My girlfriend is a big supporter of NVDA she likes it for the same reasons you have stated, it seems similar to jaws, it is easy to use and best of all, it is free.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:28 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS and NVDA Hello everyone. I'm curious to hear from people who use, or have used, both jAWS and NVDA. I know this is the JAWS users mailing list, and I don't want to start any arguments over which screen-reader is better or anything like that, but I feel that this is still a valid topic for discussion here. I'm just curious to know how others feel about these two products, one of which happens to be free and open-source; one of which happens to be a commercial product that is not always available to everyone at all times. Case in point: I recently had a job interview where a test was required; they could not get jAWS running on their old test computer system at all, not even the demo version, so nVDA was my only recourse. Prior to that time, I'd only used NVDA briefly on an ex-girlfriend's laptop, mostly for playing music. So, all this was pretty new to me and to say the least, I was very nervous. But it turned out to be a breeze: NVDA in fact does seem to behave very similar to jAWS, which I find very interesting. Now I'm once again in a position where I may have to be using nVDA for work. So I decided to install it at home and really delve into it; see how it works. I'm not getting rid of, or abandoning JAWS; it is a good product and, after all, I paid for it, even if I received a discount to do so because of my previous employment. So far though, I'm finding that there isn't really any learning curve at all, or not much of one; it's as though the developers created the software with JAWS users in mind, and indeed, I suspect that to be the case. So, for those of you who use (or have used) both products - what do you find to be the major differences? I'm guessing they mostly involve specialised application support, as in for example Microsoft Office, Firefox, Chrome and so on; I'm aware that FS at least worked in tandem with Microsoft and Mozilla to develop JAWS support for these applications. So far though I've used both Outlook (admittedly only Outlook 2010) and Firefox, and although spoken feedback is somewhat different, both seem to work extremely well with NVDA. Again, I'm not looking to replace JAWS. Just curious to know if others have had similar experiences to mine. Maybe some people don't find NVDA to be a viable alternative, for whatever reason; if so, definitely pipe up here as I'm curious to know why. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
