Re: Is NVDA the best free screenreader?
@OP, because it's not the case that every person has to jump on every new piece of tech as soon as it comes out.
I saw this same question posed when NVDA first made it's entrance so many years ago. Why are people still using JAWS?
The answer is that we do this for the same reason not everyone had a smartphone as soon as one came out, and why not everyone was using Chrome and immediately dumped Firefox when Chrome came out.
It takes people years to switch. For many of us, switching screen readers is akin to switching OS's. How quickly do you think people would happily switch from Windows to Linux and then two years later to some mix of the two, when they've been perfectly happy on Windows for years?
I think switching screen readers isn't seen as the challenge it actually is. Microsoft realized this. This is why they changed their keystrokes to resemble those of JAWS and NVDA. Back when Window-Eyes existed, GWMicro introduced a JAWS keymap to make Window-Eyes as similar to JAWS as possible... and they still lost the market share.
Remember the days when the Mac screen reader was the new hot thing? Look how that turned out for them in the long run? Voiceover is hardly getting any updates now, whereas NVDA has a dedicated team of developers not focused on hundreds of other softwares and to whom a built-in screen reader is just "cute."
But in the end none of that matters. Like how at the end of the day customers don't care what software you use to build your fancy new website, as long as it works; rather, it's because screen readers differ enough to where most people (especially those in the upper age range) don't have the time and patience to switch screen readers just for bragging rights.
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