Hi Rishi Bhaiya, I start by saying that I have been a Jaws user for a quite long time, starting with Jaws 3.7. What is the nature of the job and what MS Office applications you use, my answer depends on that.
Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint, Link, and advance office apps can be best experienced with Jaws, as work for the same is in progress as far as NVDA is concerned. The apps are definitely usable, but Jaws offers you additional features which makes it better to use these apps with Jaws. The switch from Jaws to NVDA is not at all difficult, give me one day of yours, I can guarantee you quick transition. Jaws is still the most versatile screen reader no doubts about it, and although the new versions are not offering anything exceptional now-a-days, but since it has been developed for so long, therefore it still holds a good leading position in the market in terms of its powerful features. It is also worth mentioning that the new apps or operating systems work with Jaws during the initial phase after its launch, as Freedomscientific being market leader is able to work with commercial giants to make their products usable with Jaws by getting early access. For which, NVDA depends on availability of developers version to come out and its developer community to work on those apps or operating system. I am myself an advance screenreader user, and quite frankly apart from OCR of Jaws, I do not turn it on at all, at least till Jaws 17 comes out, which claims to offer better stability. Why I do not like advising to go for Jaws now a days is Freedomscientific's technical support standards which are going down day by day. The U.S. support does not offer international telephone support which I would expect from any company if I pay a price, but here we have to interact through distributor channel with the company. Which increases the response time, problems in understanding and resolving the issues, among others. Although, I can say at least for Karishma Enterprises, that they are quite open, willing and positive to work with if you need to find solutions to your problems. It just takes time. I as a person need quick solutions to my issues whenever time demands, and I cannot wait for 24-48 hours to get my issues solved over an e-mail. I rather pick up the phone and call the supportline directly. Which is what is missing in Freedomscientific. Even if you manage to call their staff and say that you are an international user, their behavior is rude and pathetic (the most decent words I can think of). Many of my e-mails by the development team and product manager have remained unanswered. My best advice to you is that give yourself some time with NVDA, use it, and given that you were living with old version of Jaws till date, I cannot think of reasons why NVDA will not be able to suit your needs. And if you were to still make your mind to go with Jaws, then please wait till Jaws 17 comes out, Jaws 16 is a definite dead investment looking at the basic performance issues. To sum up everything: Jaws offers you features which will make use of your apps perhaps quicker which is the only reason to pay the price, and NVDA offers you the capacity of using and working with apps as they exist, without adding the layer of features to make the usage more quick (although it has all intermediate features which other screen readers have like links list etc). Drop-in a line if you need more speech! Warm Regards, -- Amar Jain. Website: www.amarjain.com Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
