Outlook.
Internet explora lots of different web pages
Visual steudio 6
Dos prompt and python
My micro processor IDE code warrior
Winzip

Give it a try.


_______________________________________________
nfbcs mailing list
nfbcs at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nfbcs:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/jsorozco%40gmail.com





More information about the NFBCS mailing list