I know that we will never agree in terms of screen reader. It's like
clothes, it's a matter of taste.
And each person uses the computer diffrently with diffrent purposes and
diffrent applications etc.
I personally love NVDA and honestly it's my favourite screen reader.
I love the screen reader on itself, and I like the concept!
I think that blind people should pay for what they need in life just
like everyone else.
But the access to the computers is somehow diffrent because it involves
access to education and access to emploiment etc.
When you have someone who will employ a blind person and he or she knows
that he will have to pay more than one thousand Euros for allowing this
blind person working for me, he or she will probably think twice.
If you have a freeware screenreader, at least you have the option of
doing it otherwise and you have the possibility of employing a person
for no more cost than other workers..
A freeware screenreader opens a lot of doors for blind people all around
the world and remember that blind people are not only from rich countries.
Allthough you probably don't listen them much on this list, there are
blind people in a lot of countries in development.
And nvda opened the door to them to legally have access to school and work.
You will not ask schools in poor countries to pay more than 1000 Euros
for teaching blind students with computers don't you?
I don't care eif it's better or worst and even more, I think there is
space for everyone.
If you have a lot of money and want something extraordinary and
wonderful buy your beautiful jaws!
But others also have the right to use computers.
For me NVVDA does everything what I need and it's light, eficient and
suits all my needs.
If you give me a legal copy of others, I will stay with nvda because I
simply like it.
Allthough NVDA is not competing with comercial screen readers, I
understand why their sellers are nervous!
And my last point the people who most criticize NVDA, we know very well
why they do it and we also know what very often they do with comercial ones.
Cheers,
Jorge
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Em 28-01-2011 23:41, dark escreveu:
Just to add my point.
You can try out a demo of hal by going to www.dolphin.co.uk
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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To: "Dean Masters" <dwmast...@earthlink.net>; "Gamers Discussion list"
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Windows screen reader software?
and then there's system access, which is also free which you can run
by going to
www.satogo.com
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Windows screen reader software?
You can try demos of JAWS by Freedom Scientific and windoweyes by
GWMicro.
And there is the free NVDA screen reader.
Dean
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:07 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Windows screen reader software?
| Hi folks,
|
| My apologies if I bring up a question that has already been
discussed to
| death, but I don't see anything about this in a casual browsing of the
| archives.
|
| At first I thought I didn't have any screen reader software, so I
| couldn't test the accessibility of my RSW website directly. But then I
| realized that every Mac has VoiceOver built-in, and it's quite nice!
| I've been going through my web pages with VoiceOver, and I've found a
| number of minor issues that I'll be correcting.
|
| But I'd hate to fine-tune my pages to VoiceOver's quirks only, without
| knowing about similar quirks in other software. In particular, what do
| Windows users typically use to browse the web? I see that Narrator is
| built-in to Windows, but it's almost unusable. Even Narrator itself
| recommends users buy a third-party program instead.
|
| So, if I were to purchase one such third-party program for the purpose
| of testing my website's accessibility under Windows, which program
| should it be?
|
| Thanks!
| David
|
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